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1/10: Black history is not a separate entity.
It is a vital part of the very fabric of American history and it continues to play a role in shaping our country’s future.
This thread will help illustrate that point by diving into an important piece of history – the arrival of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
It is a vital part of the very fabric of American history and it continues to play a role in shaping our country’s future.
This thread will help illustrate that point by diving into an important piece of history – the arrival of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2/10: In August 1619, about a year before the Mayflower’s voyage, a ship arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia carrying the first enslaved Africans to English North America.
They were captured from Angola, in present-day West Africa. #1619Project #Juneteenth2023
They were captured from Angola, in present-day West Africa. #1619Project #Juneteenth2023
3/10: The “20 and odd” Africans, as historical documents refer to them, arrived on the “White Lion,” a ship that had captured them from a Portuguese slaver.
They were sold in exchange for food and some were transported to Jamestown, the first permanent English colony.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
They were sold in exchange for food and some were transported to Jamestown, the first permanent English colony.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Here he is, the infamous subject of my PhD research: Charles B. Hudson. A native of Omaha, he wrote an antisemitic, fascist newsletter, "America In Danger!", from 1936-1948, was investigated by the FBI, and charged with sedition 3 times. THREAD 1/
Hudson came to national attention with the above photo which appeared in LIFE magazine in 1939. He'd accompanied noted fascist and antisemite General George Van Horn Moseley to the House on Un-American Activities Committee in D.C. 2/
When Moseley joked that the Committee might have poisoned the cup of water on his desk, Hudson sprung into action, whisking the cup away from the general. A photographer caught him in action, and Hudson's nickname became "Poison Cup Charlie." 3/
Just found a Jefferson quote from after the election of 1800:
If the Federalists tried to usurp the government (steal the election) he was "w/those who were determined not to permit it. because that precedent once set, would be artificially reproduced, & end soon in a dictator.”
If the Federalists tried to usurp the government (steal the election) he was "w/those who were determined not to permit it. because that precedent once set, would be artificially reproduced, & end soon in a dictator.”
There you have it.
If the Federalists had successfully declared a President pro tem (as they were discussing) rather than concede to the outcome of the presidential election, Jefferson and others knew full well that this was a sure pathway to dictatorship.
#HistoryMatters
If the Federalists had successfully declared a President pro tem (as they were discussing) rather than concede to the outcome of the presidential election, Jefferson and others knew full well that this was a sure pathway to dictatorship.
#HistoryMatters
For those asking for the source of the Jefferson quote about stolen elections and dictators:
founders.archives.gov/?q=Author%3A%2…
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As someone who knows more than a little about the history of the railway industry and occupational and public health (both US and UK, actually), I'm rendered almost speechless by what is happening with the possible strikes in the U.S.
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I firmly believe that it is difficult to understand contemporary problems in public health policy and even health care policy in the US w/o really integrating the histories of the railway industry and railway medicine. The connections are LEGION.
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They include:
- basic reasons why private health care is provided by third parties rather than directly from corporations and employers;
- the origins of the #ManufactureOfDoubt in regulated industries;
- accusations of #malingering and feigned illness in social policy;
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- basic reasons why private health care is provided by third parties rather than directly from corporations and employers;
- the origins of the #ManufactureOfDoubt in regulated industries;
- accusations of #malingering and feigned illness in social policy;
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In 2019,Time Magazine ran this story by Olivia B. Waxman on the origins,meaning & implications of fascism. If millions of Americans support the 21st century version of this movement, they should definitely understand it. #Fascists #TrumpCult 1/38
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When Benito Mussolini debuted the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the precursor to his fascist party, on Mar. 23, 1919, in Milan, he wasn’t inventing the idea of violent authoritarianism. But he put a name on a new and terrible breed of it. #Fascism #TrumpCult 2/38
Under his leadership, squads of militants attacked,beat &killed fellow Italians;later, once he had become the authoritarian ruler of Italy,he oversaw brutality in Ethiopia,an alliance with Hitler & the persecution of Italy’s Jewish population and others, among other crimes. 3/38
Russian show trials in Donetsk will begin by targeting three foreign prisoners-of-war--two from Britain and one from Morocco.
Russian news sources proclaim that "this public trial will be watched by the whole world." And that "it will be a kind of mini-Nuremberg. trial of Ukrainian and European Nazism."
svpressa.ru/war21/article/…
svpressa.ru/war21/article/…
This is the start of what the Russian State Media is calling the "Mariupol Tribunal."
