What historical event fascinates you the most?
Where have you been? It’s wild out here. ðŸ˜
(Cave Paintings, Ancient Egypt, and The Bronze Age Collapse, if you insist)
#dailysnark
Harmony for whom?
What could you let go of, for the sake of harmony?
Go ahead and Neville Chamberlain your life. Next, you’ll need Allies to get everyone out of the mess you “Peace at all Cost” yourself into. And all at a very high price.
#monday
The Women
Who is your favorite historical figure?
There are too many to count, but the following ladies Changed Things:
Mitochondrial Eve
Queen Hatshepsut
Queen Boudica
Murasaki Shikibu
Hildegard von Bingen
Maryam Al-Astrulabi
Eleanor of Acquitaine
Elizabeth I
Ada Lovelace
Jane Austen
Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley
Phillis Wheatley
Harriet Tubman
Florence Nightingale
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Josephine Baker
Virginia Woolf
Simone de Beauvoire
Toni Morrison
Wangari Maathai
Maya Angelou
I’m pretty sure a whole number of amazing historical women are missing here. Feel free to add more Women Who Changed Things.
#women #history
*Hannah Arendt has entered the chat*
Do you vote in political elections?
Whoever thinks voting is trivial lives in deep ignorance, both of history and their place in it.
#smdh
Story Time
Describe something you learned in high school.
We had fantastic history teachers who taught pattern recognition and insisted on historical context.
They were big on Nothing is inevitable and Look at who’s telling the story.Â
One history teacher especially was all about Double-check your sources because liars be lying.
They took their time to show us how oftentimes the biggest lies are the ones that make people feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Basically, if something felt like the perfect explanation with zero nuance, then someone was selling a story for some kind of profit. They set up exercises so we could find the story, identify the profit, and figure out the nuance.
Rather than tell, they showed us the complexity of human experience. And, they made us think, even when we didn’t want to. They made us sit in our discomfort. And gave us room to argue our points, especially if we argued well. That didn’t mean they agreed. They expected us to take the heat if we were already trying to prove them wrong.
Were they perfect? No. They had their foibles. But they were genuine educators who were passionate about their subject and were given the space to actually teach it. Which is how we got a capital E Education, and yes, I am grateful.
Makes The Horrors pretty horrible, though, ngl…
#timelines
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