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CitizenWald, 7 months ago

And, keeping it here in Massachusetts, from our friends at WBUR :

Beyond turkey: How to start a conversation with children about Thanksgiving

A #NativeAmerican children’s book author who often goes to #schools to talk about gratitude has advice about how parents can reframe the story of Thanksgiving for their young children.

We revisit a conversation Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes had last year with Traci Sorell, author of “We are Grateful: Otsaliheliga."

@histodons

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

#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

https://gftbooks.com/books_Matthews.html

Video of their talk at Amherst Historical Society:
https://youtu.be/lDuQHBzPqqM?si=lI4fxLADPhWw3mDA

David will speak about King Philip's War https://amhersthistory.org/events/king-philips-war-a-local-perspective-by-david-brule/

@histodons

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

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

https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/tuning-the-history-discipline/2016-history-discipline-core

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/

2 pieces from the press:

David Hall, Peace, Love and Puritanism

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/opinion/24hall.html

Maggie Philips The Original Puritans
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/original-puritans-thanksgiving

@histodons

8. Recognize the provisional nature of knowledge, the disciplinary preference for complexity, and the comfort with ambiguity that history requires. a. Welcome contradictory perspectives and data, which enable us to provide more accurate accounts and construct stronger arguments. b. Describe past events from multiple perspectives. c. Explain and justify multiple causes of complex events and phenomena using conflicting sources. d. Identify, summarize, appraise, and synthesize other scholars’ historical arguments. 4. Apply the range of skills it takes to decode the historical record because of its incomplete, complex, and contradictory nature. a. Consider a variety of historical sources for credibility, position, perspective, and relevance. b. Evaluate historical arguments, explaining how they were constructed and might be improved. c. Revise analyses and narratives when new evidence requires it.

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

@peterjriley2024 @bojacobs @histodons @nuclearhumanities

Some of this--even though we were small children back then--have a deep memory of this incident

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

@peterjriley2024 @bojacobs @histodons @nuclearhumanities

Some of us--even though we were small children back then--have a deep memory of this incident

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

Resuming 🧵 #antisemitism & #FakeNews re: #Gaza #Hamas - #Israel war

1of the most disturbing things re: the conversation is the denial of history, e.g. assertion that Jews mostly descended from medieval #Khazar converts (conversion was real but limited)

I've always been fascinated by the history of both the pagan #Khazars & conversion

Who knows that the Caspian Sea was called the Khazar Sea, or that the victory of the Khazars was as important as the Battle of Tours?

#Mazeldon @histodons 2/n

2 maps showing the Caspian Sea labeled as the Khazar Sea: Bonne, Imperii Romani Distracta. Pars Orientalis (Paris, 1780) Schnitzler, L'Empire de Charlemagne et celui des Arabes . . . au commencement du IXme siècle (Strasbourg, 1857)
left: line drawing of Khazar finds--primarily amulets and the like--from a Russian book on Khazar archaeology right: small anthropomorphic Khazar amulet; bronze, dark green-brown patina center: small Khazar amulet of grinning or grimacing human head with teeth bared; bronze, green patina text:

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

As I've noted earlier (https://historians.social/@CitizenWald/110574070037911438), the #Khazar hypothesis began as a legitimate attempt to explain eastern European history.

However, right-wing extremists & racists, from the Christian Identity movement to McCarthyites, appropriated it in the early C20 & grafted it onto existing conspiratorial #antisemitism

Here, one of my "favorite" examples, which shows you just how loopy this shit was. The book earned praise from major political & military figures

#Mazeldon @histodons 3/n

“The Marxian program of drastic controls, so repugnant to the free western mind, was no obstacle to the acceptance of Marxism by many Khazar Jews, for the Babylonian Talmud under which they lived taught them to accept authoritarian dictation on everything from their immorality to their trade practices. Since the Talmud contained more than 12,000 controls, the regimentation of Marxism was acceptable— provided the Khazar politician, like the Talmudic rabbi, exercised the power of the dictatorship.” —John Beaty, Iron Curtain Over America

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

As I've noted earlier (https://historians.social/@CitizenWald/110574070037911438), the #Khazar hypothesis began as a legitimate attempt to explain eastern European history.

