#Historical

Aaron W. Gordon

A_W_Gordon

At the risk of wading into the debate about whether a private car-free Manhattan would be good or bad for people with disabilities, it's worth remembering some cities have already

Adam Kotsko

adamkotsko

Slavery was a world-historical crime unique in human history and uniquely severe and persistent in the United States. The Civil War was initiated by the South in order to maintain

RDCEP

RDCEPorg

Two centuries of energy transitions in one animated graphic: see how U.S. energy use has changed from 1800 to today using our interactive Sankey animation at http://us.sankey.rdcep.org . 1/x#EnergyTransition #EnergyPolicy Our

Glenn Butner

glennbutner

After some mild push back on my wording in yesterday's thread on if the Trinity is in the Bible, let me ask a different question: How is the Trinity in

Nick Dennis

nickdennis

Huge thanks to @bain_bob and the @OERProject #OCforSS #OCSS2020 for the live session earlier. Glad all the technology ran smoothly! Just wanted to add a few things that history teachers

Bradly Mason

AlsoACarpenter

To be clear, Marx's economics were crap, his specific brand of historical materialism was crap, and he was wrong in almost all of his explanations and predictions. (This is why

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

Medievalist here. So GOP Senator Loeffler's new ads claim she's "more conservative than Attila the Hun" & joke about killing "liberal scribes." Obv from a historical viewpoint, this is just

Sacha Coward

sacha_coward

What's the biggest historical misconception that gets your goat?Mine is that there was a set of non-overlapping ancient civilisations that went: Egyptians, then Greeks, then Romans. Like they were isolated

Jed Shugerman

jedshug

This thread on Doug Jones as AG raises problems of the modern Crony AG model, as opposed to what I’ve called the Professional or Politico model - at precisely the

Patrick McKenzie

patio11

My colleague @hazelcough was in charge of some pretty major changes to the Stripe Payments API. I really, really love the writeup; it touches on how we matured in our

Dr. Audrey Truschke

AudreyTruschke

Now that we have a real President again in the US (President Elect Biden), let me turn to something bothering some folks --How I usually talk about the Mughals vs.

Harel Jacobson

VolQuant

One of the biggest flaws in financial time-series analysis is looking at the data as a function of time. Obviously it's the easiest way to analyze data, as we can

Dr. Karin Wulf

kawulf

Much as I love an origins story rooted in the awesome power of the William & Mary Quarterly, this essay is problematic in at least 3 ways and in how

yung📉walken

as_a_worker

reminder that the Progressive movement has been, since the 19th century, a middle-class program of ‘moral uplift’ and paternalistic legislation on behalf of what they saw/see as the poor, unhygenic,

César Febres-Cordero L.

CaesarAemilius

Even when a cause is righteous, bad things, terrible crimes even, can be commited in its name and that is why some many “great” historical leaders have been afraid of

Jake Walker

Jake_W

Public history/memory thought here: I have no love for the Confederacy, but at the same time, I think one of the reasons the Edmund Pettus bridge holds such significance as

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