February 1st marks the beginning of #BlackHistoryMonth and we will be dedicating much of our #OTD posts to Black history throughout the 19th century, particularly during the Civil War Era. You can read about the origins of Black History Month here: asalh.org/about-us/origi…
With that said, #OnThisDay in 1865, Dr. John Rock became the first African American admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. This occurred the same day President Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment. #History #HistoryMatters #USHistory #AmericanHistory
John Rock lived an extraordinary life. He was a teacher, a prolific abolitionist writer and speaker, a dentist, medical doctor, and lawyer. Rock was born a free man in New Jersey in 1825 and became a teacher at age 19 while studying medicine. #Abolitionist #Teacher
#OTD in 1865 the Thirteenth Amendment passed the House of Representatives, sending it to the states for ratification. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States “…except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."
The amendment ended race-based chattel slavery in America, but did not rid the nation of forced labor, which exists through America’s prison system today. #13thAmendment #Constitution #slavery #HistoryMatters #CivilWar #USCivilWar #AmericanCivilWar #PoliticalHistory #knowhistory
Congress abolished slavery in Washington D.C. in 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation outlawed slavery in rebelling states Jan. 1, 1863 and former rebel states were forced to ban slavery in new state constitutions. Republicans in Congress still wanted a Constitutional Amendment.
Rabindranath Thakur on Bharat in his essay 'The History Of Bharatvarsha':
"Our real ties are with the Bharatvarsha that lies outside our textbooks. If the history of this tie for a substantially long period gets lost, our soul loses its anchorage. After all, we are no weeds.....
"Our real ties are with the Bharatvarsha that lies outside our textbooks. If the history of this tie for a substantially long period gets lost, our soul loses its anchorage. After all, we are no weeds.....
or parasitical plants in India. Over many hundreds of years, it's our roots, hundreds and thousands of them, that have occupied the very heart of Bharatvarsha. But unfortunately, we are obliged to learn a brand of history that makes our children forget this very fact......
It appears as if we are nobody in India; as if those who came from outside alone matters."
No better description.
#decolonize #HistoryMatters
No better description.
#decolonize #HistoryMatters
The Centre for Constitutional Change undertook a study in 2014 called the “border effect”, an observation that trade is higher within countries than between countries. 1/
Prior to vote in 2014, the centre said that “If in the long run, the border between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK border affects trade like the current border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK, then we estimate costs at 5.5 percent of Scotland's GDP 2/
Despite £50,274m oil revenues & £66,662m free fiscal transfers from UK since 2007, they’ve still screwed up educ & health. Since the SNP took power in 2007 UK has paid for 7.2% of ALL SCOTTISH SPENDING Since the Tories came to power it’s almost 9%. Incompetence & Indy not £/power
In #GeneralMaczek memorial in #Breda today - instead of #BlackFriday #shoppingtime ... Trying to understand why the Dutch needed to be liberated by Polish, Canadian, Americans after Soviets broke the nazi backbone in the East front... 😳
I think I know why, but it's rather upsetting: Dutch cheered #nazi thugs, enthusiastically joined the nazi army when #Hitler attacked #USSR, cooperated willfully on deporting their jew compatriotes to nazi concentration camps (visit Dutch chamber in #Auschwitz ) #HistoryMatters
And then Dutch cheered the execution (without prosecution!) of #nazicollaborators #NSB after the liberation - just as enthusiastically as they greeted #nazi thugs in the late 30s - begin '40s 🤦♀️
Inspired by my answer on @askhistorians yesterday, I decided to share a thread about #Slavery in #China. What was slavery like in China? Who were #Chinese slaves? And how did it differ from slavery in the West?
A thread... 1/
#history #twitterstorians #HistoryMatters @AjamMC
A thread... 1/
#history #twitterstorians #HistoryMatters @AjamMC
Slavery in the sense of "coercion of labor from people who are not free to choose their fate" has a long history in China. For the most part, slaves came from various sources and were not always tied to race or ethnicity - although they sometimes were. 2/
Slaves could be peasants, commoners adopted into families, poor children, peasant women, eunuchs, and Chinese or non-Chinese captured in wars. Small amounts of black African slaves were brought by - and usually working under - Europeans and Arab traders. 3/
Looks like I’m up next for #PAScholarStrike! I’ve been tapped to talk about the imperative for organizations to conduct “social justice audits.” #ScholarStrike
In particular, I’m going to be talking about the need to identify the white supremacist roots of our organizations (I’m looking at you academia) and transform how power operates within them—and that traditional approaches to self-study are inadequate and even harmful.
