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#everythinghasahistory —thread on the Beijing protest banners
One point worth adding, since it seems likely the protester expected to be caught: in many settings, including China (from Qu Yuan’s time on) there are traditions of putting one’s life on the line (eg in hunger strikes), or even ending it, to draw attention to a grievance or goal
Since I brought up Qu Yuan in my last tweet on the Beijing banners, some background on this figure is provided here, in the always valuable on issues associated with dissent, censorship, and and many other things @chinaheritage site chinaheritage.net/journal/the-do…
As I close out the first half of my first year as editor of #AHAPerspectives (we don't publish the print edition in the summer), here is a 🧵of articles I especially liked working on!
1. My first piece as #AHAPerspectives editor, having just come through a whirlwind-fast 3 week interview process, was by @TheOtherRBG . True facts: I had taught one of her relatives writing when I was at @BrownHist.
Rhode Island is a small place.
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Rhode Island is a small place.
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2. @lmansley was the primary editor on this #AHAPerspectives article, but Peggy Liss lives right by the @AHAhistorians townhouse and is a delight - we spent two hours talking over coffee just last week. It was a pleasure to meet her through this process.
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historians.org/publications-a…
Coming soon: some thoughts on PA regions & voting trends (mumbled about this earlier with @4st8 but it's really happening now: New Regions👀) 
In part I wanted to work with a relatively more equal population distribution...
In part I wanted to capture the ways river towns along the Susquehanna River in central & northern PA—which tend to be home to colleges, medical ctrs, more young people, more professionals—have an evolving progressive ecosystem that shouldn't be split arbitrarily across regions
Time for another #MoneyAtoZ thread.
A series of tweetorials based on my @iubHistory @IUCollege History of Money course (HIST-W 330).
A is for Ancient Economy
B is for Bitcoin
C is for Cowries
d is for Penny
E is for Euro
F is for Free Banking
and ….G is for Gold. 1/
A series of tweetorials based on my @iubHistory @IUCollege History of Money course (HIST-W 330).
A is for Ancient Economy
B is for Bitcoin
C is for Cowries
d is for Penny
E is for Euro
F is for Free Banking
and ….G is for Gold. 1/
2/Gold! It’s so sparkly & malleable. It conducts electricity well, doesn’t tarnish, is even edible. Try it on your steak tartare, or put it on your cupcakes!
Biomedical uses as well.
Ah the virtues of inertness.
Biomedical uses as well.
Ah the virtues of inertness.
3/ Who doesn’t enjoy looking at gold coins? Here’s:
Nike on a Macedonian stater;
Trajan on an aureus;
Zeus + eagle on a stater from Hellenistic Bactria;
Huvishka on a dinara from the Kushan Empire, c 150 CE;
all images @BritishMuseum #MoneyAtoZ
Nike on a Macedonian stater;
Trajan on an aureus;
Zeus + eagle on a stater from Hellenistic Bactria;
Huvishka on a dinara from the Kushan Empire, c 150 CE;
all images @BritishMuseum #MoneyAtoZ
This Sunday is the 33rd annual @AIDSWalkPhilly—here's a #thread about a different kind of #AIDS walk in #Philadelphia—the city's first candlelight AIDS vigil, in 1986.
#twitterstorians #everythinghasahistory
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#twitterstorians #everythinghasahistory
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@AIDSWalkPhilly The first Candlelight Walk for #AIDS in #Philadelphia took place on September 25, 1986. Earlier that month, the Department of Public Health reported 479 cases of AIDS in the Philadelphia area, and 298 had died.
See video of the walk:
See video of the walk:
@AIDSWalkPhilly Of reported cases, 50% were African American—ten points higher than their share of the total #Philadelphia population. But #AIDS agencies were predominantly white, and rooted in the #Gayborhood, which was itself seen as a mostly white space.
Thanks to @myHNN for reposting my @anxious_bench post on how podcasts help historians speak to a larger public. hnn.us/article/171358 Of course, the problem with recommending just 5 podcasts is that you leave many more off the list. So let's keep going with a short thread...
Caveat audiens: I’ve listened to some but not all of these. So I’ll quote a bit of self-description from each podcast and then a link. Hopefully others will jump on and extend this list of podcasting historians.
1. @BackStoryRadio, “a weekly podcast that uses current events in America to take a deep dive into our past.” (There's that past-present theme again.) backstoryradio.org Hosts include everyone’s favorite Hamilton scholar and Congressional violence expert, @jbf1755.
1. In my family this dish was called Potlagella. My great-grandfather Jacob Covitch, who emigrated from Romania around 1902, used to make it all the time I'm told (he died before I was born). food52.com/blog/23316-bes…
2. I learned how to make Potlagella from my grandmother and mother. It's pretty simple, but quite delicious...a couple times a summer I snag an eggplant at the farmers' market and make a batch. Each time I do so, I think fondly of Jacob and my grandmother and my mother.
3. That @Food52 article does a marvelous job of explicating the history of this dish...a history that resonates with my own family lore, and also taught me several things I didn't know before. #EverythingHasAHistory #EvenEggplantDip
Hey #twitterstorians Inspired by @KevinMKruse @HC_Richardson @rauchway and @TheTattooedProf thought I'd say a little about GOP government giveaway bonanzas in the 1860s, especially helpful to "rugged individuals" who conquered the West.
Why, in 1862 alone, the Republican Congress passed 1) the Homestead Act, giving away millions of acres of public land to (mostly white) men willing to settle in remote places (and UNsettle indigenous inhabitants). Huge entitlement!
2) the Morrill Act, establishing land grant colleges that would anchor education and agricultural development in territories not yet fully under U.S. control. Western universities have always been agents of colonization, folks.
