#histodons
Working with notarized contracts can be a slog. Fortunately, my system has decided to render gray as pink for my most recent batch of scans, making the task less monotone, if still generally monotonous. #histodons #archives @histodons
Hit me up with your best ChatGPT/AI uses in archives, libraries, or historical organizations. Can it write a MARC record or EAD?
On this day (3/20) in 2020 Tiger King was released on Netflix.
#netflix #wtf #fact #funfact #info #Tv #television #information #history #histodons
Attending this week’s conference of the American Society for Environmental History? Read on for all things EHN in Boston 👇
#OnThisDay, 20 Mar 1985, Libby Riddles is the first woman to win the 1,100-mile trans-Alaska #Iditarod dog sled race.
#WomenInHistory #WomenInSport #MondayMotivation #histodons
Online talk, organized by the Group d'#histoire de Montréal / Montreal #History Group, Thursday, March 23, 12-1pm (EST):
Dan Rück (University of Ottawa), "Seeking Collaborative and Ethical Archival Research in History"
#histodons #Indigenous #FirstNations #colonialism #archives #CdnHist #HistQC @histodons
Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/ghm-mhg9
In 19C NYC, everyone knew who to go to to end an unwanted pregnancy: the French-trained Madame Restell, who lived in a mansion on 5th Ave. In reality, Madame Restell was Ann Trow Lohman & she had never even been to France, but she managed to combine medical skill with her public persona to become tremendously wealthy, while providing a needed service. Madame Restell did her best to evade the authorities; then Anthony Comstock knocked on her door.
#histodons #podcast
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1469, Cecily of York was born. Cecily was a daughter of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV, and her childhood was a time of instability, war, and personal tragedy. After 1485, her fortunes took a dramatic upturn as her sister, Elizabeth of York, was made queen upon her marriage to Henry VII. Cecily married John Welles, and they had a happy union until his death. She then married Thomas Kyme. She died in 1507, at the age of 38.
The COCARETTE was a cigarette made with coca & tobacco leaves, c.1885. The company claimed that coca was “the finest nerve tonic and exhilarator ever discovered.”
#histodons #histmed #histodon #medhist #medhistorian #medmastodon #believeitornot #DYK
Just for fun, #histodons: you are in a repository going through folders or sleeves of loose photos. Do you put them back:
20 March 1943 | The first transport of Jews deported from ghetto in Thessaloniki arrived at Auschwitz with 2,800 men, woman and children.
During the selection SS doctors chose 417 men & 192 women who were registered. The remaining 2,191 people were murdered in gas chambers.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Thessaloniki #Greece
20 March 1943 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Bernhard Sanders, was born in Schalkwijk.
He arrived at Auschwitz on 27 January 1944 in a transport of 948 Jews deported from Westerbork with his mother Johanna and father Willem. All three were probably murdered in a gas chamber.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Netherlands #family #children
“either sloppy or brilliant. Here’s hoping it’s the latter” @histodons #histodons #academicMastodon https://www.washingtonpost.com/tv/2023/03/18/amc-lucky-hank-odenkirk-review/
Twenty years ago, the Iraq War began. A war of choice, and a choice built on a false narrative about weapons of mass destruction. A war that caused over 400k deaths and for which no one in power in the US was ever held accountable.
I remember at the time thinking that the leaders who dragged America into this needless and costly war had experienced the Vietnam War. People are supposed to learn from history so as not to repeat it, but what happens when people refuse to do so? What does it take to turn lessons of the past into productive change in the future?
Conferences generate and rely on material culture and infrastructures.
We've been building a gallery of conference objects on our website, here: https://sciconf.nu/gallery/
The gallery is a work in progress. Do get in touch if you have any images of objects to contribute - we'd love to expand the gallery and will keep adding to it.
#histodons #history #internationalism #scihistodons #histsci #STS #HERA #conferences #materialculture
20 March is World Sparrow Day.
This music imitates the song of the sparrow, and comes from the Bird Fancyer's Delight, John Walsh, 1715.
