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And welcome to Historians At The Movies! Tonight we celebrate the 40th birthday of #ReturnoftheJedi by livetweeting Episode VI on @DisneyPlus @ 8pm eastern! (And yes, if @MarkHamill responds to this international livetweet, I'll probably die, er become one w/ the Force.) #HATM 1/
If tonight is your first night, we are glade you're here! For almost five years we've gathered each week to laugh, cry, and historicize. But we do it as a COMMUNITY. And you're invited! #HATM 2/
#HATM isn't just for historians. It's a community made of anyone who loves history, movies, or movies about history. Everyone is welcome here. 3/
As we rest, reflect, & remember on this holiday weekend, here’s my 129th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to help ya do all three! Enjoy, & share more below, please. #twitterstorians
Starting with a few favorites from the week as usual, including @ehphd’s delightful thread of some of the best Tina Turner scholarship in honor of the icon’s passing:
Taryn White wrote for @SmithsonianMag on Edna Lewis, the mother of soul food:
smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/e…
smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/e…
What do you get for a 125th anniversary? It’s your lucky day, ‘cause the answer is my 125th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians
Starting with a few favorites from the week as usual, including @felixmooreactor for @PinkNews on an early fight for trans rights (h/t @DamselDystopia):
thepinknews.com/2023/04/24/san…
thepinknews.com/2023/04/24/san…
While @AaronLecklider wrote for @Slate on a fascinating discovery about queer history long in the making:
slate.com/human-interest…
slate.com/human-interest…
And welcome to Historians At The Movies! Tonight we are revisiting one of the great sports and WWII films ever with A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN on @PrimeVideo at 8pm EDT. #HATM 1/
If tonight is your first night, we’re glad you’re here! For over four years we’ve gathered to laugh, cry, and historicize. But we do it as a COMMUNITY. And you’re invited! #HATM 2/
This scene reminds me of a true story. Great Awakening evangelist Geo. Whitefield died & was buried in the crypt of a Presb. church in Newburyport, MA. Some 🇬🇧s stole his bones to "return him home." In time, the church got em back. The thighbone is on display in the narthex #hatm
(or was when I saw it back in the mid-90s)
There was a winding staircase in Solomon's Temple that represented the climb to truth? I'm starting to think this movie takes some liberties. #hatm
National Treasure is premised on people in government keeping a secret
American history is literally the opposite of that, every single time
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American history is literally the opposite of that, every single time
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Will be joining this in about 3 minutes. Some of y'all may want to mute me for the next 2 hours. And then you can forget to unmute me tomorrow, and that's a double win for you! #hatm
Does anybody else get National Treasure and The DaVinci Code mixed up? #hatm
#HATH Ms. Hutchinson graduated from college in 2019. Whatever we're about to hear, I cannot imagine the threats that have already been made against her, how many will be made, and the fact that she's the age of students who have graduated since I started this job.
#HATH And here we go. January 6th and names.
#HATH I mean, so Giuliani and Meadows knew about plans for J6. Intel reports about the threat of violence on J6, in large quantities, from numerous groups. Ratcliffe worried in December about the threat to democracy because of things the administration was pushing. Just... yeah.
I've usually just watch #HATM from afar and have never participated, but I hear that tonight we are watching Disney's Encanto and I couldn't stay away. Plus it's an excuse to talk about flowers in Encanto. (Warning: Spoilers) A Thread.
As a historian of flowers, I am sort of in love with the depiction of Colombian floriculture in this movie. In the film, Isabela, the oldest of Mirabel's sisters, has the magical power of creating flowers - a symbol of her beauty and perfection.
But her perfect flowers, roses, carnations, bougainvillea, hide the pressure she feels to maintain her idyllic nature and do what is best for the family - even marrying a man she doesn't love. But with Mirabel's encouragement, she puts aside the need to produce perfect flowers.
Tonight is the #HATM Wicked party... and since Wicked is an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, I'm going unload my version of the Oz allegory on you all.
Strap on your 🧹 this is going to be a long thread...
Strap on your 🧹 this is going to be a long thread...
[General caveat: I am a generalist and defer to actual experts on populism, the 1890s, and Frank Baum.]
1st - there is no historical record that Frank Baum intended the original Wizard of Oz stories (1st published in 1900) as an allegory for contemporary political events
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1st - there is no historical record that Frank Baum intended the original Wizard of Oz stories (1st published in 1900) as an allegory for contemporary political events
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Baum was a journalist prior to Oz, he was from the midwest where the Populist movement was strongest, he wrote about politics during the era, and some of his other Oz stories seem to allegorize other political movements (suffrage, for example).
