#1865

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kzshabazz

You hate to see it. African Americans have been demanding reparations since 1865. ADOS leaders have bamboozled their followers into believing that reparations hasn't materialized be because we lacked a

I am not uncertain.

_adrxante

Happy Juneteenth I will celebrate by making a thread of little known black history events Hiram Rhodes Revels (R-Mississippi) was the first black person to be elected to Congress

Chad Williams

Dr_ChadWilliams

Some thoughts on #Juneteenth . The actual order issued by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865 is a powerful teaching document. It captures the conflicting definitions of freedom

Nazim Khaldi

NazimKhaldi

May 26, 1883 - 2020 : As we honor today Emir Abdelkader’s memory and commemorate his continuing legacy, let’s remind how great & powerful his was. (Photography by Étienne Carjat

The summers we shared

Picss3o

How new is Modern Money Theory?Let me tell you a story...In the US Civil War Abraham Lincoln was running out of money to pay the troops. He went to the

Livia

LiviaBellona

In light of Michigan @DaleZornSenate's recent donning of a Confederate flag mask, I decided to do some Resistance Genealogy inspired by @CleverTitleTK. (In case you hadn't heard, this gent from

National Gallery of Art

ngadc

On #MemorialDay, we honor the lives of soldiers who have died while serving in the US Armed Forces. Today, we will remember them with a look at Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s “Shaw

yeso Mûkri

Rojhalattt

Thread sur le Kurdistan en photo.Une compilation de 92 pellicules retraçant l’histoire d’un peuple durant le siècle dernier.• Leader Kurde• Peshmerga• La République du Kurdistan (1946)• Kurde• Paysage Kurde• Les

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. I'll explain what I mean here. I'm a Biden voter. But it is fundamentally dangerous that Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai are making policy over how we deliberate over

Nic

nicdestevens

Since the very inception of the USA, black people and POC were treated as second class people at best, and often times not even human beings. Black people were not

Clint Smith

ClintSmithIII

Today, let's remember that the first Memorial Day celebration was held on May 1, 1865 by Black people in Charleston, SC. As historian David Blight puts it, "The war was

Whores of Yore

WhoresofYore

This is Olympia, by Édouard Manet. It was exhibited in the 1865 Paris Salon & caused an absolute scandal as it clearly depicted a sex worker. It was condemned as

Dujie Tahat

DujieTahat

Before the attention goes away remember that occupation & sustained demonstration is v much a part of Seattle's civil rights tradition which—whether #CHOP #CHAZ knows it—they've inherited. So a brief

Evan Smith

evanishistory

For #twitterstorians and #Simpsons fans - a thread of representations of the Presidents of the United States on the show (from George Washington to Bill Clinton - with a few

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Sheshapatangi

Being a Kannadiga, I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know about this great historian, a chance encounter on Mysore gazette took me to an author who wrote 400 years

Irish History Bitesize!

lorraineelizab6

The earliest leprechaun story is medieval (Adventure of Fergus son of Léti): Fergus mac Léti King of Ulster falls asleep on beach & is dragged into the sea by 3