#Historian

David Roberts

drvolts

One of the greatest mistakes America ever made was failing to utterly crush the South after the Civil War -- dismantle its power structures, imprison its leaders, expressly disavow its

Jules Gill-Peterson

gp_jls

I’m not a fan of the cis-trans binary as a style of categorization and thinking for a lot of reasons. But as a historian? One big one: It has never

brandon proia

brndnpr

The news out of Mississippi this week was bad. I have worked with Garrett for years, through editing his first book and working on books to prison initiatives more broadly—I

Matthew Stiegler

MatthewStiegler

There's growing willingness to acknowledge the ways in which Trump's work of building and clinging to power resemble Hitler's. Good.But this week the history that keeps flashing in my mind

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

Ancient West African kingdoms Arts._Ancient West African were skilled potters and metalworkers. Some of them worked with brass, woods,bronze and gold which explain their history. Potters in the kingdom of

ameya tripathi change.org/RemoveClive

ameyatripathi

PLASSEY THREAD:1/13 TODAY marks 263 years since the Battle of Plassey. But the statue of Robert Clive says very little. So what happened? We at http://change.org/RemoveClive were joined by historian

Joseph Ricci

josephricci24

On December 7, 1941, USCGC Taney was on station in Honolulu, Hawaii at Pier 6. Other Coast Guard vessels in Pearl Harbor were the 190-foot buoy tender Kukui, two 125-foot

Bharadwaj

BharadwajSpeaks

Thread.Recently, Harsimrat Kaur @HarsimratBadal_ claimed in parliament that Guru Tegh Bahadur protected the religion of Hindus despite of being a Non-Hindu. And Hindus owe a huge favor to others.In this

Rabbi Sara Zober BLM

RebbeSMZ

This year, for Black History Month, I'm going to highlight some of my favorite Black accounts here on Twitter that I follow and why I think they're making history today

Ada Palmer @🏡

Ada_Palmer

Recently, I saw a thesis adviser mark points off a history student's thesis for including a 19th c 2ndary source in bibliography. So while one needs to be careful w/

Incunabula

incunabula

The greatest treasure looted from the Ethiopian people at Maqdala in 1868 isn't in the BL or V&A. The Kwer'ata Re'esu, the most sacred icon of the Ethiopian people, was

Stephen Maher

stphnmaher

I talked to Mi'kmaq historian Daniel Paul today about Sir John A, told him about the Tantallon school changing its name. Paul, 81, author of We Were Not the Savages,

Pax Christus

paxchristus0

I recently found a series of excellent, thought-provoking speeches by historian Donald Livingston on how the conception of America changed post-Civil War from a 'Jeffersonian' view where states held dominance,

Greg Jenner

greg_jenner

The biggest influence upon public understanding of the past is TV drama - not books, docs, radio, or podcasts. Telly Drama. Occasionally huge films, and maybe video games. So, here’s

Pallando the Blue

KomninosM

"The Alemanni have their own traditional way of life, in matters of goverment and administration they are identical to the Franks. They differ, however, in the matter of religion, for

Usman T. Malik

usmantm

BITING THE BULLETYou have heard the term, but you don't know where it comes from. (Thread)In the mid-1850s, the British introduced the new Enfield rifle in India with its infamous

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