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Weirdly enough, I read this book before I saw the movie. And it's one of the rare cases where the movie and book are both excellent, but for different reasons
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Welcome to a very special Historians At The Movies! Tonight we are joined with our friends in Australia for QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER starting at 8pm EST/ 12pm AEDT on @netflix & @StanAustralia! #HATM #HATMAus 1/
If tonight is your first night, we're glad you're here! #HATM #HATMAus is the longest running watch party on twitter- Every week for over two and half years we laugh, we cry, and we historicize. But we do it as a COMMUNITY. And you're invited! 2/
Playing along is simple. Just follow me @joelgbarnes @chelseambarnett or the #HATM #HATMAus hashtags. At 8pm EST/12pmAEDT push play on QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER and tweet along, tagging your posts with #HATM #HATMAus so everyone can join in. Easy as can be! 3/
~THERE WILL BE BLOOD~ Netflix watchalong begins in 30 minutes -- push play and join us at the Historians at the Movies theater, run by the capable @HerbertHistory ! Hashtag: #HATM
Kicking us off: this is a movie about oil (and much more). Here are some oil facts:
Kicking us off: this is a movie about oil (and much more). Here are some oil facts:
DYK: Oil still provides more of the world's commercial* primary energy resources than any other fuel.
*Commercial meaning: I'm not counting the fact that the sun grows plants, heats our homes, lights our days, etc. unless it's turned into a saleable product first
*Commercial meaning: I'm not counting the fact that the sun grows plants, heats our homes, lights our days, etc. unless it's turned into a saleable product first
First* oil well: Drake's Well, Titusville, PA, 1859
*in the sense that Americans claim it was the first one drilled with the express intent of producing oil commercially
(There are a lot of asterisks about oil facts (tm) )
*in the sense that Americans claim it was the first one drilled with the express intent of producing oil commercially
(There are a lot of asterisks about oil facts (tm) )
1/ Good morning students and teachers,
Tonight at 8pm, @Histflix on twitter will be hosting a social viewing of the Academy Award nominated documentary 13th. #histflix #dochuistory
Tonight at 8pm, @Histflix on twitter will be hosting a social viewing of the Academy Award nominated documentary 13th. #histflix #dochuistory
2/ This powerful film traces the history of African Americans and the criminal justice system since the ratification of the 13th Amendment following the Civil War. This film will give you some important context to the anger that people are feeling across America right now.
3/ I encourage you to join us in watching and discussing the film. We all simultaneously push play on the film on Netflix or YouTube at 8pm. You can communicate with others via the hashtag #histflix
Here is the trailer to the film.
Here is the trailer to the film.
In my conversation with @HC_Richardson @HarvardBooks on Wednesday, a viewer asked how we can spread historical literacy. We rattled off a list of ideas, so I thought it would be helpful to put them all in one place. A thread /1
We applauded the inclusion of civics curriculum in schools, including relatively new additions in states like Massachusetts, and organizations like @icivics that help with that effort. /1
Lots of historians are doing fantastic public-facing work. Some of the examples we included: @jbf1755's Thursday morning sessions on why history matters with @historyed /2
Atheists at the movies! #AATM
Yesterday, I invited a few of Twitter's godless luminaries to watch a movie together and live-tweet about it. Thursday, April 30 at 8pm central we'll be watching a classic piece of anti-atheist propaganda, God's Not Dead. Watch along on Netflix or...
Yesterday, I invited a few of Twitter's godless luminaries to watch a movie together and live-tweet about it. Thursday, April 30 at 8pm central we'll be watching a classic piece of anti-atheist propaganda, God's Not Dead. Watch along on Netflix or...
...Amazon Prime. Just start the movie at 8pm central, and tune in to the #AATM hashtag, and watch with your heathen Tweeps. So far, myself, @C_Stroop, @LucienGreaves, @DebGod, and @LeighannLord subjecting themselves to this cruel and unusual act for your enjoyment. More are...
... invited and so are you. We're taking a page out of the Historians at the Movies (#HATM) playbook and hoping to build community. Join us. Invite your favorite Twitter atheists to join in too. All are welcome.
(Still wondering how this will work? Read bit.ly/3390ZnS )
(Still wondering how this will work? Read bit.ly/3390ZnS )
#medievaltwitter my 12 year old has started writing a historical fiction remash of robin hood and peasants revolts. (Yes, @ me, that’ll tell her). She needs names 1) historically appropriate for peasants 2) « not, like, really ugly »
We need your help 1/
We need your help 1/
Yes, #earlymodern I did try to impress her with the benefits of setting it in the #18c but she wasn’t interested with heroes called Catherine Hayes, Squire Nonsuchfool or Jeanne-Joseph-Françoise de la Baume Esperges de Quitterie 2/
She also needs the name of an English town where peasants would have met both weavers and foreigners at the fair because that’s part of the mystery plot and she doesn’t want to be told off by #medievaltwitter. And no, Nottingham doesn’t work. Already taken.3/
Fans of Historians At The Movies, we have some huge announcements today. Join us this Saturday night, April 4 at 8:30pm eastern on @netflix for our first viewer’s choice pick: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. #HATM
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Then, on Sunday night at 8:30pm join us and special guest cohost @e_b_bobadilla to live tweet Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN. #HATM 2/
Of course, this Wednesday, April 1, we’ll continue watching SELF MADE with @SciHistoryOrg at 8:30pm Eastern. #HATM 3/
So I promised you a big week at Historians At The Movies, and here we go. THREAD.
