#History

Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷)

JoyAnnReid

Donald Trump echoes our worst presidents in so many ways. And since El Rushbo has us talking secession, let's examine one of them, who Trump will likely eclipse in the

Darin J. Dorsey

darinat0r

(1) I'm hoping that this Black History Month, folks make a commitment to invest long term in learning Black History from a multitude of sources. This means not just reading

Cathedra Mea Regulae Meae

RegulaeMea

Dear @befeqe Thread 1It's important to learn from history of the world that fascists NEVER win. They wreck havoc. They kill (Oh boy! do they know how to kill?) But,

Prakhar Raghuvanshi | प्रखर रघुवंशी

overbreadthh

A thread of books read in 2020. I managed to read 53 books. You can find some legal non fiction, philosophy, biographies, memoirs, economics, political theory and a little bit

Dr. Chelsea Gibson

gibsoche

One of the most meaningful things I did was have students interview someone who was alive on 9/11. I got SO many responses about how they learned things they'd never

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

wmnjoya

So, Kenyans. We need to update our definitions of racism, surely. The last time Europeans talked of Africans having savage cultures was in the early 1900s. Before my parents were

Neil Flanagan

jg_bollard

10 Buildings I haven never gotten out of my head. 1. All Saints, Margaret Street. Westminster, London. William Butterfield, 1859. Hearty on the outside and inside, a level of sophistication

Aesthetic Distance

aesthdistance1

Filipinos, esp Fil-Ams, should be very aware of the miseducation of the Philippines that has affected our upbringing and even the way we bring up the next generation ourselves. /1

Zeyad el Nabolsy (زياد النابلسي)

ZNabolsy

My take on the “cancel Aristotle debate”: what people are really demanding is a way of teaching the history of philosophy in a way that takes the sociology of philosophy

snav (escarpment)

qorprate

whenever i see ppl discussing Lasch's "Culture of Narcissism" on here, they always make a show of decrying the narcissists, but they never address his central claim:the "narcissism" of today

Dr Hanne (not that type of doctor)

StandingHannah

So @maej43 & I have been chatting. All year I have been thinking about a research project where I got access to an unpublished diary of a solider turned academic

Paul Nadeau

PaulJNadeau

Good thread, but I’d add that more important than studying conflicts is understanding the biases and preferences that underwrote how those actors approached those conflicts, which means studying political theory

Historical Firearms

historicfirearm

Some screen shots from the 1970s vintage 'Shoot To Kill' British Army marksmanship video. The phrase 'Shoot To Kill' was first used in British Army films just before #WW2. #History

c0nc0rdance

c0nc0rdance

In 1887, a group of white plantation owners formed the Committee of Safety in Hawai'i. They hired an all-white militia (the Honolulu Rifles) and forced King David Kalākaua to sign

All Catbirds Are Beautiful

remygryph

Before u go around criticizing ppl who use weed, MEDICINAL OR RECREATIONAL, you need to realize that the reason there's such a stigma against a plant like this is literally

reapersun

reapersun_art

There's a specific thing I'm very salty about in the H/annibal fandom where months ago a bunch of new fans created a barrier between them and older fans and now

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