However, right-wing extremists & racists, from the Christian Identity movement to McCarthyites, appropriated it in the early C20 & grafted it onto existing conspiratorial #antisemitism

Here, one of my "favorite" examples, which shows you just how loopy this shit was. The book earned praise from major political & military figures

#Mazeldon @histodons 3/n

“The Marxian program of drastic controls, so repugnant to the free western mind, was no obstacle to the acceptance of Marxism by many Khazar Jews, for the Babylonian Talmud under which they lived taught them to accept authoritarian dictation on everything from their immorality to their trade practices. Since the Talmud contained more than 12,000 controls, the regimentation of Marxism was acceptable— provided the Khazar politician, like the Talmudic rabbi, exercised the power of the dictatorship.” —John Beaty, Iron Curtain Over America

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

So, how did the #Arabs pick up the #Khazar myth? They already had plenty of practical & legitimate reasons to oppose #Zionism if they wanted to.

Scholars generally agree, Arab #antisemitism in the strict sense (though there are of course anti-Judaic elements in the Quran and Hadith) was imported from the Christian West in C19. & now, we realize, #Nazism played a crucial role:

The 1948 Arab war against Israel: An aftershock of World War II?

https://fathomjournal.org/the-1948-arab-war-against-israel-an-aftershock-of-world-war-ii/

#Mazeldon @histodons 4/n

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

The #Nazi #antisemitism that fed #Islamism of course affirmed the "Semitic" roots of Jews

Thereby hangs a tale:

As far as I can tell, the virus of the #Khazar myth leaped from the US far right to the #Arabs thanks to the obsessive activity of the wacko Jewish soap maker, apostate, & #Holocaust denier, Benjamin Freedman. Tragically, they thought he would help them spread their message in the US on the eve of #Palestine Partition debate at the UN

#Antisemitism #Mazeldon #Israel
@histodons

Christians Duped By Unholiest Hoax in All History! "Big lie" technique pushing U. S. A. to the brink of World War III." Characteristic rambling screed by Freedman in the McCarthyite racist Common Sense, showing map with Khazaria circled

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

The #Nazi #antisemitism that fed #Islamism of course affirmed the "Semitic" roots of Jews

Thereby hangs a tale:

As far as I can tell, the virus of the #Khazar myth leaped from the US far right to the #Arabs thanks to the obsessive activity of the wacko Jewish soap maker, apostate, & #Holocaust denier, Benjamin Freedman. Tragically, they thought he would help them spread their message in the US on the eve of #Palestine Partition debate at the UN

#Antisemitism #Mazeldon #Israel
@histodons 5/n

Christians Duped By Unholiest Hoax in All History! "Big lie" technique pushing U. S. A. to the brink of World War III." Characteristic rambling screed by Freedman in the McCarthyite racist Common Sense, showing map with Khazaria circled

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

The Arab--+ some other nonwestern--delegates to the UN deployed the #Khazar argument against #Palestine #Partition & the creation of #Israel, though no one took it seriously, & as the eloquent Arab spokesman Cecil Hourani later noted, "It was only on closer contact with him that I came to realize he was less motivated by a love for the Arabs than by an obsessive hatred of Russian & Polish Jews,” “an ancient prejudice which was in fact a form of racism.

#antisemitism #Mazeldon
@histodons 6/n

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

The #Arab League basically abandoned use of the #Khazar myth after 1948--tho cranks such as Saudi UN envoy & histrionic windbag Jamil Baroody periodically trotted it out.

Its recurrence is therefore cause for deep concern: 1) a sign of dangerous regression to zero-sum game: denying opponent's identity does not induce him to compromise 2) technique is same: historical distortion disingenuously citing scholarship from the opponent's community. Cheap trick.

#Mazeldon #antisemitism
@histodons 7/n

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

Here are some examples of the current weaponization of the #Khazar Myth--from Indonesia -via GoogleTranslate

Note the strategy: suggest dark secret repressed by sinister forces, cite seemingly respectable sources from the community of the enemy , if possible cite natural science

The scholarly community resoundingly rejected both Koestler's amateur historical argument & Elhaik's genetic work

https://forward.com/israel/209236/genetics-expert-insists-75-of-jews-share-roots-in/

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/09/23/are-modern-jews-converted-khazarian-pagans-more-evidence-of-middle-eastern-roots/#link

#Mazeldon #antisemtism
@histodons 8/n

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

So, after all that historical-scientific background, we return to the present to find (random example) people in Indonesia (of all places) promoting this nonsense:

