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🇺🇸 🇨🇺 **The “Gem of the Caribbean”: a U.S. colony in…Cuba?**
_I recently had the good fortune of cataloging one such small assortment of maps that introduced me to a sliver of American history I was entirely ignorant of: the “McKinley Colony, Cuba, plat map collection, 1904-1911.”_
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2025/09/gem-of-the-caribbean/.
#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #USA #US #UnitedStates #Cuba
**The beginnings of the Codex**
"_Discover how a tiny Latin fragment reveals the early rise of the codex and Rome’s shift from scrolls to books._"
🔗 https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/the-beginnings-of-the-codex.
📖 **Anthology edited by Carol Bakhos covers nearly a millennium of Jewish history**
"_The installment that Bakhos oversaw covers the years from Alexander the Great to the era just before the emergence of Islam. That transformative timespan saw the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman Empire, in 70 CE, as well as Judaism responding to the Greek, Sasanian and Parthian empires; the emergence of rabbis; and a transition from temple-based belief to Torah-based practice._"
🔗 https://humanities.ucla.edu/news/carol-bakhos-jewish-culture-civilization/.
#History #Histodons #Judaism #Culture #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Academia
🇺🇸 **Hispanics Woven in the Fabric of the US**
"_The irony of Texas begins with its name. Tejas is the Spanish version of the Indigenous name. Today, the Texas cowboy image is a fusion of the Mexican Mestizo and Spanish men who work on horseback in the cattle industry to this day. The cowboy hat, neck scarf, belt buckle, boots, and spurs, are all the trappings of Vaqueros: Hispanic men. The language on the ranch is sprinkled with Spanish words: rodeo, lasso, corral._"
🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/09/25/new-blog-by-dennis-raphael-garcia/.
#History #Histodons #Hispanic #Ethnicity #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin**
"_Bäck’s case illustrates not only how European anatomists often wrote accounts of skin colour which best showcased their medical skills but also how the production of racial pseudoscience became increasingly driven by the authoritative rise of empiricism, the expansion of the slave trade, and the Enlightenment’s fascination with human differences._"
Roy-Di Piazza, V. (2025) ‘Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X25101039.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Ethnology #Race #EarlyModern #Enlightenment #Europe
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 **Why US naval 'victory' off British coast is celebrated 246 years on**
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cderg91dw20o.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UniredStates
🇺🇸 **The Bloody Origins of the Word “Pioneer”**
"_Emerging from the French term pionnier, the first ranks of foot soldiers, the term “pioneer” was for them a marker of the violence they used when seizing Native land for themselves_"
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/09/24/the-bloody-origins-of-the-word-pioneer/.
**Bartolomé de las Casas, Witness to the Violent Conquest of the Americas**
🔗 https://lithub.com/bartolome-de-las-casas-witness-to-the-violent-conquest-of-the-americas/.
**Tall talk about elephants: Hannibal’s crossing through disciplines**
"_The enigma of Hannibal’s Alpine crossing has captivated minds and sparked debates across centuries, much like an elusive puzzle that resists a definitive solution. This article explores the fierce and often acrimonious scholarly debates surrounding Hannibal’s journey, where the quest to separate historical fact from romantic myth has turned into a battleground for competing disciplines._"
William Bainbridge, Stefano Cracolici, Tall talk about elephants: Hannibal’s crossing through disciplines, Historical Research, 2025;, htaf020, https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaf020.
**Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe**
"_....this note focuses on Leonardo Fibonacci’s experience in North Africa that led him to interact with the scientists at the court of Frederick II, Stupor Mundi. This encounter had several important consequences, among which the introduction in the Western world of the Hindo-Arabic numbering system and the beginning of the transition from Arabic to Latin as the language of science and mathematics._"
Struppa, D. (2024) “Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe”, Bullettin of the Gioenia Academy of Natural Sciences of Catania, 57(387), pp. FP202–FP221. doi: https://doi.org/10.35352/gioenia.v57i387.122.
🗺️ **How WWI got Nat Geo into the map business**
🔗 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/cartography-map-making-influence-wwii.
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **The White Indian Mutiny: When Britain's Own Heroes Rebelled**
"_The White Indian Mutiny 1858._"
#Video length: fourteen minutes and twenty-five seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1wpDkVMwCE.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #EastIndiaCompany #India #C19th
**Euclid's Elements is easily misunderstood**
#Video length: thirty-three minutes and twenty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-MgQC6z3VU.
#History #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Euclid #Geometry
🇬🇧 **How the English Civil War Shaped the Future of Great Britain**
🔗 https://lithub.com/how-the-english-civil-war-shaped-the-future-of-great-britain/.
#England #History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #UK #UnitedKingdom
🇩🇪 **New evidence of long-distance travellers in Seddin during the Bronze Age**
_”The strontium signatures of most of the buried individuals point both to south Scandinavia as well as Central Europe, and possible northern Italy. This is in good accordance with the archaeological knowledge that shows intensified trade between these regions”._
🔗 https://www.gu.se/en/news/new-evidence-of-long-distance-travellers-in-seddin-during-the-bronze-age.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #BronzeAge #Germany
🌍 **The true size of Africa**
"_For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations._"
🌍 **The true size of Africa**
"_For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations._"
**Nazi Germany imposes Nuremberg Laws stripping Jews of citizenship – archive, 1935**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/17/nazi-germany-imposes-nuremberg-laws-stripping-1935
🇺🇸 **Defining “White Trash”**
"_Taylor writes that the term “white trash” emerged after the Civil War, used by white elites to disparage poor whites who worked alongside Black laborers as sharecroppers and tenant farmers._"
🌔 **This man predicted the Moon landing (in 1638!)**
#Video length: short
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f8nVn9eUSGE.
#History #EarlyModern #Science #HistSci #Physics #Space #Moon
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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