#History

Paul D. Miller

PaulDMiller2

This rings hollow unless it's accompanied by a recognition of, and repentance for, how we got here. Trump's defenders, like Mohler, defended, justified, and explained Trump till now but draw

Tinu Abayomi-Paul

Tinu

Or a Black person. Because, you know, history. Hernrietta Leakes. Tuskegee. The mutilation of enslaved Black women to create the field of gynecology. Ongoing neglect of us. Textbooks that still

rhod chang @SHUOYUE1994

quigonejinn

this is why I quit watching Sleuth. no shame to those who love it, including lots of other Chinese diaspora folks I know, but the treatment of non-Han ethnicities in

Arash Davari

adavari21

Sometimes academic disciplines talk past each other & miss relevant conversations in adjacent fields. This thread is for the Middle East & Iranian Studies folks who may have missed this

Jo 🥀

letmegoslow

So apparently petitions that haven’t been signed on the official Uk government website won’t be considered for debate in parliament, so here is a thread of petitions to sign on

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: August 9, 1910. The first patent for the electric washing machine is issued. Let's use this as a jumping off point to explore one of

Charles Louis Richter

richterscale

Physicians should have chosen a word that wasn't already in use by doctorate holders if they wanted a super-special, exclusive honorific. Love how the FACTS AND REASON crowd ignores the

Truth and Art TV

TruthandArtTV1

TRUMPS TRANSITION SPEECH - Interpreted by Truth and Art TV Translation Machine [in brackets]: [1] "“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election [due to the obvious

Timothy Wilcox

PreCursorPoets

The sonnet form remains very much in use and is well esteemed.We can look back to Shakespeare's as one of the heights of not just poetry, but English literature overall.

RRC Suds

SudsG4

There is this trope that the Japanese and Germans conducted barbaric experiments on humans and the oh so civilised British didn't. Well, they were just as barbaric as the others,

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

Swedish mortality update:I've plugged the actual 2020 result into my spreadsheets.Result: all-cause mortality is just 3% worse than 2018, and is better than all years prior to 2014.They won't acknowledge

Dean Bakopoulos

DeanBakopoulos

White liberals like to do a lot of their work in communities of color, but this election has shown us that white progressives have the most work to do in

Jamie Merchant

pathtopraxis

Thanks to everyone who read & responded thoughtfully to this. It's a (very rough & condensed) summary of a chapter in a book I'm working on, so it leaves out

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

dont talk to me

earthgirls_r_ez

history with laetitia: blackbirding in the 1860s white australians kidnapped thousands of melanesian islanders to supplement the burgeoning sugarcane industry, its unlikely we'll ever know how many islanders became victim

Neil Meldrum

MellyCopy

#afcb: A thread… I was lucky enough to cover some of #afcb’s finest moments, but also some of their worst failings… 2002: The side that was relegated at Wrexham

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