#worldsparrowday
#sparrow
#otd
#onthisday
#baroquemusic
#earlymusic
#recordermusic
#sopranino
#18thcentury
#birdsong
#sheetmusic
#histodon
#histodons
#sparrows
#OTD in 1912: The legend of the East #Harlem #MurderStable is launched with the shooting death of Mrs. Pasquarella Spinelli. Underworld figure Aniello "Zoppo" Prisco is suspected of the killing but never arrested for it. #NYC #Murder #MafiaHistory #Histodons
Read more here:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/03/owners-killing-is-start-of-murder.html
Today in 1896, Wop May was born. The last Allied pilot pursued by the Red Baron, he pioneered the bush pilot role later in life.
He is well remembered for his roles in The Hunt For the Mad Trapper, and the Race Against Death.
#Canada #History #Histodon #Histodons #Canadian #Pilot #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #FWW
https://canadaehx.com/2019/12/30/the-legendary-exploits-of-wop-may/
Today in 1939, Brian Mulroney was born.
He served as Prime Minister from 1984-1993. As PM, he brought in NAFTA, GST, privatized 23 Crown Corporations, signed an acid rain treaty & passed the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
#Cdnpol #Cdnpoli #Canpol #Canpoli #Canadian #Canada #History #Histodon #Histodons
#OTD in 1815, Napoléon is acclaimed back in Paris. He enters the city unopposed and goes to the Tuileries palace to establish his new government. Louis XVIII had fled during the night. The “vol de l’aigle” was over. War would soon ensue though… #history #Napoleon #histodons
Thank you to everyone who attended the opera event and the opening of the Prize Papers exhibition "The Prize Papers in 10 Photographs", which is now on display on the first floor of The National Archives, UK, in London.
We thank Natalie Brown in particular for her hospitality & all the guests for their great interest & lively discussions – a wonderful evening!
Visit us on-site or online: https://materiality.prizepapers.de/exhibition/the-prize-papers-in-10-photographs
#history #histodons @histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodernmaritimestudies
#StokeOnTrent's Potteries #Museum has got a grant to fund an exhibition about #Lidice, among other things.
This is great news on the surface. I'll be very pleased to see a permanent exhibition about the Lidice story.
But not long ago, the council slashed the budget, made staff redundant, and reduced opening hours. Given all that, will they be able to maintain the new extension?
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/5m-arts-council-cash-secured-8266919
#histodons #SecondWorldWar
@histodons @militaryhistory @worldwarshistory
Just a special library stamp for Flugschriften (pamphlets) in Quarto from a German library.
That's it, that's beautiful, that's the toot. #histodons
Les ours avaient-ils besoin d'un passeport ? Et leurs montreurs ? CC2S vous propose un petit voyage au XIXe siècle, en compagnie de Johanna Daniel.
C'est mercredi à 20h30, sur notre chaîne Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ca_coule_de_sources
#histoire #history #histodons #histodon
Running a class today with masters students on “spatial imaginaries”. We tried to offer an introduction and via footnotes some readings on the concept (aka “mental maps”) in our Guide to Spatial History here: https://spatialhistory.net/guide/spatial-imaginaries.html
Said’s Orientalism is the most famous example but other examples we’ll talk about today: “the West”, “Eastern Europe” and Japanese imaginaries of “Southeast Asia”:
Frisch gedruckt: #WerkstattGeschichte 87/2023
Den Beitrag von @sms gibt es übrigens als Leseprobe komplett zum download bei unserem Verlag https://twitter.com/@transcriptweb:
Sarah-Maria Schober, Durchdringend. Gerüche und emotionale Verschränkung in frühneuzeitlichen Warenkunden, https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6351-8/werkstattgeschichte/
@earlymodern @histodons @historikerinnen
#SmellStudies #SmellHistory #EarlyModern #histodons #earlymodons #Emotionsgeschichte #Sinnesgeschichte #HistoryOfEmotions
I was rarely mansplained to on the other site, but I managed to net this humdinger. Sometimes the stars just align...
