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🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016

_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._

Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024..

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🔴 🇺🇸 American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016

_After describing American imperial activity in the late nineteenth century, the authors of the 1961 text Men and Nations: A World History claimed that by establishing “an empire of colonies and protectorates in the Caribbean and the Pacific” the United States “had taken its place as one of the great powers of the world”. [63] The authors claimed that the United States possessed a humane and civilising empire: “Probably the countries were never better governed or enjoyed greater freedom from wars, revolutions, financial crises, and national bankruptcies. Yet these benefits were not always welcomed by the Latin Americans”._

Jackson, S. (2024) ‘American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016’, Paedagogica Historica, pp. 1–21. doi: doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024..

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🔴 🇳🇴 Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga

"Here we apply palaeogenomic analysis to human remains excavated from a medieval well at the ruins of Sverresborg Castle in central Norway. In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains."

Ellegaard, M.R. et al. (2024) 'Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga,' iScience, p. 111076. doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.11.

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🔴 🇺🇿 🎥 Uncovering a lost mountain metropolis

"The finding of these urban centres, called Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, at such high altitudes, may mean that highland areas may have played a more important role in medieval trade than previously thought."

length: eight minutes and one second.

🔗 youtu.be/EUlKEJfEvgU

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🔴 📖 Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire

"...brings together scholars of Achaemenid history, literature and religion, Iranian linguistics, historians of the Ancient Near East, archeologists, biblical scholars and Semiticists. The goal is to better understand the interchange of ideas, expressions and concepts as well as the experience of historical events between Yahwists and the empire that ruled over them for over two centuries."

Barnea, G. and Kratz, R. 2024. Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire: Professor Shaul Shaked in Memoriam. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi.org/10.1515/9783111018638.

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🔴 🇯🇵 Return to utopia? Vision and practice of the Japanese right at Yasukuni shrine

"As argued elsewhere, right-wing ideologies are constructed on a distinctive ontology and explanations for political phenomena.[67] In Japan, this has emerged around the issue of war-history: exonerating Japanese colonial history is not only a matter of national pride but considered to be central to political power. This emerged in the 1980s in response to issues such as history textbooks, territorial disputes, and re-writing the constitution, and carries on today. [68] It was around this time that the Yasukuni shrine also reemerged as the focal point for such reactionary historical revision in popular consciousness."

Narita, K. (2024) ‘Return to utopia? Vision and practice of the Japanese right at Yasukuni shrine’, Journal of Political Ideologies, pp. 1–22. doi: doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2024..

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🔴 🎥 Frankish Encounters with Paganism (with Prof. Alex Sager)

"Prof. Alex Sager (University of Georgia) returns to talk about Frankish records of Germanic paganism and the conversion."

length: one hour and forty six minutes.

🔗 youtu.be/pkplfVd2DPE

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🔴 🇮🇪 Three letters, one number, a knife and a stone bridge: how a graffitied equation changed mathematical history

"Yet Hamilton’s revelation changed the way mathematicians represent information. And this, in turn, made myriad technical applications simpler – from calculating forces when designing a bridge, an MRI machine or a wind turbine, to programming search engines and orienting a rover on Mars."

🔗 theconversation.com/three-lett

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🔴 The Land at the End of the Empire: The Roman Eastern Border in Mesopotamia

"The impressive archaeological remains of the city — enclosed by massive walls and spatially organized by insulae (habitation blocks) — have yielded records of a multi-ethnic and religious settlement, with rich civilian houses flanked by a military quarter with baths and a small amphitheater, with temples and shrines dedicated to local deities, but also a synagogue and a church."

🔗 anetoday.org/roman-eastern-bor

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🔴 X-ray evidence of Black maths scholar portrait reveals snubbed genius

"It has long been mistaken for a satirical painting that mocks its Black subject for having the temerity to pretend to be a Georgian gentleman and scholar. But it is now thought to have been commissioned in 1760 by Williams himself to immortalise his brilliance as a trailblazing astronomer who, the clues in the painting suggest, successfully managed to compute and witness the trajectory of Halley’s comet over Jamaica in 1759."

🔗 theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

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🔴 🇪🇸 DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville

"On Thursday, after two decades of DNA testing and research, the forensic medical expert José Antonio Lorente said the incomplete set of remains in Seville Cathedral were indeed those of Columbus."

🔗 theguardian.com/world/2024/oct

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🔴 🎥 The first integral sign

length: fifty nine seconds.

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🔴 🎥 Nazi SS Veterans Interviewed in Cold War West Germany (1965)

"Protesters were marching ahead of a meeting of veterans of the Waffen-SS, the combat arm of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Demonstrators were alarmed by media reports that SS veterans were secretly assisting each other into positions of power in West German society, including the country's security services."

length: eight minutes and two seconds.

🔗 youtu.be/MD28z3ioiQ8

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⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."

Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000.

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⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."

Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000.

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⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."

Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000.

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⭐ 🇺🇸 US President or American Caesar?

"The clamour about an American Caesar hit a kind of crescendo during the Jacksonian era of the 1830s. The heirs of the Federalists saw the military hero-turned-president Andrew Jackson as an American Bonaparte, whose claim to represent the true voice of the American people illustrated the worst excesses of democratic politics."

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⭐ The new political economy of the middle ages: a review essay of the medieval constitution of Liberty

"Having established that free cities developed the first truly modern market-friendly legal institutions, Salter and Young advance their most provocative claim: McCloskey (2010) gets the timing wrong on her Bourgeois Dignity thesis. Instead, Salter and Young (2023, pp. 202–206) argue that self-governing medieval cities cultivated bourgeois virtues and lent dignity to merchants in the High Middle Ages."

Truitt, T. The new political economy of the middle ages: a review essay of the medieval constitution of Liberty. Rev Austrian Econ (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s11138-024-006

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⭐ An Instrument of Social Control: The Scientization of Drunkenness

"Theories of alcoholism came to be used as instruments of social control. Medical discourses influenced anti-alcohol movements and later supported the tendency to make “drunkards” invisible by committing them to drinkers’ asylums."

historyofknowledge.hypotheses.

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🔴 📖 **Thomas Jefferson Knew his Greek**

"_Among these, he owned at least two copies of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, a biographical novel written in Greek about the Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great (circa 600 – 530 BCE)_"

🔗 **blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024**

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