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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🇺🇸 📖 **Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870**
"_Associating American citizenship with liberty and equality, Scandinavian immigrants openly opposed slavery and were among the most enthusiastic foreign-born supporters of the early Republican Party. However, the malleable concept of citizenship was used by immigrants to resist draft service, and support a white man's republic through territorial expansion on American Indian land and into the Caribbean. Consequently, Scandinavian immigrants after emancipation proved to be reactionary Republicans, not abolitionists._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/civil-war-settlers/FA57A6A7FAFBB55A40482369AEA61330.
#OpenAccess #OA #Academia #Nonfiction #Books #History #USA #UnitedStates #Scandinavia #Immigration #Migration
🇺🇸 📖 **The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America**
"_Proving once again what a miracle it is we’ve made it this far._"
🗺️ 🎥 **SECRET MAPS – Exhibition Private View**
"_Curators Tom Harper, Nick Dykes and Magdalena Peszko lead us into the hidden landscapes of history, where maps don’t just show the world — they shape it, conceal it and reveal its silent truths._"
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfrsaX7lABk.
#Video #History #Maps #Cartography #Library #UK #UnitedKingdom
🇺🇸 📖 ** The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth Century Immigration Debate**
"_Kim’s analysis shows that throughout US history, the opportunity for belonging for some immigrants was predicated on the exclusion of others._"
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo257660942.html.
#USA #UnitedStates #History #Sociology #Race #Ethnicity #Immigration #Migration #Nonfiction #Books #Academia
**The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking**
"_The depictions of flower petals in the geometric sequence of the numbers 4, 8, 16 and 32, as well as 64 flowers in another type of arrangement, point to arithmetical knowledge._"
Garfinkel, Y., Krulwich, S. The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking. J World Prehist 38, 14 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-025-09200-9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #History #Maths #Mathematics #Mesopotamia #Pottery #Art #Culture #Academia #Research
🇨🇭 **Volunteers find two of the oldest gold coins in Switzerland**
#Gold #Coins #Numismatics #History #Switzerland #Archaeology
🇨🇿 **Hittite-Style Carvings and Cuneiform Found in a Czech Cave: An Archaeological Puzzle from Kateřinská Cave**
**Practicalities of Letter Delivery in Antiquity**
🔗 https://brentnongbri.com/2025/12/20/practicalities-of-letter-delivery-in-antiquity/.
**Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall infected by parasites, study finds**
💧 **The vilest of all beverages**
"_Historian Katherine Harvey explores the sometimes strange beliefs medieval people had about water, and how they informed their methods for staying healthy._"
🎥 **The Simplest Unsolved Ancient Problem**
"_Ancient Greek mathematicians wrestled for centuries with a seemingly pointless problem that led them to rich mathematical discoveries._"
🎥 **Modern Myths about the Age of Homer**
"_Archaeologist Bryan Burns surveys ancient finds from Troy and Mycenae and their connection to Homeric epics, addressing common misconceptions about the Late Bronze Age in scholarship and popular culture._"
📚 🇺🇸 **Buy University Press Books This Holiday Season**
"_It’s so incredibly important to support these publishers. They are still, in large part, responsible for pushing fields of study like history and specifically the Civil War era into new and exciting directions._"
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/buy-university-press-books-this-holiday
#USA #UnitedStates #History #Histodons #UniversityPress #Books #Bookstodon
📖 **The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642**
"_A brilliant account of how the seeds of battle were sown._"
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Review #Books #Bookstodon
#Image attribution: William Faithorne, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Charles_I_Met_DP886208.jpg.
🇮🇹 **A Thousand and One Nights in Italy**
"_In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style._"
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-thousand-and-one-nights-in-italy/.
#Essay #History #Histodons #Architecture #Orientalism #Art #Culture #Italy
#Image attribution: Vincenzo Paganori, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_by_Vincenzo_Paganori_of_Castello_di_Sammezzano_02.jpg.
🏴 📖 **Making Babies in Early Modern England**
"_Early modern English people were obsessed with making babies. In this fascinating new history, Leah Astbury traces this preoccupation through manuscript letters, diaries, recipe books and almanacs, revealing its centrality to family life._"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009602846.
#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #EarlyModern #England #Health #Medicine #Gender #Academia #Books #Bookstodon
⌛ 🏴 **Timekeeping in Early Modern England**
"_In early modern England the time and date was often an informal matter, which had the potential to pose problems._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/timekeeping-early-modern-england.
🇺🇸 📖 **The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding**
"_The author’s new book focuses on two “tragic contradictions”: the Founding Fathers’ failure to adopt measures to eliminate slavery in the new nation or to grant security for America’s native tribes."
🇺🇸 **More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.**
"_The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents_"
🔗 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/.
#History #Histodons #Slavery #Archives #Database #USA #UnitedStates
🇳🇴 **Over a span of 150 years, a billion Islamic silver coins may have flowed into the Viking world**
_"Here you see part of the driving force behind the Viking Age," says a Norwegian coin expert._
#History #HIstodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Numismatics #Silver #Coins #Norway #Scandinavia
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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