#Memorials

Daniel F. Baranowski

DFBHarvard

The American Civil War. Most Confederates didn't own slaves & weren't fighting for slavery. They fought for a fundamental 19th Century American principle, "States Rights"!When Lee surrendered to Grant, there

Cultural Recall

CulturalRecall

One of my favourite memorials is up at home on the Moors. Robbie Leggott and Alfie Cockerill were shepherds on the Gisborough Estate. They travelled to London to join the

MatzahBloc

MatzahBloc

We’d like to take some time to respond to concerns we have seen in our comments. A thread:[1/25] We don’t find Twitter to be an appropriate platform for having these

Cultural Recall

CulturalRecall

I’ll start remembrance threads with an explore of my home town Ripon North Yorks.Despite change the population has stayed steady between 13k-17k from 1860s to the present day.A Cathedral city

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

This a useful reminder that in 1994, the year of the great GOP ascendancy of Newt Gingrich, several states across the South instituted official Confederate History Month.https://twitter.com/ajc/status/1357509430947020800 Six years later,

Stephen T Casper

TheNeuroTimes

More broadly, the historical profession as a whole, and humanities generally, have relegated disease & disease history to a bad story about the way the past used to be. So

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

The Fourth of July is the perfect time to talk about statues, the absolute madness and hypocrisy of MAGA and Trumpism, and how American history has been weaponized into mythological

Blake Brown

RBlakeBrown

In 1991 Alberta was shocked by news that a 15-year boy had killed four family members with a legally-owned .22 calibre rifle. Killed were Susan Mandin (age 41), Maurice (46),

QAgainstCensorship🇫🇷🇺🇸

q_against

Thread about the greatest manipulation of mankind. Satan has been fooling mankind since Day 1. It has always been about the hexagon, therefore Saturn. The rings of Saturn basically BEAM

Shem Horne

Shem_Infinite

Two things stand out from this statement from the CBP. One, the federal agents didn't "kidnap" anyone, they arrested a rioter. Two, the President's Executive Order he signed last month

Stephen T Casper

TheNeuroTimes

Secondly, it is abysmal that the medical humanities and medical historians have (a) not had their expertise used more concretely as part of our strategy and (b) that STEM leaders

Dr Laura McAtackney

LMcAtackney

Ive just spent two days bringing together a presentation on how injustices can get ingrained into place in Northern Ireland. It focused on the memorialization of the Ballymurphy Massacre and

Covid-19 RIP

covid19rip1

As often as I can, I retweet memorial posts written by friends or family of those who died. These are the voices I most want to elevate, so their stories

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kristoncapps

The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park was funded entirely by freedmen and women. They should have gone with Harriet Hosmer's design — which would have showed Abraham Lincoln flanked by

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[QUICK THREAD: HAUNTED BY GANDHI]1/10There's a reason this street in Chicago is named after Gandhi, not Godse. 2/10There's a reason this Rotterdam Street is named Gandhistraat and not Nathustraat. 3/10There's

Docs4SafeCycling

Docs4Cycling

An increasing number of @cityoftoronto Councillors have joined others who've been long-time advocates for separated bike lanes. What's frustrating are those who'd rather stick to ineffective half-measures that are actually

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