While I’m focusing today on white supremacy, it’s necessary to remember that systems of oppression intersect and therefore any thorough social justice audit needs to consider all forms of oppression within an organization. Approaches to inclusivity need to as well.
#HistoryMatters Just read about this Chinese Schindler. His heroic deed deserves to be remembered. His name is Ho Feng-Shan. He was the Chinese Nationalist government’s Consul to Vienna in 1937. He recognized that the Nazi threat was real and urged the nationalist government to
help Vienna’Jew to escape. When his boss didn’t respond, he acted on his own. He began to issue visas to Jews. He told them that they didn’t need a visa to enter Shanghai, but they would need a visa to escape Austria. By June 1938, 3 mos after Hitler annexed Austria,
Ho issued 300 visas. 4 months later, he issued 1,900 visas. Not all visa holders went to Shanghai, but all were able to use the visas to escape Austria. Some came to the US. At the time when so many nations refused to issue visas to Jews, Ho’s heroic deed saved many lives.
Gopachal rock-cut Jain monuments, also called Gopachal Parvat Jaina monuments, are a group of Jain carvings dated to between 7th & 15th century. They are located around the walls of Gwalior Fort, Madhya Pradesh.
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#HistoryEncyclopedia #MonumentsOfIndia #India #IncredibleIndia
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#HistoryEncyclopedia #MonumentsOfIndia #India #IncredibleIndia
Gopachal Parvat Jaina monuments depict Tirthankaras in seated Padmasana posture as well as standing Kayotsarga posture. The Gopachal monuments include standing and seated Shri Adinatha, Neminatha,
Parshvanatha & Shri Mahavirasvami
📷2: Shri Adinatha.
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Parshvanatha & Shri Mahavirasvami
📷2: Shri Adinatha.
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Urvahi group: In both sides of the road, just before entering the hilltop fort gate. Thse are the most visited since they are visible from the road itself. There are six inscriptions from 1440-1453 AD.
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#HistoryEncyclopedia #MonumentsOfIndia #HistoryMatters
#HistoryMatters a thread – recent weeks have highlighted issues of how British history is taught, what gets taught as British history & why this matters. How we understand the past has implications for the politics of the present... 1/n
Who is seen to belong in the present is often related to our understanding of who ‘we’ were in the past. If we imagine ourselves historically as a nation, then politics in the present in organised in those categories... 2/n
If we understand that ‘we’ have always been constituted through empire, then those understandings require transformation. How we conceptualise that empire also matters in terms of who is acknowledged as belonging today... 3/n
Humans have the brains to learn, talk, feel, and think. We use all of our abilities in different ways. We are also proud of what we can do. We say our brains are like a supercomputer but much better. We also say that no other organism can be better than us. (1/6)
However, just because other species don't eat like us or look like us, it does not mean that they are not smart.
All around us, there are species that can do spectacular things, which we cannot do. (2/6)
All around us, there are species that can do spectacular things, which we cannot do. (2/6)
Purchase of ALASKA from Russia by USA
(What USA Gained and Why Russians Repent)
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On 30 Mar 1867, US Secy of State, William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 mn (Equals $113 mn today; much less than cost of a Boeing 777 which is $320.2 mn).
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(What USA Gained and Why Russians Repent)
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On 30 Mar 1867, US Secy of State, William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 mn (Equals $113 mn today; much less than cost of a Boeing 777 which is $320.2 mn).
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With a stroke of pen, Tsar Alexander II ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to USA.
Although, there were and still are many who justified his action. The circumstances of 19th century prompted him to take such step. In US, critics thought...
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Although, there were and still are many who justified his action. The circumstances of 19th century prompted him to take such step. In US, critics thought...
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... Seward was crazy and called the deal "Seward's folly." Seward was laughed at for his willingness to spend much on an ‘icebox’.
US Senate however ratified the treaty that approved the purchase by just ONE VOTE.
Ultimately, buying Alaska proved to be a very good move.
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US Senate however ratified the treaty that approved the purchase by just ONE VOTE.
Ultimately, buying Alaska proved to be a very good move.
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1. Poem by Cordelia Ray written for the dedication of Emancipation Monument:
To-day, O martyred chief, beneath the sun
We would unveil thy form; to thee who won
The applause of nations, for thy soul sincere,
A living tribute we would offer here.
