#Historians

Expanding a Bit on this:● Delhi/Delhika hasn't really been "Important" city from Hindu Civilizational perspective (Post Mahabharat). It was more important for Invading k2as because of it's proximity to Punjab,
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A few passages that didn’t make it in to the recent pieces I wrote for the Chronicle:https://www.chronicle.com/article/beyond-the-end-of-history 1) If historians can say nothing about how history can enhance human life
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Hey, look who's back and needs attention!No, I won't produce any new threads until you answer the old ones that you ran away from.Here, I'll do you a favor and
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I see that we're discussing language learning and historians again, so I'd like to give a few cents of my own as someone who actually reads a lot of languages
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It is interesting how Marathi School Historians like D.R. Bhandarkar bend over backwards in trying to reinforce the claim that there are no Kshatriyas, at least not real.Regional belief bias
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Last night I opened YT and saw the link to a video suggestion about Hermann Der Cherusker and “The Teutoburger Forest Massacre”.I started watching it and it was the perfect
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Next side quest---"Get Structure"---is open for my history writing seminar, and I'm going to post a twitter-friendly version of it here: #acwri #twitterstorians Writing something the length of a dissertation/book
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A thread on the #SHEAR2020 plenary session yesterday: Documentary editors find, transcribe, annotate, and publish sources for other scholars. Very loosely speaking, documentary history is a project centered around a
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Hemachandra Vikramaditya (Hemu)Raja Hemchandra Vikramaditya or as popularly referred to as Hemu, was the Wazir at the court of the fourth Sultan of the Sur Dynasty, Adali or Muhammad Adil
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One awkward thing about #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay is that people cite the entirely made-up stat that 11 million people were killed in the Holocaust. WRONG. 6 million Jews were killed by
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A thought about space historiography: recent years have seen a decided move away from the superpowers and their rivalry, this approach has a lot to recommend itself, (1/) historians are
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This #1776 thing is absurd. @DrIbram is right. The lack of citations, primary sources, serious historiographical & scholarly apparatus = clear tell this is a political "hack-job" masquerading as an
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(1) With the royal wedding coming up there's a good chance you're going to hear about King George III's "mixed race" wife CharlotteLike most Afrocentric history the theory that Charlotte
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Crap about history gets published. Historians freak out. Why do we care about Wodan weddings in England? It's not like someone is publishing misleading articles about science, right?It matters. It
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Whether you’re conservative or liberal is not the pertinent question at the present moment.Today’s game is whether or not you’re an AMERICAN who believes in our CONSTITUTION and our LAWS.
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New editors in-chief: Rachel Boertjens, curator of Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana; @BartWallet, historian at Vrije Universiteit & University of Amsterdam; David Wertheim, director of Menasseh ben Israel Institute; & Irene E. Zwiep,
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