#Historians

Stories.Assam

AssamStories

The ‘#AssameseScript’ and its similarities with the Bengali counterpart has been a matter of serious debate. So, how did the Modern Assamese Script evolve? - A Thread.1/n The #Assamese script

Brooke Binkowski

brooklynmarie

Completely on brand. No editorial decision in this case is an editorial decision. @Facebook cannot have it both ways -- their brand of "free speech," quietly guided and shaped by

Mark Robertson

calhistorian

You know what I think most people don’t realize, is that historians job is to argue. We tell stories, true,. But the stories themselves are implicit arguments against or in

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

I suspect statements like this sound fairly familiar to you if you've been listening to conservative media or politicians lately. "Those closed-minded, totalitarian Marxist professors who dehumanize those they disagree

Right Singh

rightwingchora

This Thread is long but about one of The greatest king of our history which many of us don't know.Rajendra chola is the only king not only conquered other places

Anecdotist

CapitalistRumi

Malalai da Maiwand (Cultural Legend & Myth)History THREAD“Malalai da maiwand” was real? Or just cultural fiction?When u Google “Malalai da Maiwand”, U will almost see a very plagiarized article written

Monica H Green

monicaMedHist

Okay, since @KevinMKruse now seems to have given his imprimatur to this piece in the @washingtonpost today about #nCoV2019 & past plagues, it seems time for a mini-thread about #medhist

Ruchika Sharma

tishasaroyan

The kind of destruction that never gets talked about in popular historical discourse in India is the temple destruction wrought by many rulers in the subcontinent much before Islam entered

Sana Nakata

TeachingSana

I’m so angry. We’ve set the conditions once again so that the philosophers, lawyers, art historians, film critics, sociologists, political scientists are more likely to herald from a white, landed

Elysabeth Grace

Elysabethgrace

A bit late but it's been somewhat hectic. When RTs or notifications re historical studies about Black people and early modern England cross my TL, I find it difficult to

Monica (has a marvelous time ruining everything)

MWindzy

Making historical dynastic family trees was supposed to be fun but instead I just spend hours raging about the rampant incest in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid families. If anyone is

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Where do we even start with this? Humanities have been saying this for a long time. Historians encounter imagined pasts at every step of our work and have offered multiple

Filmon Zerai

EritreaStruggle

What's a "Muslim Habesha" ? How does that even apply here? Abysinnian call everything HabeshaThe moon is HabeshaMeanwhile back reality the Abysinnians were Islamophobic historically & Muslims in Ethiopia have

T. Greer

Scholars_Stage

So a few thoughtshttps://twitter.com/MarkLutter/status/1381597765432659970 When it comes to ancient Chinese texts, we are actually in a boom of translation. More has been done in the last 15 years than the

Sam Hirst

Samuel_J_Hirst

Question (in thread form) about race and Orientalism in the USSR: At the recent #aseees2019 conference, I was struck by the audience's laughter. For example, an art historian pointed out

Enver Paşa

lordvug

Spread itIranian-armenian partnership is more than Anti-Turkish alliance-armenian diaspora promotes and lobbying Iranian interests in the West-Iran promotes armenian interests in the Middle East and Asia-"armenia" helps Iran to de