Again, note the strategy

#Mazeldon #antisemit ism #Israel #Gaza

@histodons 9/n

GELORA.CO - Academic scientific studies show that the majority of today's Jews who colonize Palestine are not descendants of the Israelites who once lived in Palestine. The majority of Jews today are of Khazar Jewish descent. Surprisingly, they claim, historically Palestine is their land. Their history and heritage are tied to Palestine. They are the original inhabitants of the land of Palestine. "Aside from them not being native residents there, they are nothing more than people just passing through," wrote Dr Muhsin Muhammad Shaleh in his book entitled "Ardhu Filistin wa Sya'buha" which Warsito, Lc translated as "The Land of Palestine and Its People" . Jews point out that this claim is based on the reign of David and Solomon as well as the existence of the state of 'Israel' and Judaism in Palestine and so on. They claim Palestine is related to their racial (national) affiliation and racial composition. So, can today's Jews prove that they are descendants of the Children of Israel who lived in Palestine before 2000 years ago? Academic scientific studies of a number of Jews themselves, including the study of the famous writer A. Koestler in his book "The Thirteenth Trible: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage", shows that the majority who determine today's Jews are not descendants of the Children of Israel who once lived. in Palestine.
[Headline over people of diverse appearance apparently holding up Torah scroll covers in Jerusalem (is the implied point supposed to be that they cannot be genetically related? [if so, that displays an embarrassingly uninformed view of the science) Headline: DNA Test Reveals Israel's Current Jewish Inhabitants Are Not From Canaan
Most of the Jews today, who are mobilizing for the establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine, apparently are not people from the former kingdoms of the Prophets David and Solomon in Judea and Samaria. Most of them turned out to be other people, from other races. In short, they were not the Jews we often read about in the scriptures. All of this is confirmed by historical facts and investigations carried out by historical researchers, including Ernest Renan, and even proven through the results of scientific research. Then, who are they? Let's check it out. .... Based on 2016 census data, Israel has a population of around 8.58 million people. As many as 6.45 million of them or 74.8 percent are Jews. Of these Jews, about half are Ashkenazi Jews. The rest are Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and others. Meanwhile, the other residents are Arabs (Muslims, Christians and Druze) and others. Almost all of the founders of the current state of Israel were Jews who migrated from Europe, especially Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Europe and parts of Western Europe such as Germany. Almost all of them are Ashkenazi Jews, from Chaim Weizmann (Israel's first president), David Ben- Gurion (Israel's first prime minister), to Benjamin Netanyahu (current Israeli prime minister). Gal Gadot, a former female Israeli soldier, who is now popular for playing Wonder Woman in Hollywood films, is also Ashekenazi Jewish.

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

So, after all that historical-scientific background, we return to the present to find (random example) people in Indonesia (of all places) promoting this nonsense

Again, note strategy:

Bold assertion of sinister suppression of dark secret, buttressed by citation of supposedly authoritative sources that reader (at least here) is in no position to evaluate (& reader, trusting source, does not go on to scrutinize)

And so the crap spreads.

#Mazeldon #antisemit ism #Israel #Gaza

@histodons 9/n

GELORA.CO - Academic scientific studies show that the majority of today's Jews who colonize Palestine are not descendants of the Israelites who once lived in Palestine. The majority of Jews today are of Khazar Jewish descent. Surprisingly, they claim, historically Palestine is their land. Their history and heritage are tied to Palestine. They are the original inhabitants of the land of Palestine. "Aside from them not being native residents there, they are nothing more than people just passing through," wrote Dr Muhsin Muhammad Shaleh in his book entitled "Ardhu Filistin wa Sya'buha" which Warsito, Lc translated as "The Land of Palestine and Its People" . Jews point out that this claim is based on the reign of David and Solomon as well as the existence of the state of 'Israel' and Judaism in Palestine and so on. They claim Palestine is related to their racial (national) affiliation and racial composition. So, can today's Jews prove that they are descendants of the Children of Israel who lived in Palestine before 2000 years ago? Academic scientific studies of a number of Jews themselves, including the study of the famous writer A. Koestler in his book "The Thirteenth Trible: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage", shows that the majority who determine today's Jews are not descendants of the Children of Israel who once lived. in Palestine.
[Headline over people of diverse appearance apparently holding up Torah scroll covers in Jerusalem (is the implied point supposed to be that they cannot be genetically related? [if so, that displays an embarrassingly uninformed view of the science) Headline: DNA Test Reveals Israel's Current Jewish Inhabitants Are Not From Canaan
Most of the Jews today, who are mobilizing for the establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine, apparently are not people from the former kingdoms of the Prophets David and Solomon in Judea and Samaria. Most of them turned out to be other people, from other races. In short, they were not the Jews we often read about in the scriptures. All of this is confirmed by historical facts and investigations carried out by historical researchers, including Ernest Renan, and even proven through the results of scientific research. Then, who are they? Let's check it out. .... Based on 2016 census data, Israel has a population of around 8.58 million people. As many as 6.45 million of them or 74.8 percent are Jews. Of these Jews, about half are Ashkenazi Jews. The rest are Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and others. Meanwhile, the other residents are Arabs (Muslims, Christians and Druze) and others. Almost all of the founders of the current state of Israel were Jews who migrated from Europe, especially Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Europe and parts of Western Europe such as Germany. Almost all of them are Ashkenazi Jews, from Chaim Weizmann (Israel's first president), David Ben- Gurion (Israel's first prime minister), to Benjamin Netanyahu (current Israeli prime minister). Gal Gadot, a former female Israeli soldier, who is now popular for playing Wonder Woman in Hollywood films, is also Ashekenazi Jewish.