Join me on Wednesday at 12:30 on Zoom for a 1st look at my next project on women & politics at the Bryn Mawr Visual Culture Colloquium. Register at link below.
“Seeing Women in Politics: Visual and Material Representations of Women’s Political Participation in America, 1776-1876.”
https://brynmawr-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ldOutpzIjHd0b3pUU24vuJoRvTOCx1wdn
“We love Elon. He’s the innovator of our time,” says more about our time than it does about Elon.
#histodons
@histodons https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/19/elon-musk-tesla-driving/
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1568, Elizabeth Seymour died around age 50. She was a younger sister of Jane Seymour, a consort queen (3rd wife of Henry VIII). Not much is known about Elizabeth's early life. Likely born at Wolf Hall, she was well educated, excellent at needlework, and served at least three English queens in their households (Anne Boleyn, Anna of Cleves, and Katherine Howard). She wed thrice and seemed to have been happy in each marriage.
#OTD #histodons @histodons @royalhistory
I guess I'm not surprised that there is virtually no observance that today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the #IraqWar. I've only seen one toot that references it (besides my own) and nothing on any other media. This important part of history has already gone down the memory hole. So much for the cliché that history is supposedly important so we can "learn from our mistakes." No one, in fact, is even the slightest bit interested in learning from our mistakes.
#histodons
In the 1930s, Listerine cigarettes were created. The tobacco was infused with the same antiseptic oils used in the mouthwash for a "cooling and soothing effect." Listerine cigarettes were evidently not very popular because there is almost no record of their existence.
#histodons #histodon #histmed #histsci #DYK #medhist #medmastodon
Very early #OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French resistance.
She was also the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.
#WomenInHistory #HeroinesOfSOE #WorldWar2 #BritishTVHistory #histodons
Happy Minna Canth day, Finland!
Born #OnThisDay, 19 Mar 1844, Minna Canth. Finnish playwright and social activist. Public buildings will fly the national flag to celebrate.
Any fans of the 1997 Italian #cyberpunk movie 'Nirvana' out there?
It is an absolute guilty pleasure of mine, and not just for Christopher Lambert, the Highlander himself, jacking in to cyberspace. #hacking #history #histodons #movies
Indian freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai lived in Berkeley, CA in 1916, and I’ve been trying to figure out where.
The trip shows up all over the 3/1916 issue of The Hindusthanee Student and in his book Young India.
I found an address—at a street number that didn’t exist. Friday, I rang the doorbell at a house on the block, and while they didn’t know about Rai, had all kinds of interesting things to say about local history.
1/n
On Friday's episode of my live webcast "History Matters," we talked about America's longstanding hatred of banks (and I read aloud a favorite bad 18th century poem about the Bank of the United States. Trust me. It's bad.)
Catch it here:
Publicity shot and album cover for “Ella and Louis.” Recorded August 16, 1956.
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, along with the Oscar Peterson Trio – Oscar on piano, with Herb Ellis (guitar), Ray Brown (bass) and Buddy Rich (drums).
#Photography #Music #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #BlackExcellence #BlackJoy #histodons #History
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. SOE was a secret British organisation working with the French resistance.
“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”
#HeroinesOfSOE #WomenAtWar
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons #WorldWar2 @histodons
@auschwitzmuseum
RIP Gerard 🕯⚘️
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We should #neverforget and definitely #neverforgive
#facts #otd #memory #remember #Memorial #WW2 #neverforget #germany #nazis #histodons #history #Jews #shoah #holocaust #Birkenau #auschwitz
Between 1851 and 1910 the ratio of men to women arriving in NYC from Ireland was roughly equal. Irish women often took jobs in domestic service, drawn by the provided housing, food, and clothing, which allowed them to send the bulk of their earnings back home to Ireland.
Listen & learn more on #UnsungHistory!