To-day, O martyred chief, beneath the sun
We would unveil thy form; to thee who won
The applause of nations, for thy soul sincere,
A living tribute we would offer here.
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Twas thine not worlds to conquer, but men’s hearts;
To change to balm the sting of slavery’s darts;
In lowly charity thy joy to find.
And open “gates of mercy on mankind.”
And so they come, the freed, with grateful gift,
From whose sad path the shadows thou didst lift.
Twas thine not worlds to conquer, but men’s hearts;
To change to balm the sting of slavery’s darts;
In lowly charity thy joy to find.
And open “gates of mercy on mankind.”
And so they come, the freed, with grateful gift,
From whose sad path the shadows thou didst lift.
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Eleven years have rolled their seasons round
Since its most tragic close thy life-work found.
Yet through the vistas of the vanished days
We see thee still, responsive to our gaze
As ever to thy country’s solemn needs.
Not regal coronets, but princely deeds
Eleven years have rolled their seasons round
Since its most tragic close thy life-work found.
Yet through the vistas of the vanished days
We see thee still, responsive to our gaze
As ever to thy country’s solemn needs.
Not regal coronets, but princely deeds
🇺🇸The Attack on American History Must STOP!🇺🇸
The attack on our history is an ongoing and coordinated attack by Democrats and liberals and is being used as a method to pander to whom they see as “their voters”.
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The attack on our history is an ongoing and coordinated attack by Democrats and liberals and is being used as a method to pander to whom they see as “their voters”.
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Democrats and liberals are pushing the idea that a vast amount of our county’s history is “racist” and needs to be erased and forgotten.
They are using race as a political tool to help win the support of minorities so they can win an election.
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They are using race as a political tool to help win the support of minorities so they can win an election.
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They have total disregard for our true history. The fact that some minorities view our history as “racist” is proof that their “pandering” is nothing new and unfortunately works well for them since their base buy into this divisive narrative every four years.
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Ganesha at Liberty Cinema. Late Nazir Hoosein (Owner of Liberty) relates: In 1994 Barjatya’s of Rajshri Productions wanted to release Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (HAHK). “We love your cinema, & we want to put our new picture here, but you’ll have to change the sound system.” Contd.
I said, “It will cost me 10 lacs. What happens if your film bombs?” So they said “If it bombs, we’ll pay you whatever you’ve paid for the sound system.” I said done. No agreement, nothing. Just a good handshake. The rest, as they say, is history. Contd.
‘’From 5 Aug 1994, HAHK ran 44 consecutive house full weeks, a total of 125 weeks and about 2 million people saw it over 2,625 shows. I think that’s a record for a single screen theatre. The Ganesha was gifted by Rajshri’’. It still adorns the lobby. Contd.
Someone (still) needs to hear this:
The Civil War was about slavery...and the money that the elite made through the economic exploitation of the enslaved.
📜From the 1861 Mississippi Articles of Secession...
docsouth.unc.edu/imls/missconv/…
#CivilWar #historymatters
The Civil War was about slavery...and the money that the elite made through the economic exploitation of the enslaved.
📜From the 1861 Mississippi Articles of Secession...
docsouth.unc.edu/imls/missconv/…
#CivilWar #historymatters
White Mississippi leaders knew the Civil War was about slavery when they seceded in January 1861, but plenty of people today deny the very words of the Confederates.
#CivilWar #history
#CivilWar #history
Don't overlook the invocation given at the convention where white Mississippi lawmakers agreed to secede from the Union. White Christians colluded in the perpetuation of race-based chattel slavery. That "institution"...it's peculiar...it's slavery.
#CivilWar #ColorofCompromise
#CivilWar #ColorofCompromise
This is some fanmail I got in response to a post I wrote about my visit to the propaganda-infused, Lost Cause- celebrating Jefferson Davis Presidential Museum in #Mississippi. First he starts with the "pro-Confederate blacks" myth.
Then he moves on to say that racism is not at the "forefront" of American society today. He says this within a week of a photo surfacing that shows college students in Mississippi posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled historical marker dedicated to #EmmettTill.
And, of course, anyone who says racism is still an ongoing, pervasive, and urgent issue is a.... Democrat 😱! Then he cites the Democratic party platform of the 19th century to further demonize the party and completely ignores the way parties have changed positions over time.