Join us this Wednesday, March 25 at 8:30pm Eastern on @NetflixFilm @netflix as we partner with @SciHistoryOrg to live tweet the entire series of SELF MADE over the next four weeks. #HATM 1/
Join us this Wednesday, March 25 at 8:30pm Eastern on @NetflixFilm @netflix as we partner with @SciHistoryOrg to live tweet the entire series of SELF MADE over the next four weeks. #HATM 1/
Then on Saturday, March 28 at 8:30pm Eastern on @netflix guest cohosts @KevinMKruse and @julianzelizer are questioning if history really does repeat itself when we live tweet GROUNDHOG DAY. #HATM 2/
Finally, y’all want some #medievaltwitter? #HATM has you covered. @prof_gabriele will be with us on Sunday, March 29 at 8:30pm Eastern on @netflix to talk ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES.
It’s an epic week so keep our community growing by retweeting and we’ll see you soon!
It’s an epic week so keep our community growing by retweeting and we’ll see you soon!
Fans of Historians At The Movies, get ready for your #SocialDistancing holiday with THREE movies this week! Join us this Wednesday, March 18 at 8:30pm eastern on @netflix for HARLEM NIGHTS, cohosted by @loumoore12! #HATM 1/
Then, on Saturday, March 21 at 8:30pm eastern on @netflix, dive into the history of epidemics with OUTBREAK, cohosted by @nursingclio #HATM 2/
Following up on @EADHistory's thread we want to share our work in Marketing the History Major from #AHA20 #s279. From 2013 to 2016 we had a 27% decline in major numbers; since 2016 we are up 12% for majors and up 20% when you include minors with majors. 1/19
We currently have the most juniors we've had since 2013. From 2013 to 2016 there were 39% fewer HIST majors reaching junior standing @UofOklahoma. Since 2016, there are 42% more HIST majors reaching junior standing. We're adding (avg) 2+ HIST grads, 9 majors every spring 2/19
Our work in reversing this decline has 3 aspects: curricular changes; supporting professional advising; and targeted data outreach.
Curricular: in 2009 we added 2 majors-only courses to help create community among our students + bolster their skills. 3/19
Curricular: in 2009 we added 2 majors-only courses to help create community among our students + bolster their skills. 3/19
So I'm still processing my thoughts about The #CurrentWar.
My immediate reaction upon leaving the theater: This film is custom-made for a crossover between @SocHistTech and History at the Movies (#HATM).
(@HerbertHistory-If this comes to pass, let me know!)
#histSTM (1/17)
My immediate reaction upon leaving the theater: This film is custom-made for a crossover between @SocHistTech and History at the Movies (#HATM).
(@HerbertHistory-If this comes to pass, let me know!)
#histSTM (1/17)
A few additional thoughts: The movie makes it very clear that the #CurrentWar was between Edison & Westinghouse.
Yes, Tesla is there too (more on him in a moment), but the system-builders (cf. Hughes) are front and center.
(2/17)
Yes, Tesla is there too (more on him in a moment), but the system-builders (cf. Hughes) are front and center.
(2/17)
I was also pleasantly surprised to see Mary Stillwell Edison and Marguerite Erskine Walker Westinghouse featured prominently in the film. The latter is actually referred to as George's wife & business partner.
(3/17)
(3/17)
I will start by saying that I am in favor of opening up all barriers to literature (whatever that means) and history—particularly when it comes to anything having to do with the Early Medieval and Early Modern. #HATM
However, I sit here, astounded, that a film can simultaneously attempt to make 14th century history and the 16th century play (I assume it is just the Shakespeare one) that could be both insultingly basic and exclusionary.
This version of Henry V (with a strange few minutes dedicated to 1 Henry 4) is truly indicative of the Trump era and Brexit.
Reminds me that Forrest Gump's mother named him after Nathan Bedford Forrest, because "sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense." It's quite a tenacious myth that racist KKK terrorism was just some "wacky thing" that white people "used to do."
I was reminded of this tidbit by this excellent conversation with @williamrblack on the @NostalgiaTrap podcast. nostalgiatrap.com/episodes/2019/…
@williamrblack @NostalgiaTrap Another fascinating thing I learned from that conversation is that none other than Pat Buchanan loved Forrest Gump because he thought it was a deeply conservative film. I remember vaguely having that sense when I saw it on the big screen in 1994.
