They had not known names of US #CivilRights icons A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marianne Anderson--yet presumed to understand the intricacies of one of the most tragic & intractable conflicts on earth
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It's less about what they believe (that's up to them) than about being able to explain why they believe it, citing their evidence; learning why others may read that evidence differently. It's what we do.
#History nerds might appreciate the fact that the Romans renamed the territory of Judaea to Palestine (invoking the ancient enemy, the Philistines) as a kind of “fnck you” to the Jewish people who’s been associated with the land for nearly a millennia by that point.
@historyshapes@histodons Not the first time I toast bread to make a sandwich and I eat the bread instead. So, eating bread with bread (which, as an Spanish idiom says, is "fools' meal") seems delicious to me...
Natalie has taught us so much. Her generosity of spirit. Her active and curious mind until the end. Appreciating junior and senior scholars alike without distinction. She was an inspiration. It was an honor to have known her.
It may sound inaccurate, but when an eight year old child hears a story from their grandparents and years later recounts it to their own grandchildren they will have spanned 150 years with one memory.
And we have an excellent memory for things that happened when we were young .
very sad news: Passing of Prof. Natalie Zemon Davis | H-Net
Pioneering #historian of women's and gender history, early modern French history, new interdisciplinary historical methodologies. Indeed, one of the greatest historians of the modern age.
Natalie Zemon Davis, one of the greats, has passed. I was fortunate to meet her on several occasions - she was an emeritus professor in my department. Beyond her formidable published body of work, mostly focused on early modern France, I was always struck by her generosity and genuine interest in others' research, regardless of field or stature. RIP. #histodons@histodons
Arthur Conan Doyle created the greatest detective in history, but he wasn’t great at spotting scams in real life. This week: the “spirit photography” hoax, which tricked Doyle and Mary Todd Lincoln, among others.
@worldhistory@histodons whilst I have not personally witnessed ghostly additions in photos, I have had direct personal experience of somebody who was present not appearing in the developed photo.
Several of us were reading the words of a song pinned to the back of the girl in front, but in the final photo she is missing from the chorus line. We are all looking at an empty space.
A long time before photoshop; the photographer was unaware until it was pointed out
There was never an explanation
Hey @histodons and @physics, what's a good book about the #manhattanproject that gives me a brief overview? Preferably in English or German. I recently read some historical books about early twentieth century #physics and the #viennacircle of the #philosophyofscience which kind of lead me to this topic.
'Killers of the Flower Moon' delves into racial and family dynamics that rocked Oklahoma to the core when oil was discovered on Osage lands. White settlers targeted members of the Osage Nation to steal their land and the riches beneath it. But from a historical perspective, this crime is just the tip of the iceberg.
Only just learned of the passing last month of the ancient historian Kurt Raaflaub, professor emeritus of classics at Brown University. Raaflaub, who died after a fall at his home, was 82. Known for his studies on Julius Caesar, on ancient historiography and on ancient political thought, Raaflaub was born in Cameroon as the son of Swiss missionaries and earned his PhD from the University of Basel.
@histodons I knew Kurt Raaflaub through the Association of Ancient Historians, at whose meetings he was a stalwart. I found him always polite and inquisitive, with insightful questions and comments. He was continuing to work on scholarship up to his unexpected death, and I remember hearing him speak two years ago at an AAH online meeting bringing modern theories to bear on understanding Julius Caesar and Roman perceptions of the Gauls within ancient ethnographic traditions.
Same-sex relationships and gender beyond a strict cisgender binary was more common in ancient Greece and Rome than many people today assume, if we look at the surviving writings 🏳️🌈
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"The concept of homosexuality as a distinct sexual orientation or distinct kind of behavior did not exist."
Hell, it didn't exist until the late 19th century. It had been demonised, then it was pathologised through the first half of the 20th century.
Even your term "LGBTQI-like" tends to impose our thinking on it. They were who they were and they did what they did, and maybe things like honour, virtue, valour and status were more salient than sex and gender to them.
Until the mid-20th century Corinthians was more than likely pedastery. Leviticus the jury's out a bit but picking the words either (again) pedastery bit more likely incest. Like, don't sleep with your brother either.
Palestinians and Jews have been maligning, menacing and murdering each other since the 19th century, writes a documentary filmmaker who grew up in Israel.
For many Jewish Israelis, October 7’s attack was unexpected in the “unimaginable brutality and destruction. Few pictured Hamas wreaking ISIS-style havoc on 20 towns, raping women and murdering children.”
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It’s more like 911 than ISIS because both Bush and Netanyahu had advance warning of an impending massive terror attack and choose to ignore the warnings.
Why did they choose to ignore the warnings and why are both Bush’s (and trump) not in jail?
Because the foolish voters allow it, woefully thinking the fascist warmongers won’t come for them one day…despite the thousands of American families already inexcusably harmed by the failed warmonger response to 911.