Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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Joined Nov 2022
**Franks United? The First Treaty of Meerssen (Feb 847)**
🔗 https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/franks-united-the-first-treaty-of-meerssen-feb-847/.
**Noah’s Ark and the Slave Trade**
"_After the Flood, Noah’s sons were repurposed to support a new worldview justifying racial hierarchy and slavery._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/noahs-ark-and-slave-trade.
📖 **Imagining the Ark of the Covenant, From Exodus to Indiana Jones**
🇺🇸 📖 **Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause**
"_After the war, white Catholics played decisive roles in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble Southern fight for freedom, not caused by secession to preserve slavery._"
🔗 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Catholics-the-Civil-War-and-the-Problem-of-the-Lost-Cause.
#History #Histodons #LostCause #USA #US #UnitedStates #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know**
🎙️ **Economica with Victoria Bateman**
"_The discussion covers various themes, including the impact of women's marriage decisions on population control, the relationship between women's independence and technological advancements, and the historical marginalization of women in economic history._"
🇮🇪 📖 **What Was Behind Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal?**
_“A Modest Proposal” is “a distinctively Irish critique of a distinctively Irish process of reconquest and recolonization,”_
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/what-was-behind-jonathan-swifts-modest-proposal/.
#History #Ireland #JonathanSwift #Books #Literature #Bookstodon
**Prehistoric camel art pointed to precious water sources in the Arabian Desert**
"_Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago_"
📖 🎙️ **Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East by Tiffany Earley-Spadoni**
"_Using an interdisciplinary approach that includes GIS-enabled studies and integrates archaeological, historical, and art-historical evidence, she illustrates how warfare was a generative force in structuring space and society in the ancient Middle East._"
#Audio #Podcast #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #History #Archaeology #MiiddleEast #Academia
**Hussite Wars, illustration from the Jena codex (15th century), fol. 56a**
#Image attribution: Jenaer Kodex, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hussitenkriege.tif.
🇺🇸 **Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor**
_While the events of that day are sometimes described as a battle, historical records show that the U.S. Army, which was in the midst of a campaign to repress the tribes in the area, killed an estimated 250 Native Americans, including women and children, of the Lakota Sioux tribe, while attempting to disarm Native American fighters who had already surrendered at their camp._
_“We’re making it clear that (the soldiers) deserve those medals,” Hegseth said in the video, before adding that “their place in our nation’s history is no longer up for debate.”_
#History #Histodons #WoundedKnee #Hegseth #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Oculi Mundi: the stories behind the maps**
"_The Sunderland Collection is a treasure trove of 13th-19th century terrestrial and celestial maps. But these aren’t just guides to a physical location; they are works of art, historical documents, and windows into the human imagination. Each piece tells a unique story of discovery and the enduring quest to understand the world._"
🔗 https://geographical.co.uk/culture/oculi-mundi-the-stories-behind-the-maps.
🇺🇸 🇨🇺 **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/.
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
