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🇬🇧 **Joseph Banks: the man who collected the world**
"_He made his name on a voyage around the world alongside Captain James Cook, before becoming a friend of King George III and one of the most influential men in Britain._"
🎥 **The $2 Million Lost Book of Archimedes**
"_A prayer book holding hidden text reveals long-buried secrets from the greatest mathematician of the ancient world._"
#Video length: forty minutes and forty-two seconds
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNIgHov0Nk
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Archimedes #Book
🇺🇸 **The Birth of Birthright Citizenship**
"_A Chinatown cook's fight to re-enter the U.S. in 1895 went up to the Supreme Court, which upheld his claim to birthright citizenship and guaranteed it for all through the 14th Amendment._"
🔗 https://www.americanheritage.com/birth-birthright-citizenship.
📚 🏴 **Prominent Scottish mathematician's personal library sells for £800k**
"_Highlights of the sale included Stirling's own exceptionally rare first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's ANALYSIS Per Quantitatum SERIES, FLUXIONES, AC DIFFERENTIAS, which sold for £100,800, and Stirling's own copy of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, generally considered to be the most important scientific book ever published, which sold for £42,840._"
🔗 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25568603.scottish-mathematicians-personal-library-sells-800-000/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Books #Auction #Edinburgh #Scotland
**How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World**
"_Often romanticized and glorified as a triumphant moment in Western histories, Columbus’s travels wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, which became one of the key areas for European expansion and subsequently violent accumulation._"
**Sumerian civilization may have been jump-started by the rise and fall of tides**
"_Millennia before the first cities, early Mesopotamians probably harnessed tides to irrigate crops_"
**Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829**
_This article uses four overlapping maps to tell four overlapping stories: James Cook’s circumnavigation of the island in 1763–8; Lt David Buchan’s trek into the interior to contact the Beothuk in 1811 and 1820; William Eppes Cormack and Joseph Sylvester’s trek across the island in 1822; and finally, a series of story-maps created by Shanawdithit, who is apocryphally known as ‘the last of the Beothuk’._
Laite, J. (2025) ‘Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, pp. 1–32. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440125100479.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #Academia
**Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery**
"_To them, Egypt represented the archetype of a great hierarchical civilization. Older than Athens or Rome, Egypt conferred a special legitimacy. And just like the pharaohs, the white elites of the South saw themselves as the stewards of a prosperous society sustained by enslaved labor._"
#History #Histodons #Dixie #USA #US #UnitedStates #Racism #Slavery
🌊 📖 **The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History**
"_The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, ships, and cities that have made the Gulf's human history and culture so rich._"
🇺🇸 📖 **The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right**
"_How West Texas business and culture molded the rise of conservatism in the United States_"
🔗 https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477332641/.
#Academia #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #Texas #USA #US #UnitedStates #USPol #Politics
**Harbours and Beaches Alongside a Forgotten Sea: Terra Nova’s Legacy**
"_The legacy of Terra Nova is all around us. You can go to the store to buy bacalao,dry-salted cod,that is nearly identical to what was being made and eaten in 1542. To this day, salt cod is a beloved food in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Caribbean cookery. Fishing is still big business in Canada and New England, heirs to the colonial legacy that began at Terra Nova five centuries ago._"
🏴 **Excavations reveal town's 1,400-year history**
"_Decades-worth of excavations have confirmed Ipswich as England's oldest town with continuous occupation on the same site, according to an archaeologist._"
📖 **The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion**
"_In The Invention of Infinite Growth, environmental historian Christopher F. Jones takes us through two hundred and fifty years of economic thinking to examine the ideal of growth, its powerful influence, and the crippling burdens many decisions made in its name have placed on us all._"
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo253356508.html.
#History #Economics #Environment #Academic #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
📖 **The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London**
"_Olivia Weisser's remarkable history invites readers into the teeming, vibrant pox-riddled streets of early modern London. She uncovers the lives of the poxed elite as well as of the maidservants and prostitutes who left few words behind, showing how marks of the disease offered a language for expressing acts that were otherwise unutterable._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/dreaded-pox/8C6FB43D373BF4BB088AF614980F1240.
#EarlyModern #London #History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Academic #Books #Bookstodon
**The Economic Geography of American Slavery**
"_We find that the economic impacts of emancipation are substantial, generating welfare gains for the enslaved of roughly 1,200%, while reducing welfare of free workers by 0.7% and eliminating slaveholder profit. Aggregate GDP rises by 9.1%, with a contraction in agricultural productivity counteracted by an expansion in manufacturing and services driven by an exodus of formerly enslaved workers out of agriculture and into the U.S. North._"
Treb Allen, Winston Chen, and Suresh Naidu, "The Economic Geography of American Slavery," NBER Working Paper 34356 (2025), https://doi.org/10.3386/w34356.
#Academia #Research #History #Histodons #Economics #Slavery #USA #US #UnitedStates
🇺🇸 📖 **Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis**
"_Drawing from veterans' firsthand accounts as well as mental asylum and hospital records, government and medical reports, newspaper coverage of addiction, and advertisements, Jonathan S. Jones unearths the poorly understood stories of opiate-addicted Civil War veterans in unflinching detail, illuminating the war’s traumatic legacies._"
🔗 https://uncpress.org/9781469689531/opium-slavery/.
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Academia #Books #Bookstodon
🇺🇸 **The President Who Re-Segregated the Federal Government**
"_This is not the first time Washington, D.C., and the nation have witnessed a President and his administration dismantle equity and segregate the federal government. Over a century ago, Woodrow Wilson (in office from 1913-1921) reversed decades of racial integration and inclusion efforts—what might now be called “DEI”—in federal employment._"
📖 **Settler Colonialism as a Structure? Structural Logics, Long-Term Patterns, and Critical Reflections**
"_Drawing on diverse case studies – from ancient Mediterranean societies to contemporary visions of settling Mars – contributors critically examine key questions: What defines settler colonialism? How does access to land shape its dynamics? What socio-political and cultural forces underpin settler expansion?_"
Pelgrom, J. and Six, C. (2025) 'Settler Colonialism as a Structure? Structural Logics, Long-Term Patterns, and Critical Reflections,' books.ugp.rug.nl https://doi.org/10.21827/68db7d21df8a1.
#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #Academia #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Loyalists, race and Atlantic Canada**
"_Learn about how the resettlement of American Loyalists after the War of Independence reshaped the British Empire._"
🔗 https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/loyalists-race-and-atlantic-canada.
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🏴 **James Stirling library to be auctioned in Edinburgh**
"_Stirling’s copy of Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which is generally considered to be the most important scientific book ever published, is another highlight of the auction. It’s estimated to fetch between £10,000 and £20,000._"
🔗 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25548234.james-stirling-library-auctioned-edinburgh/
#Edinburgh #Scotland #News #History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Auction #Books
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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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