This painting by Peter Cramer is rich in detail, dear #histodons - peppercakes, street selling activities in an early modern European urban setting, broadsheets glued to a wall, etc.
But what on earth is the highlighted child transporting on its shoulders? A wooden box full of what? Your help is appreciated! @histodons
@dbellingradt
Never mind the box. Until I zoomed in I thought it was a giant rat walking on its hind legs. That's a very ambiguous hat, kid. @histodons
CFP: Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Massacre Sites
The Public Historian special issue
Proposals for alternative formats, such as reports from the field, interviews with practitioners, and roundtable discussions, will also be welcome. Proposals, which should be no longer than one double-spaced page, should be submitted to The Public Historian at [email protected]. Deadline Dec 1, 2023.
@paigeroberts@histodons do you happen to have a link for this call? I'm having trouble finding it anywhere...but that could be my dodgy train Internet connection.
"In our view as cultural anthropologists, the disputed sentence is true as #historians define facts – tiny nuggets of truth one can find in archives, artifacts & diaries"
This caricature is so hard to eradicate. Luckily I am teaching new students otherwise from Day 1
@CitizenWald@histodons Interesting that the authors focus (barely) on the reception of the teaching techniques applied at Williamsburg. They understate the unmitigated disaster of the enterprise at Williamsburg proper and the (now closed) woke annex at Carter's Grove.
I used to discuss Williamsburg /Carter's Grove as an example of the history of (Art) History-making. To a class about 80% Black. Went over well.
@CitizenWald@histodons
Basically I recycled Eric Gable, Richard Handler and Anna Lawson, On the Uses of Relativism: Fact, Conjecture, and Black and White Histories at Colonial Williamsburg, American Ethnologist Vol. 19, No. 4 (November 1992), , pp. 791-805, which has some devastating anecdotes. The bit about whether or not to reference watermelons (because after all that's historically accurate) is worth the price.
Well, around 1500, in Swiss St Gall, nuts were distributed in memory of specific events. Such "memory nuts", as Carla Roth (in her The Talk of The Town" book) calls them, were reminders of old or to be renewed memories of events, things, power constellations etc.
It's a play on words: the contemporary German "Gedächntnuss" (memory) contains "nuss": nut.
@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.
also dealing with heavy anniversary over here, on our island #Hailuoto
'The Russians repeated the massacre in early January 1715 and once more afterwards. As a result of these events, Hailuoto became an uninhabited wilderness.' https://yle.fi/a/3-12072751
Bonjour les historien.nes (et peut-être les personnels de musée ?), une collègue cherche à voir des outils utilisés par D’Orbigny pour mesurer des coquillages, l'héliocomètre et le conchyliomètre, est-ce qu'il en existe à Paris ? (Est-ce qu'il en existe encore ?) @histodonshttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/55264/55264-h/55264-h.htm#p529
@aufsmaulsuppe@historikertag@histodons no, unfortunately. There will be a report on the panel on Hsozkult later this year and we are trying to get our papers published in a historical journal (but that won't happen until late next year).
▶️ Für die #Filmkritik wirft Maxi Braun einen neuen Blick auf die tabubrechende filmische Inszenierung homosexueller Subkultur in "The Boys in the Band" (1970)
▶️ Für die #Expokritik haben Christian Curtil & Ulrike Blumenthal getrennt voneinander das wiedereröffnete Pariser Stadtmuseum Carnavalet besucht
Murdoch’s departure from Fox News is likely a positive for Biden, who has benefited from a string of setbacks for conservative media during his presidency.
Here’s some of the context from a media historian:
@TheConversationUS@histodons I would, on the other hand, propose that the chaos in the right wing media has had little effect in improving Biden’s image or popularity, as is clearly shown with his current low approval ratings. This article proposes a potential cause without describing any effect.