#1860s

Morrighan, A Sexy Haunted House

MorrighanCorbel

Okay, so as many as you know, a few years ago I picked up this book at a London antiques fair. It's a lovely book of mostly English and Scottish

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

HC_Richardson

The recent disinformation campaign against New York's new abortion law reflects the takeover of the GOP by radical Movement Conservatives in the 1970s. It's a story not about principle, but

Michael J Barany

MBarany

There's an aspect of this 2+2 thing that I think is really important and that has generally been overlooked, so you know what that means:(thread) WHAT IS ACTUALLY *RACIST* ABOUT

Ashley T. Rubin, Penal Scientist

ashleytrubin

Okay, I've been wanting to write this post for a while, so here it goes: prisons+jail reform has a LONG history with disease. Let me explain.... 1/n Before I go

Ashley T. Rubin, Penal Scientist

ashleytrubin

Now is a great time to remind folks about how we released people in the past to keep the prison population under control. See this study by Shelly Messinger and

Archbishop Gigas 🇧🇸🇵🇷

BahamaPapa_

**Thread on Straw Plaiting in The Bahamas** The modern straw plaiting industry in The Bahamas is believed to have gotten its start as a result of slavery.African slaves, when forcibly

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Today, let's take a tour inside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem & see some of the shops & buildings around the turn of the 20th centuryPhotochrom of the exterior of the

Pasquale "Pat" Scopelliti

ThyConsigliori

29 May 2020 #MAGAanalysis How Guilt Spreads - Racism, Mobism, and Understanding the Perpetrators.It is impossible for a fair-minded soul to fail to see the victim. I believe that George

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

For #WorldHeritageDay, a thread on the houses on top of the Temple of EdfuInspired by @malfy_c, I decided to find out what happened to them.(Image from Description de l'Égypte, vol.

Siddharth Misra

sidart_misra

Thread: How Bombay became the epicenter of Parsi commercial and cultural activity; how they laid the foundation of modern Bombay. Been earliest to enter Trade &

Ceteris Paribus

entropied

Julius Jeffreys (1800-1877) was a British army surgeon and a prolific writer who spent a long time India . He invented the respirator and developed some of the early air

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

Thread with excerpts from “The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia” by Peter Hopkirk Central Asia Napoleon’s plan to invade India by land with Russian help frightened the

Schuyler Mansion

SchuylerMansion

Let's continue learning about the Hamilton children! This week: James A. Hamilton.James Alexander Hamilton was born in New York City to Elizabeth Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton (both below) on April

Summer Brennan 🌈

summerbrennan

Naturally I am obsessed with the fate of Manet's Chez Tortoni in Netflix's This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist.Being me, though, I'm nearly as curious about who

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

Thread:A lot of white people were shocked to learn about the bombing of Tulsa from HBO's "Watchmen" while most black people are familiar with the bombing of Black Wall Street.Even

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Nthapeleng__

The Timbuktu Syllabus part 8Social Defeat How Black SA men became violent (Crime, GBV, Rape) Before European settlement, tribes had scuffles that lasted a few hours.Seldom was life lost in