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

One of the tragedies of the #Israel - #Palestine conflict is that the leaders of the latter have engaged in historical denial--starting with denial there was a Jewish temple in Jerusalem (https://www.thedailybeast.com/temple-denial) and now repeated invocation of the #Khazar myth by both the Palestinian president (whose PhD thesis was a work of #Holocaust denial https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/mahmoud-abbas-soviet-dissertation) + the Prime Minister, who is just loopy.

This idiocy makes peace-building impossible.

@histodons #Mazeldon #antisemitism 10/n

Antizionist Pseudohistory Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh, 2021 "The other key to the research is the Jews of today. Who are they? Without going into detail — they are the Khazar Jews, who converted to Judaism in the sixth century CE. This issue requires research. There are many sources and books about the Khazar Jews.

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

@Podophyllum @histodons

Good to be cautious about that source (I am a fan of Wikipedia: it's just that one needs to know how to evaluate it, esp. when controversial subjects provoke editing wars). Anyway, I spend way too much time reading about genetics, but that is a basically accurate characterization. A prominent interpretation is that, although both males and females came to Europe, male intermarriage with local females created the genetic profile. Main point here, tho, is Mideast ancestry

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

@drmikeh49 @Podophyllum @histodons

Indeed. When I teach about this stuff I do note the irony of use of genetic research among minority populations. But as I explain: it is so important to Jews & African Americans because their histories were taken away: lives and written records destroyed, so genetics fills in these historical gaps.
It is a historical-scientific research tool. Religion and identity will always remain personal and cultural. But one needs to have a brain in order to grasp this.

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

An old (just look at the aesthetic & tech) Wittenberg website states that Luther's posting of the 95 theses OTD 1517 was a myth [broken link: https://luther.de/en/legenden/tanschl.html]

The new website tilts back the other way

https://lutherstadt-wittenberg.de/en/see-discover/sights/castle-church 2/n

Castle church with theses door The Wittenberg Castle Church is probably the most famous and popular attraction in the old he world-famous Theses Door, now a popular photo spot, is no longer the original door on which Luther probably nailed his 95 theses. The door that now stands on this " site is cast in bronze and has Luther's theses on it. The castle tower, visible from a great distance, is framed by a line from one of Luther's hymns, "A Mighty Fortress is Our God." Thetower originally belonged to Wittenberg Castle along with a second tower that had been removed. Since 1996, the castle church has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. B~ (7

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

Heiko Oberman, in Luther: Man Between God and the Devil (1982; English 1989), adheres to traditional Story of 95 Theses. #ReformationDay 3/n

...Barely two weeks after being posted, the theses had circulated all over Germany, Luther reported; and understandably so, “for all the world i complaining about indulgences.”*' According to university records there was a disputation on the theses in Wittenberg, as Luther had desired. But against his wishes they were translated into German and printed in Nurem berg. No copy of this edition has survived. Luther affixed a handwritte “list” to the church door and only then sent a second version of the Lati theses to the printer, first in Wittenberg and then in Nuremberg, Leipzig and Basel.Luther later described the echo he found as a depressing success: “The publicity did not appeal to me. For I myself did not know what an indulgence was, and the song was getting too high for my voice"...

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

n contrast to Oberman, Richard Marius, in Martin Luther: The Christian Between God & Death (1999), explains the nature of the historical controversy over the truth of the tradition that Luther posted the 95 Theses OTD 1517. #ReformationDay 4/8