🎧: https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/irish-immigration
#HappyStPatricksDay #StPatricksDay #Irish #LuckOfTheIrish #History #WomensHistory #WomensHIstoryMonth #Podcast #Podcasts #Immigration #Immigrants #histodons
"Mankind are easier deceived than undeceived."
"Il est plus facile de tromper le monde que de le détromper"
From the title page of a 1785 book. Proving true 240 years later. #histodons
Only two variants of paper books present in this print from Jan van Stalburch (portraiting Gemma Frisius, a scholar, in 1557): a tiny, very tiny notebook on the table, and bound #backwardbooks in extreme order. #bookhistory #histodons
For more details on the #astrolabe etc. enjoy this: http://www.astrolabium.be/mesurercieletterre/Portrait-de-Gemma-Frisius?lang=fr
17 March 1939 | A French Jewish boy, Gerard Levy, was born in Paris.
In December 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts
Having to ask other #histodons to serve in various unpaid and underappreciated roles is underlining yet again just how broken #academia and the basic infrastructure of our disciplines are. The models we operate under can't possibly be sustainable. We are all at the very least overworked and so many of us are burnt out, whether we're on medical leave or not. #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter @academicchatter @academicsunite
Preliminary program, Canadian Historical Association / Société historique du Canada, Annual Meeting, May 29-31 (Toronto)
Drop by and see our panel on Indigenous Peoples, Property, and Settler Law in 19th-Century Ontario (May 29) and stay for all sorts of other great work.
@histodons #histodons #CdnHist
https://cha-shc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ONLINE-CHA-Program-Revised-Mar-16-2023.pdf
Obituary of the bestselling historical novelist John Jakes, whose books sold 50 million copies, or something crazy like that. He didn’t take vacations and often wrote 5000 words a day. That’s Trollope territory. Hats off. #bookstodon
#historicalfiction #histodons
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/books/john-jakes-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
A woman and her dog in Harlem, New York City, May 1943. Photographer; Gordon Parks
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #BlackFriday #histodons #History #BlackAndWhite #Photography
“had Hitler and his Nazi generals not been so obsessed with the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion within their institutions, the Third Reich as we know it would still be around today”
@histodons
#histodons https://www.theonion.com/conservative-historian-claims-diversity-ultimately-doom-1850233848
#Harvard has fought tooth & nail to retain control over the images of enslaved people in its possession.
David J. Harris:
> Despite the University’s public posturing about healing the legacy of #slavery, Harvard has acted very much like a corporation defending what it considers its property. It fails to acknowledge the differences between possession & ownership, the law & justice, or abstract truth & honest human emotion.
Hey folks!
Tomorrow on my live webcast, "History Matters:"
Why We Hate Banks
Americans have hated -- and loved -- banks since the 18th century. Why?
Join me to explore the history of bank hate -- and what it says about America.
Friday (tomorrow) 10AM ET
http://NCHEteach.org/conversations
#history #histodons #politics #banking #hamilton #capitalism #podcast
RT. A moving thread by John Bull (@garius).
“On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.
As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:
A massacre.
He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons”
https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius/110033106139765776 #MyLaiMassacre #WarCrime #Atrocity
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.
As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:
A massacre.
He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons
#OnThisDay, 16 Mar 1876, Rose Harland and Nelly Saunders step into the ring at Harry Hill's bar for the first all-woman boxing match in the USA.
[no illustration of their fight exists]
#WomenInHistory #SportsHistory #WomenInSport #Histodons #NYCHIstory
[THREAD 1/16] #histodons @histodons
Thirty-five years ago today—16 March 1988—Saddam Hussein’s regime in @iraq dropped chemical bombs on the town of #Halabja, murdering thousands. In honor of the dead and the survivors, I’d like to briefly explore the history of a half-baked claim about the “real” culprits behind this horrific attack on #Kurds: namely, the idea that #Iraq didn’t do it.
(No graphic images in this thread. CW for #genocide denial.)
