#American

Molly McKew

MollyMcKew

Thanksgiving is a day of survival and rebirth. It is Lincoln's day -- and the best American holiday.It’s been my tradition to explain the history of Thanksgiving to my foreign

Noble

Lost_Pause_

SJW Twitter: "Uzaki chan is so unrealistic! We need to fix her!"Meanwhile american cartoons be like: "OMG NOBLE HOW COULD YOU DO ED EDD n EDDY LIKE THIS!?"Calm down. I'm

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

I wrote this in April: "Anyone who reads my tweets probably thinks of me as full of rage at this moment, but the main feeling I have when I wake

Charlotte Rosen

CharlotteERosen

Mrs. America falls into the trap of a lot of hist scholarship on American conservatism & right wing: in an effort to “understand” or “complicate” or “typologize” the right they

Sri Thiruvadanthai

teasri

A thread about David Engerman's book, The Price of Aid. Lots of archival details and interesting history on how the Cold War competition played out in aid politics in India

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

America was founded on both the concept of the government deriving sovereignty from its people and legalized white supremacy.Now, with Trump threatening to mass murder black Americans, we're watching a

National Museum of American History

amhistorymuseum

In the early U.S., samplers were often part of girls' educations. Sewing them helped girls learn to read, write, and reason. You name it, they sewed it. But samplers were

Ra 라뱌 🌞

rleeiaa

i dont really get this barrier that y’all put up between colonialism and imperialism because colonialism is just the second phase. Imperialism is the building of an empire, and there

Octavia Butler knew...

NotNikyatu

Was discussing non ADOS as ADOS representation in cinema with a brilliant friend and she said something along the lines of:"I just wish they would stop framing legitimate Black American

Ash Milton

miltonwrites

Thought I would do a thread on this. So here we go: China, Carroll Quigley, and the civilization of capital.https://twitter.com/StephenPiment/status/1264284185138614273 The great American historian Carroll Quigley wrote a book called

$DOGE TO $2 ❤️🚀 (69 IQ)

cryptunez

what are some weird european dynamics that an american would never know about?like do italy and spain have beef, does everyone make fun of ppl from the U.K. for eating

KimChiForthewin⁷

ForthewinC

Now that I've completed a thread on Joonie and how I'll support him no matter what.I will now begin a thread talking about all the reasons I may never get

The Ice Age ❄️

Jamie_Woodward_

Giant sloths in South America excavated ENORMOUS tunnels during the Pleistocene. These remarkable megaburrows preserve the claw marks from the beasts that engineered them. More details and image credits here

ItsAStreamableLife

ASLifePodcast

#NoConcessions: #ConcreteCowboy film reviewA thread https://streamablelife.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/noconcessions-concretecowboy-film-review/ Ricky Staub directs this film based on his novel "Ghetto Cowboy" which is a snapshot o

Shannon Watts

shannonrwatts

These are the gun extremists who hung the Kentucky Governor in effigy in Frankfort. They’re called “Three Percenters,” the wing of American armed insurrectionists that “guarded” the white supremacist rally

Nikolai 🍂rt pinned🍂

ravensandstars

Ok, so this was brought on by a conversation I have had with my grandmother, which led me to muse on conversations I've had with other members of my family