#History

Lara Logan

laralogan

Abolitionists have gained more ground in the mainstream political arena in the last few months, than the last few decades. Their view as laid out in the book below is

Raffi Melkonian

RMFifthCircuit

History side-note moment: I read this 1776 report. I'll leave to others the various errors and whatnot. But it is a singularly bad piece of writing. Like how I wrote

Emily Rutherford

echomikeromeo

Haven't read the book yet (excited to!); can't resist noting how this fits in influence of Oxbridge model on UKHE. As @william_whyte has shown C19 foundations eager to distinguish selves

नेहा श्रीवास्तव (Nehā S)

neha_aks

The biggest con that the colonized elites of India play on the ordinary people is maintaining the pretense that their imposition of colonial ideas on others is stating the “objective”

Pasha Babayev

babayevsky

1/ Reading a paper on conflict transformation in Nagorno-Karabakh and interviews with students from Mesrop Mashtots University (MMU) in Khankendi/Stepanakert from 2009. The views are bizarre and clearly heavily influenced

Marshall Steinbaum 🔥

Econ_Marshall

oh no what will we do without price theory (possibly the worst course I ever took, in retrospect) Oh my god this article is a amazing—a treasure trove for me

Civil War On This Day

CivilWarOTD

The Battle of Nashville commenced #OTD in 1864, as forces under General George Thomas attacked the positions held by John Bell Hood’s troops outside @NashvilleTenn. #CivilWar Hoping to draw troops

Marina Rustow

mrustow

Joins: two fragments of the same manuscript that time and entropy have pulled asunder, and modern scholars have matched, like Aristophanes’s soulmates. 2/They can be housed in different libraries, or

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

"There is an American Gestapo on the ground in Portland. We have secret police in unmarked vans kidnapping protesters and whisking them away to threaten and abuse them. The Trump

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

While I don't have a position on @Peter_Turchin's theories overall, I do think that the idea of reducing immigration in order to raise wages makes no sense. Data shows immigration

Justin Thee Stallion

by_justin

A small thread of things you might not know are linked to racisms Yale University was named after a slave trader.https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-college-formerly-known-as-yale-1470698364 While we're talking about these institutions:

James Bessen

JamesBessen

Some people claim there is no systemic discrimination in the US. Our new paper https://ssrn.com/abstract=3628729 finds that a recent policy change reveals how much institutions have been perpetuating pay inequities.

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

A thread on Amílcar Lopes Cabral, a nationalist leader, and founder and secretary-general of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, who helped lead Guinea-Bissau to

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

One trend that infuriates me, I often see in academic & political polemics is to call X state not a true Y, like ’democracy’, &/or that X state or cultural

Dr Elsa Panciroli

gsciencelady

Hugh Miller, the Highland writer, stonemason & palaeontologist, held racist views in later life. This @BBCHighlands article has a few things wrong though, so let me give you the real

Rogan O’Handley 🇺🇸

DC_Draino

(Thread)There’s a small part of me that believes SCOTUS threw out the Texas lawsuit to boost their credibility for future election cases that may benefit TrumpTrump appointed 3 Justices, all

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