Watch a new 4-part series about the intriguing trajectory of chess from Ancient India to the Sasanian Empire to the Golden Age of #Islam to Medieval Europe, highlighting different chess variants across Asia: shogi, xiangqi, and chaturanga.
DETAILS: https://ideasroadshow.com/chess/
#history #histodons #medieval #chess #India #Asia #documentary #games @histodons
@AnitaAnand
Pele and President Gerald Ford play with a soccer ball in the Rose Guard, White House, 1975.
#history #photo #photography #histodon #histodons #pic #70s #president #soccer #pics
15 March 1900 | A Pole, Jan Chmielewski, was born in Józefów.
In #Auschwitz from 30 April 1942.
No. 34107
He was shot in the camp on 25 June 1942.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts
14 March 1943 | A transport of some 2,000 Jewish men, women & children arrived at Auschwitz from the liquidated ghetto in Cracow.
During the selection SS doctors decided that 484 men & 24 women would be registered in the camp. The remaining - probably 1,492 people - were murdered in gas chamber II.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Krakow #ghetto
Weird question for #histodons: I’m looking for a world map from the late pre-1914 period published in Austria—basically one that shows the Austro-Hungarian worldview, rather than the British, French, or German ones that we usually see.
Anybody know of a good-quality scan of such a map?
(Bonus points of we can find Ottoman, Chinese, Japanese, etc. maps of similar vintage!)
Han Feizi (c. 280-233 BC), was an influential Chinese philosopher of the Warring States period.
His works on statecraft provided a theoretical foundation for autocratic absolutism. They were admired by China's First Emperor, and the Second Emperor quoted from Han's essay “The Five Vermin”.
Yet the collapse of the Qin dynasty, as well as his own downfall, are emblematic of the arbitrary harshness of unrestrained personal rule.
Heilige Scheiße, wie cool ist denn diese Idee? Wenn man ein nicht digitalisiertes Dokument aus einem weit entfernten Archiv braucht, schickt die App eine Push-Nachricht an Historiker, die gerade im Archiv arbeiten. Gegenseitige Hilfe. 😍 https://sourceryapp.org/ #histodons
Recordings of the recent Kerry Civil War Conference - anyone who missed the #civilwarinkerry conference - the recordings of all three keynotes, and all six panels plus the round table are available here
https://kerrycivilwarconference.ie/recordings/
#irishcivilwar #irishwmnhist #decadeofcentenaries #histodons #mastodaoine
Two interesting posts, and a short video, about how the entire #Guernsey #police force was arrested in 1942.
https://island-fortress.com/2022/03/05/guernseys-entire-police-force-arrested-5-march-1942/
https://island-fortress.com/2023/03/10/the-robin-hood-policemen-part-two-a-film/
#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes the provisional president of Haiti, the first woman to hold the role.
She had been the first woman to be a judge in Haiti and the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court. As provisional President, she organised the country’s first democratic elections since the 1950s.
Spot the difference!
One needs a bailout and the other should be discharged in bankruptcy. 🧐
@histodons
#histodons
@politicalscience
I had no idea that a member of White Rose, the anti-Nazi resistance group, was still living. Her obituary (no paywall). #histodons #holocaust
#OnThisDay in #history -
in 1708, Queen Anne refused to give her royal assent to the Scottish Militia bill (which had passed both Houses, Commons and Lords). This effectively meant that the bill was vetoed and did not become law.
This was the last time that the royal prerogative of withholding assent was used. Anne's predecessor, William III, had vetoed 6 bills, but no British monarch after Anne did (for Britain - colonies were another matter).
"Han Feizi’s essays on statecraft were admired by the First Emperor, and the Second Emperor is said to have quoted from Han Feizi’s work 'The Five Vermin' ...
[He] provided a theoretical and philosophical foundation for autocratic absolutism. Yet the collapse of the Qin dynasty, as well as his own downfall, are emblematic of the arbitrary harshness of unrestrained personal rule."
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a black woman to debut on Broadway.
#WomensHistoryMonth
#WomenWriters #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #BroadwayHistory #Histodons #BlackHistory