4/n

...For many years it was supposed that someone copied the theses off the door, translated them from atin into German, and had them reprinted so that they flew over Germany and made Luther a hero overnight. Certainly the theses were quickly translated and circulated and Luther suddenly was propelled into fame. But in 1961 a German Catholic scholar, Erwin Iserloh, raised a question: Were the theses posted? In the current mood of Catholic ecumenicity, Iserloh was sympathetic to Luther. But he consid- red these facts. Nowhere in his table talk in later years did Luther speak of posting the Ninety-five Theses on the church door. In none of his own works reviewing the beginning of the controversy does he mention any public posting. He recalled that he preached to his people about grace and remission fo sins against the shallow proclamations of the indulgence sellers, and he seems to have discussed the matter in private with associates and to have sent copies of the theses to learned friends. But none of this resembles a public act of hammering the theses onto a church door and calling for a disputation. Iserloh holds that the story of the nailing of the theses to the church door comes from the pen of Philipp Melanchthon, who wrote a short summary of Luther’s life a few months after Luther died. Melanchthon (1497-1 560) was a professor of Greek, with a mind much more orderly (and commonplace) than Luther’s, and one of Luther’s closest colleagues. He was to become

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

Then, in 2006, a new archival find of a contemporaneous reference seemed to lend credence to the story of the nailing of the 95 Theses to the church door OTD 1517--tho perhaps not by Luther himself (feature film 1953; docu 2008)

https://www.ekd.de/Martin-Luther-Thesenanschlag-14255.htm

http://www.lutherbase.de/aspects.html#WittenbergSchlosskirche/FilmclipLegendeThesenanschlag

5/n

scene from 2008 documentary

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

Since then, the pendulum on the nailing of the 95 theses to the church door OTD 1517 has swung back & forth.
Here, a Tübingen theologian & church historian dismisses it as a legend reflecting the Protestant need for symbols of the faith (2016)
https://n-tv.de/panorama/Luthers-Thesenanschlag-ist-eine-Legende-article18937366.html 6/n

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

In 2018, 2 historians from the historical Luther sites set forth the case for the authenticity of the tradition that he nailed the 95 theses to the church door OTD 1517:

Luthers Thesenanschlag laut Historikern mehr als bloss Legende https://ref.ch/news/luthers-thesenanschlag-laut-historikern-mehr-als-bloss-legende/ 7/n

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

Book historian Andrew Pettegree, who accepts the tradition, makes the key points in Brand Luther (2017):

• Even Luther did not see the Theses as extraordinary
• Regardless of the authenticity of the church door story, it was the new #print culture that made them revolutionary 8/8
  @dbellingradt
  #BookHistory @bookhistodons

the theses is overwhelming. We know that the Wittenberg press had been established largely to serve the interests of the university, and aca- demic ephemera of this sort dominated the output of the first print shops.* We can also call in evidence the relatively recent discovery of Rhau-Grunenberg’s September printing of the theses on Scholastic theology.*® This provides critical evidence for the existence of a Rhau- Grunenberg broadsheet prototype of the ninety-five theses on indul- gences. For the earlier broadsheet Rhau-Grunenberg used what was clearly his house style, dividing the theses into blocks of twenty-five. This was precisely the form in which the Nuremberg and Basel reprints of the ninety-five theses on indulgences were presented, suggesting they were set up on the basis of a lost Wittenberg original. This really crucial

CitizenWald, 8 months ago

I of course understand that students empathize with #Palestinians in #Gaza. Who, after, all, would not be moved by the tragic scenes?

My questions derived simply from what we have been studying about the complexity of evidence, sources, & nuance that undergird historical understanding:

• @AHAHistorians https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/tuning-the-history-discipline/2016-history-discipline-core

• Sam Wineburg on historical thinking https://profiles.stanford.edu/samuel-wineburg

How are students & citizens to navigate today's polarized information world?

@histodons #Gaza #Mazeldon

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

@YetAnotherGeekGuy @histodons @ekongkaar @AHAHistorians

Amazing that so many people, who would recoil in outrage from Christian right-wing fundamentalism, have trouble condemning clerical fascism in another guise.

My favorite British Trotskyites show how to make clear distinctions even among violent movements.

Why isn’t Hamas like the Algerian FLN? | Workers' Liberty

https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-24/why-isnt-hamas-algerian-fln

CitizenWald, 7 months ago

@mapto @NovaSynchron @AHAHistorians @histodons

Well, that's what I would hope (as this is a course about historical thinking): #EverythingHasAHistory: get students to learn about origins, compare perspectives, documents, evidence; understand nuance, develop empathy [https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/tuning-the-history-discipline/2016-history-discipline-core].

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.

CitizenWald, 8 months ago

another major loss to the academic world:

Beloved architectural #historian scholar, and academic Anthony Vidler passes away at 82 | News | Archinect

(and he was a colleague of Natalie Zemon Davis, collaborated with various historians)

https://archinect.com/news/article/150387425/beloved-architectural-historian-scholar-and-academic-anthony-vidler-passes-away-at-82

#architecture

@histodons