Jur
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Maybe esp. Phil Deloria's NYer piece on "the Invention of Thanksgiving." I still send that around to a lot of folks this time of year. Hope you and yours are where you wish to be, in all ways, this week/end. 4// www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Maybe esp. Phil Deloria's NYer piece on "the Invention of Thanksgiving." I still send that around to a lot of folks this time of year. Hope you and yours are where you wish to be, in all ways, this week/end. 4// www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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So my Atlantic World lecture lined up with Thanksgiving and I got to debunk these claims. I even said "You are going to hear people of a certain political motive make these claims and now you know how they aren't true".
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So my Atlantic World lecture lined up with Thanksgiving and I got to debunk these claims. I even said "You are going to hear people of a certain political motive make these claims and now you know how they aren't true".
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Don’t ever work for someone who doesn’t believe in work-life balance if you can at all avoid it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Don’t ever work for someone who doesn’t believe in work-life balance if you can at all avoid it.
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Thank you Franz-Stefan Gady for your very generous review of my book:
"The Crusader States and Their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099–1187"
Published in "War, Conflict and the Military" (2025).
Link to review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"The Crusader States and Their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099–1187"
Published in "War, Conflict and the Military" (2025).
Link to review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@hoanssolo.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thank you Franz-Stefan Gady for your very generous review of my book:
"The Crusader States and Their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099–1187"
Published in "War, Conflict and the Military" (2025).
Link to review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@hoanssolo.bsky.social
"The Crusader States and Their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099–1187"
Published in "War, Conflict and the Military" (2025).
Link to review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@hoanssolo.bsky.social
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Het is vandaag de Internationale Dag voor de Uitbanning van Geweld tegen Vrouwen - geweldtegenvrouwenmelden.nl/data-en-cijf... #orangetheworld #25november
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Het is vandaag de Internationale Dag voor de Uitbanning van Geweld tegen Vrouwen - geweldtegenvrouwenmelden.nl/data-en-cijf... #orangetheworld #25november
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De Russische ambassade stelde vandaag dat de Russen Amsterdam en Nederland in 1813 bevrijd hebben, maar de historische waarheid is zoals verwacht enorm rijkgeschakeerd. Een kleine reconstructie van het Russische handelen in het woelige jaar 1813
De niet-Russische bevrijding van Nederland
Gelukkig echter is dit niet nodig geweest. Een detachement kozakken, op dringend verzoek hierheen gezonden en gecommandeerd door een uitermate beschaafde aanvoerder, heeft dit alles tot een einde g…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
De Russische ambassade stelde vandaag dat de Russen Amsterdam en Nederland in 1813 bevrijd hebben, maar de historische waarheid is zoals verwacht enorm rijkgeschakeerd. Een kleine reconstructie van het Russische handelen in het woelige jaar 1813
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Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...
BOOK RAFFLE: ENTANGLED ALLIANCES
Ronaldo Angelo Johnson, Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). In conjunction with Ronaldo Johnson and Corne…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...
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Howard Pyle’s 1906 painting, “The Battle of Nashville,” depicts the attack of two Federal brigades against rebel positions near Shy’s Hill. Many of the troops involved were Minnesotans. Pyle’s painting created a stir among veterans, some of whom felt slighted by the artist’s depiction of events.
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Howard Pyle’s 1906 painting, “The Battle of Nashville,” depicts the attack of two Federal brigades against rebel positions near Shy’s Hill. Many of the troops involved were Minnesotans. Pyle’s painting created a stir among veterans, some of whom felt slighted by the artist’s depiction of events.
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Also, I had no idea that this made a minor note in some national news sites yesterday & that my name was mentioned. In all those mentions one journalist, just *one*, bothered to reach out to me to ask permission to use the photos and get a quote.
That's the state of journalism in this country.
That's the state of journalism in this country.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Also, I had no idea that this made a minor note in some national news sites yesterday & that my name was mentioned. In all those mentions one journalist, just *one*, bothered to reach out to me to ask permission to use the photos and get a quote.
That's the state of journalism in this country.
That's the state of journalism in this country.
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Een ‘zondvloedland,’ zo karakteriseerde ik het beeld van de Lage Landen in 17de- en 18de-eeuwse geleerde natuurgeschiedenissen. Het denken over het verleden van de Aarde bewoog tussen Bijbelse zondvloed en de volgende dijkdoorbraak, tussen schriftgeleerden en turfstekers. 1/
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Een ‘zondvloedland,’ zo karakteriseerde ik het beeld van de Lage Landen in 17de- en 18de-eeuwse geleerde natuurgeschiedenissen. Het denken over het verleden van de Aarde bewoog tussen Bijbelse zondvloed en de volgende dijkdoorbraak, tussen schriftgeleerden en turfstekers. 1/
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Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
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Tonight on Ken Burns's American Revolution, Rick Atkinson is going is going to tell you:
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Tonight on Ken Burns's American Revolution, Rick Atkinson is going is going to tell you:
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
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Since people seem to have appreciated this, a closer look at this painting.
