#1920s

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) What we mean when we say, “It’s about race” (and sexism and homophobia and fear of difference)In response to my thread on Trump-GOP-Russia love, @barryszuul, says, like c'mon, we're

Jaipreet Virdi

jaivirdi

Welcome back for another episode of #DeafHistorySeries ! Nicknamed “Queen of the Mountain,” American archaeologist Theresa B. Goell (1901-1985) spent thirty years searching for the resting tomb of Antiochus I

Daily Suffragist

DailySuffragist

Later this fall I’ll tell the story of Addie Hunton confronting Alice Paul in 1921, asking Alice to invest in winning the vote for Black women too. +How Addie spent

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

I recently asked my audience: What is the most genius marketing campaign of all time?I got 2,000+ responses.THREAD: 20 of the most iconic marketing and advertising campaigns in history: De

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Timotero2

Fascist Italy – Thread 1/3Heroic Capitalism (1922-1932)“The factory is the typical expression of industrial capitalism; it is the period of large profits, and therefore the law of free competition and

Mori

moritheil

Correct. And all of this goes back to how people were called cranks for correctly foretelling in the 1910s that ice cream parlors would be the decay and ruin of

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sharanvkaur

There's been a lot written about 'brownface' in Singapore in the last week. Conversations mostly seem to go like this: "Hey that shit is offensive.""No, it's funny.""But it's like blackface."

Peter C. Cook

petercook

The media brought their preconceived notions and biases to the #Amazon union fight (all the while parroting the union's talking points) without actually asking the *workers* themselves what they wanted...

Kat Olivera

_kolivera

1/ @ICEgov secretly performing hysterectomies on immigrant women isn't a divorced issue. The US has an ominous history of performing coercive services on communities of color with women of color

Nils Gilman

nils_gilman

A lot to digest in this @samuelmoyn piece on the political dangers of the misuse of historical analogy, especially an overly promiscuous use of "the political F-word" (fascism) to contextualize

Kreidy Giantsbane

kreidy_b

Welcome to episode 508 of #Outlander , which is officially the worst episode of the season so far. If you haven’t watched it yet, you may consider yourself lucky and

Tim Dunn

MrTimDunn

I have been asked an interesting question. Why does London’s Moorgate tube station have a mix of “traditional” bar-and-Circle roundels... and weird diamonds? Well... (1/6) The Metropolitan Railway, or “the

Thee Rural AfroTexan

DaLyahJ

Speaking with Dr. Roberts was really inspiring and insightful. I wanted to take a moment to highlight many of the different causes the work of the Freedom Colonies Project is

Groyper AlvaradoSpawn

laenorca_stille

Early 1930s-1950s photoshop. A thread concept of double exposures, blended backgrounds, and foreground and background blur were highly developed Magnify original image and then do pixelated blur was also achieved

Liz Crash

AsFarce

Many of Footscray’s most interesting buildings were designed in the 20s and 30s by Jewish architect Joseph Plottel. the history of these buildings gives us a fascinating window into local

Alex Bean

ABeanTweeting

As promised/threatened last night, I have found the Wikipedia page for capitol buildings around the world and will share my thoughts on their architecture. I'll start with the obvious, the