Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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**How the Phoenicians Laid the Foundations For Modern Commerce and Civilization**
🔗 https://lithub.com/how-the-phoenicians-laid-the-foundations-for-modern-commerce-and-civilization/.
🇺🇸 **An 18th Century Survey of the Roads of the United States of America**
#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #USA #UnitedStates #C18th
🖥️ **Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World’s First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.**
_Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people”_
#History #Histodons #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Psychology #Technology #Tech #STEM
🇺🇸 **Congress to Explore Designating the Site of a Confederate Massacre of Black Soldiers as a National Historical Park**
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/congress-to-explore-designating-the
🏴 📖 **Sexual politics in revolutionary England**
"_Over the next two decades, sexual politics evolved into a vital component of public discourse, as contemporaries utilized sexual satire to reframe the English Revolution as a battle between licentious Stuart tyrants and their lecherous puritan enemies._"
🔗 https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175908/.
#EarlyModern #England #UK #UnitedKingdom #History #Histodons #Politics #Culture #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Academia #UniversityPress
🇷🇺 **How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century**
"_Our findings reveal that serfdom resulted in high inequality and extraction levels as well as low social mobility despite of low levels of enforcement by the state. We compare our results with those for 1904 and find that, in spite of emancipation, inequality remained high during the nineteenth century._"
Korchmina, E. and Malinowski, M. (2026) ‘How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century’, The Journal of Economic History, pp. 1–42. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050725101071.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Economics #Serfdom #Russia #Moscow #Inequality #C19th #Academia
🇨🇳 **Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China**
"_We demonstrate that recurrent flooding and prolonged droughts, combined with an unsustainable shift in crop production from drought-tolerant millet to less resilient wheat and rice, led to harvest failures and food shortages during the cooler and drier climatic conditions of the late 9th and early 10th centuries CE. Intensifying raiding from competing polities and climatic extremes further affected grain supplies for the late Tang’s northern military frontier and partly contributed to the sudden decline of the dynasty._"
Kempf, M., Depaermentier, M.L.C., Spengler III, R.N. et al. Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China. Commun Earth Environ 6, 1003 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-03038-x.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #ClimateChange #TangDynasty #China #Academia
🇳🇴 **The Government of Norway allocates nine million NOK to save the Viking sleds**
"_In order to save the unique wooden sleds from Oseberg, they must be conserved using a method that does not exist yet._"
🔗 https://www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/news/norwegian-gov-funding.html
🇺🇸 🎙️ **The Copperhead Conspiracy**
"_A group of Northerners, angry at President Lincoln, conspired with Confederates to plan an armed insurrection intended to topple the governments of several midwestern states and free tens of thousands of Confederate prisoners from Union prisons, hoping they would force an end to the Civil War with the Confederacy intact and slavery still legal. It would have worked, except for a Union spy who was embedded in their midst._"
🔗 https://reckoningradio.org/copperhead-conspiracy-episode-1-introduction/
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #USA #UnitedStates #Confederacy
**2 states have a Robert E. Lee state holiday on Martin Luther King Day**
#History #Histodon #Mississippi #Alabama #RobertELee #MLK #Holiday #Vacation
📚 **Your Personal History Curriculum for 2026: A Curated Reading List from Top Historians**
🔗 https://jeffrich.substack.com/p/your-personal-history-curriculum.
#History #Histodons #ReadingList #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
🇺🇸 📖 **Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America**
"_In 1942, Hitler’s Nazi regime trained eight operatives for a mission to infiltrate America and do devastating damage to its infrastructure. It was a plot that proved historically remarkable for two reasons: the surprising extent of its success and the astounding nature of its failure._"
🔗 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/41414/saboteurs-by-michael-dobbs/.
#Nazi #USA #UnitedStates #History #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
🇳🇴 **How a Sudden Winter Storm in 1617 Sparked the Deadliest Witchcraft Trials in Norwegian History**
📖 🎙️ **Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World**
"_Over time, English observers started to assert that the common customs of enslavement among the nations of Africa fit within the Roman model. Englishmen had initially expressed reluctance to take part in the Atlantic slave trade. But once assured that the slave trade could be traced back to customs they understood to be legitimate, they proved keen to profit from it._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/intellectual-origins-of-american-slavery.
#History #Histodons #Slavery #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Audio #Podcast
🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 **1807-09: How The Peninsular War Began**
"_This documentary explores the brutal beginnings of the Peninsular War, from the bloody Madrid uprising to Sir John Moore’s harrowing retreat to Corunna._"
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24kwmJGL7aA.
#Video #Documentary #History #Histodons #Spain #Portugal #UK #UnitedKingdom #France #Iberia
📖 **Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent**
"_Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world._"
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691273334/surviving-rome.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #History #Histodons #Rome #Economy #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France's prestigious 'Grand Mathematics Prize' is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are 'lost in the mail' — Jan. 9, 1816**
"_Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined to attend the award ceremony because the committee members didn't respect her work._"
🇯🇵 🇺🇸 **Samurai and Guerrillas: The First Official Japanese Visit**
_The first Japanese delegation to the US captivated crowds and confounded expectations, as the press cast its samurai as “effeminate.”_
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/samurai-and-guerrillas-the-first-official-japanese-visit/.
#History #Histodons #Japan #USA #UnitedStates #USPol #Politics #Diplomacy #Samurai
#Image attribution: Mathew Benjamin Brady, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-Japanese_Embassy,_Navy_Yard,_Washington,_DC-_MET_DP229934.jpg.
🎞️ **Buster Keaton’s ‘The General’: Why do we root for a confederate soldier?**
🔗 https://theboar.org/2026/01/buster-keatons-the-general-why-do-we-root-for-a-confederate-soldier/
#History #Histodons #Confederacy #Film #Movie #Cinema #BusterKeaton
#Image attribution: Buster Keaton Productions, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buster_Keaton_attempts_to_enlist_in_The_General.jpg.
📚 🎥 **Gutenberg & the European Invention of Printing**
"_This talk examines what Gutenberg actually invented and why it could create such a big change. It looks at the books Gutenberg produced and uses them to tell the story of the technical and economic problems that had to be solved._"
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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