IWM ART LD 1514 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
IWM ART LD 1514 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Since people seem to have appreciated this, a closer look at this painting.
IWM ART LD 1514 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
IWM ART LD 1514 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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Looking forward ward to travelling to London tomorrow to present some tentative research from the COLVET project on how veterans in the interwar French Empire shifting the contours of citizenship. Come one, come all. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colonial-v...
Colonial Veterans and Citizenship in the French Empire
Presenting research from the project, Ex-Soldiers of Empire; Towards a Comparative History of Colonial Veterancy in the Interwar Period.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Looking forward ward to travelling to London tomorrow to present some tentative research from the COLVET project on how veterans in the interwar French Empire shifting the contours of citizenship. Come one, come all. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colonial-v...
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Dit bewijst dat er een groot publiek is dat behoefte heeft aan onze verhalen uit 't verleden, geschreven in wervelend proza op basis van wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Ik zal het tot in den treurnis herhalen: dit is tevens een oproep naar collega's om de hand uit de reiken naar de rest der samenleving.
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Dit bewijst dat er een groot publiek is dat behoefte heeft aan onze verhalen uit 't verleden, geschreven in wervelend proza op basis van wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Ik zal het tot in den treurnis herhalen: dit is tevens een oproep naar collega's om de hand uit de reiken naar de rest der samenleving.
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It’s publication day for Law, Society and Political Culture in Late Medieval and Reformation Germany! At last, the key sources from the Holy Roman Empire - laws, treaties, and polemics - are available in English translation. #medievalsky #earlymodern
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It’s publication day for Law, Society and Political Culture in Late Medieval and Reformation Germany! At last, the key sources from the Holy Roman Empire - laws, treaties, and polemics - are available in English translation. #medievalsky #earlymodern
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
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Speaking of revolutionary era maps, see many of them for yourself at argomaps.org #HATM
Home - American Revolutionary Geographies Online
American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) is a portal containing thousands of maps from dozens of institutions that bring to life the history and geography of the American Revolutionary War era...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Speaking of revolutionary era maps, see many of them for yourself at argomaps.org #HATM
Well deserved praise for Matthew Taylor's Black Redcoats! A good read and a valuable contribution to a really understudied subject
Pretty blown away by this #review from Templer Award winner Kevin Linch,who put me on his list for the Society of Army Historical Research Annual Book list. #History #books #Blackhistory
November 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Well deserved praise for Matthew Taylor's Black Redcoats! A good read and a valuable contribution to a really understudied subject
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Affiche voor toneelstuk Lucifer van Vondel, 1910.
Omdat Joost vandaag jarig is. 🎉🎂🎁
Omdat Joost vandaag jarig is. 🎉🎂🎁
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Affiche voor toneelstuk Lucifer van Vondel, 1910.
Omdat Joost vandaag jarig is. 🎉🎂🎁
Omdat Joost vandaag jarig is. 🎉🎂🎁
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I spoke to @bloomberg.com for this great article about the grim consequences of South Africa's abandoned mines at a time when gold prices are soaring:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Deadly Scrabble for Gold in Johannesburg’s Abandoned Mines
The soaring price of gold is fueling illegal mining that’s shredding parts of the landscape close to South Africa’s biggest city.
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I spoke to @bloomberg.com for this great article about the grim consequences of South Africa's abandoned mines at a time when gold prices are soaring:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Dinsdag 2 december, voor liefhebbers van Leidse geschiedenis. Ik ben er ook bij, zijnde een van die auteurs.
We are delighted to organise a book launch together with the editors of 'A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden', in Leiden itself - home to Brill since 1683!
The event will be in Dutch.
brill.com/display/titl...
@judithpollmann.bsky.social @peterheijkoop.bsky.social #Leiden #medievalsky
The event will be in Dutch.
brill.com/display/titl...
@judithpollmann.bsky.social @peterheijkoop.bsky.social #Leiden #medievalsky
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Dinsdag 2 december, voor liefhebbers van Leidse geschiedenis. Ik ben er ook bij, zijnde een van die auteurs.
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Very excited for this - should be getting my copy soon!
A few of us designers have been privileged to follow along while @stoutstoat.co.uk chipped away at this project for the last few years.
It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.
It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.
Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts
Writers and archaeologists also worked on a new guide to a lost early medieval Scottish society.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Very excited for this - should be getting my copy soon!
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I have extremely strong opinions on protecting refugees. Every time this comes up I feel the need to post something, but I never know what to say. I can't believe I even need to say anything.
Without Britain taking refugees I would not exist. My family would have been wiped out.
Without Britain taking refugees I would not exist. My family would have been wiped out.
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I have extremely strong opinions on protecting refugees. Every time this comes up I feel the need to post something, but I never know what to say. I can't believe I even need to say anything.
Without Britain taking refugees I would not exist. My family would have been wiped out.
Without Britain taking refugees I would not exist. My family would have been wiped out.