“Some scholars have suggested that the Shakyas, the clan of the historical Gautama Buddha, were originally Scythians from Central Asia, and that the Indian ethnonym Śākya has the same origin as “Scythian,” called Sakas in India.”
@paninid@histodons Herodotus seemed to believe they might be tangentially related. Multiple separate groups or tribes across Asia, that shared some sort of umbrella culture.
Today being #Thanksgiving, we can enjoy being treated to a host of historical commentaries & corrections
Gifted for you from behind the paywall, this important piece from 2021
Thanksgiving anniversary: Wampanoag Indians regret helping Pilgrims 400 years ago: Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621 Washington Post
#Massachusetts again: my colleague Professor Emerita of Photography Sandra Matthews & Nolumbeka Project President David Brule recently published their Occupying Massachusetts: Layers of History on Indigenous Land a photobook of historical & contemporary structures to make us think about the land of the Commonwealth
Teaching about #Thanksgiving & the #Pilgrims & #Puritans epitomizes the goals @AHAHistorians set for #history students, e.g. learning to see people of the past as both like us & very different, the latter demanding an act of sensitive imagination
This is how a page from a medieval #manuscript looks when its original text had been scraped off by someone, overwritten with a new text, and then later, a 19th-century scholar discovered the #palimpsest and tried to make the undertext's ink visible again by painting the page with chemical reagents.
I love book curses. Were they just an English thing or did all languages do it?
A fave:
“If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.”
Umfangreiche französischsprachige Quellenkorpora des Mittelalters maschinell erschließen?
Im nächsten #DigitalHistoryOFK nimmt Pauline Spychala (DHI Paris) die Texterkennungsplattformen #eScriptorium & #Transkribus unter die Lupe. Ziel ihres Projektes ist die Entwicklung eines Workflows, der beide Tools effektiv kombiniert, um u.a. den Eigenschaften der untersuchten Quellen gerecht zu werden.
@DigitalHistory@histodons Vielen Dank für den spannenden Vortrag heute Abend! Ich hoffe, dass das Video veröffentlicht wird und dass wir noch das Chat Protokoll mit all den interessanten Links bekommen. 😃
Comment a-t-on territorialisé les océans du monde? Nadin Heé examine l'industrie thonière japonaise, et montre comment les héritages impériaux et les politiques de #décolonisation ont lourdement pesé sur l’établissement d’un nouvel ordre mondial de #souveraineté océanique.
➡️ Régimes de pêche et nouvel ordre mondial dans le bassin Indo-Pacifique au XXe siècle
Comment penser historiquement l'#Atlantique du Nord-Ouest, et la conception qu'en avaient les marins (surtout des pêcheurs) qui, au XVIe siècle, le fréquentaient? Jack BOUCHARD propose d'en explorer les #cartes mentales dans ce très bel article:
➡️ Terra Nova. Cartes mentales de l’Atlantique du Nord-Ouest au XVIe siècle
NYT video about the Palomares nuclear accident over Spain in 1966.
A US h-bomber was refueling in mid-air over Southern Spain. Both exploded and four h-bombs fell onto a small Spanish beach town (2 into the Mediterranean). This film examines health consequences to the clean up crew.
#OnThisDay in #history - Annie Besant (nee Wood) was born in 1847. Annie was born in London, and married at age 20, but the marriage fell apart in a few years. She separated from her husband and began to write - she was an ardent supporter of worker's and women's rights, even publishing a book on contraception (for which she was put on trial and custody of her daughter was given to her ex-husband). She advocated for Irish and Indian Home Rule and independence. #otd#histodons@histodons
Avis aux contemporanéistes du réseau. L'arrière grand-père de ma compagne était un militant du PC dans les Vosges, à Gérardmer. J'ai appris l'existence du fonds RAGSPI et j'ai découvert qu'il y avait un dossier à son nom. Je cherche à obtenir la copie de ce dossier dont on trouve la réf ici : https://sovdoc.rusarchives.ru/sections/organizations//cards/230582
Qui sait comment accéder à ce fonds et qui pourrait en détenir une copie ? J'ai compris que des microfilms pouvaient exister en France... #archives@archivistodon@histodons
@archivistodon@histodons
Néanmoins les dossiers personnels ne sont pas en ligne. Il semble qu'ils soit consultable sur à Moscou. Toutefois une partie des dossiers semblent être consultable au Centre d’Histoire Sociale de Paris 1. Quelqu'un a-t-il des infos complémentaires ?
@histodons On the other hand, "Wealth of Nations" is also the title of a mid-eighties 7'' vinyl from the US Punk band SS-20 (maybe widely known for the hit "Is Elvis listening?"). And "The Queen is Dead" has been used for book titles many times, for example from Kate Locke to Stan Grant. So much for Smith(s') reception for today.
"On a tear, and undeterred by mere facts." Donald Wright, president of the CHA, describes the maddeningly inaccurate and stupidly conspiratorial claims re: #history made by the leader of the federal Conservatives, the man who will likely become #Canada's next PM.
"[W]hat we deserve is an honest recognition that history is complicated, and always has been.... no one wants to live in a society where there is only one version of the past." #CdnPoli#histodons@histodons
@dairpo@histodons It's a fairly innocuous piece. Wright mostly just points out the obvious - changing the images in passports doesn't erase history. And that this whole talking point in the right's culture wars is absurd: societies re-evaluate their stories over time, this is what history is.
@ninetiger@histodons
One expert says no bc of the non-canonical material in this fragment - it overlaps with the Gospel of Thomas also - but I think it's worth more study for sure.
How can we be sure the other stuff wasn't also in Q?
Really enjoying this. It's both an impressively erudite and remarkably accessible retelling of #USHistory that centers #Indigenous peoples and obliterates a number of national myths. Highly recommended and worth imitating for historians (like me!) working in other national contexts. #history#AmericanHistory#histodons@histodons
@brian_gettler@histodons Thank you very much for the recommendation. I'm currently reading about the African Diaspora and the resulting enslavement of Black people, and their skein of American history. I have assembled some 30-odd books on Native history to read next. You have just added to that trove.