#Historians

Megs☀️

hssweater

We Made It Director’s Cut and The Great Gatsby parallels: a thread that exists bc I see Gatsby everywhere disclaimer: I’m a larrie, and this is v gay. also there

Emi ni Bolanle Oni story 🖋️

tyewoolove

The story of how Afonja lost Ilorin and its kingship to Fulani people.Ilorin was founded by the Yorùbá people,it became the provincial military headquarters of the Oyo Empire (Oyo Ile).At

Crankster McGee

EvOutWest

Small Thread, history repeating: I read this over at NPR about Ammon Bundy/Idaho and opposition to state efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19. The piece mentioned hard right GOP

Manuel L. Quezon III

mlq3

Why you have to be aware that picking September 21 as the martial law anniversary is a tribute to Marcos who engineered it so people alive then actually forgot there

Patryk I Labuda

pilabuda

This post is getting a lot of love on Twitter so I certainly don't need to hype it up. I will say this, though: I think William Schabas makes a

Nick Hinton

NickHintonn

A conspiracy thread: the Secret History of Tartary So recently something very strange has made its way into my awareness. I am referring to the country of Tartary. At one

Jess Nevins

jessnevins

As far as I know, mystery fandom--mystery fans--don't tell you that the only way into the genre is through Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, though of course fans of both

Gene D

Gene_D27

I was not taught about Juneteenth in school. I learned from my own reading, when I was probably about 10-12. As an adult I worked with museum professionals and followed

Suzanne Zeedyk

suzannezeedyk

A brief THREAD on the historical intersection between education and social inequality (i.e., class, power & poverty) in Scotland. In the sad debacle over exams, I went back to the

Hiroko Tabuchi

HirokoTabuchi

Happy Fathers Day! p.s. I have no idea where this was taken.. My parents broke every Asian parent stereotype. Told me not to study too hard, that there were more

stephen

stephen_bs11

Big fat mid exam Stevo deep (over)thinking tweet thread incoming. I apologise in advance but it’s in my head and I’ve got to get it out somewhere. It can’t go

Black Together Again

KProtein19

THREAD: It is a complete myth that Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera started the Stonewall riots, & thus the transgender community is responsible for Pride/LGB rights. This false claim has

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

I've been doing a little thinking about the kind of questions that need to be asked at the upcoming debates. If you happen to be moderating one of them, you

Samuel Wallace

EarlOfTunis

Time for my yearly tweet, reminding all that today marks the anniversary of the end of the Tunisian Campaign, a six-month conflict that saw the Axis finally evicted from North

Rajeev Kumar Ranjan

Adv_RKRanjan

Narendra Modi and his Government is alleged by its opponents to be pursuing a path of Hindu fundamentalist; a threat to Indian secularism.The questions are; What is fundamentalism and does

Boomer Bear

barefootboomer

OMG this White House conference on American History is insane. This may be a thread. Hold on to your butts. Speaking right now is Dr. Larry Arnn. He's from Hillsdale