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🇩🇪 **Thirty Years’ War camp unearthed in Germany reveals daily life and mysteries**
🔗 https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/thirty-years-war-camp-unearthed-in-germany/
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Bravaria #Germany #Europe @archaeodons
**Codex Vigilanus Primeros Numeros Arabigos**
“_The first Arabic/Hindu (Ghobar type) numerals in a Western manuscript, AD 976. From Codex Vigilanus._”
#Image attribution: The original uploader was Srnec at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Vigilanus_Primeros_Numeros_Arabigos.jpg.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math @science
🇺🇸 💵 📖 **Forsyth on Bridges, 'Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower'**
“_The author writes that by focusing on finance she is analyzing the infrastructure of America’s global expansion. Territorial expansion, beginning with the Spanish-American War, meant that the American state required an infrastructure of payments and finance, and so did American business as it internationalized. The decisive events in this narrative include the Spanish-American War, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, World War I, the recession of 1920-21, and the Great Depression._”
Douglas J. Forsyth. Review of Bridges, Mary. Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. March, 2025. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=61536 .
#History #UnitedStates #USA #US #C20th #Finance #Banking #Nonfiction #BookReview #Books #Bookstoson @bookstodon
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain**
“_This article shows that fiscal capacity was not created only by government bureaucracies: the ‘company-state at home’ model presented here complements the narrative of the ‘fiscal-military state’ by showing that much fiscal revenue from trade was realized through the action of the English East India Company (EIC). Lacking the capacity to enact exhaustive laws, carry out complex calculations, or effectively manage a large bureaucracy, the English state relied on the administrative capacity of the EIC to collect customs on the East Indies trade._”
Karolina Hutková, Ernesto Dal Bó, Lukas Leucht, Noam Yuchtman, Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Past & Present, 2025;, gtaf009, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf009.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #India #EastIndiaCompany #C18th #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
**Publicly accessible digital tool for data on trans-Atlantic slave trade will be supported by Hutchins Center, Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative**
Christy DeSmith
_“Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels that traversed the Atlantic between the 16th and 19th centuries. Also documented are details on nearly 221,000 individuals involved with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, including ship captains and the humans they trafficked.”_
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/slavevoyages-finds-new-home-at-harvard/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #Digital #Data #Harvard @histodon @histodons
🗞️ 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **250 Years Ago: News of the Battles of Lexington and Concord**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodon @histodons
🇬🇧 **Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals**
“_Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons took advantage of famine and societal breakdown caused by an extreme period of drought to inflict crushing blows on weakened Roman defences in 367 CE. While Rome eventually restored order, some historians argue that the province never fully recovered._”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Romans #RomanEmpire #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Drought @histodon @histodons
**Austrian Graffiti Discovered in a Holy Site: Researchers Decipher Medieval Inscriptions in the Room of the Last Supper in Jerusalem**
#History #Medieval #Medievodons #Graffiti #Jerusalem @medievodons
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 **Bismarck’s Britain**
“_The German chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw himself as a puppet-master, engineering British politics from afar in his feud with Gladstone._”
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/bismarcks-britain.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #Bismarck #Gladstone #Politics @histodon @histodons
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **‘The British are coming’ and the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War**
“_During the summer of 1776, they defined their objective as total separation and declared independence. Yet declaring independence was very different to actually achieving it. King George III’s government, under Prime Minister Frederick, Lord North regarded their actions as no more than insurrection and remained determined to crush them._”
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #C18th #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodon @histodons
**The Last Nazi Election - August 1945!**
Mark Felton Productions
“_Incredibly, over three months after Hitler's death, one place was still ruled by Nazis, and indeed in August 1945 an election returned the Nazi Party to power!_”
#Video length: twelve minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spnO0olgUbE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazis #Election @histodon @histodons
🅰️ 📖 🖋️ **The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**
“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”
Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/406020.
#OpenAccess #PublicDomain #Image #History #Fiction #Book #Bookstodon #Literature #TheScarletLetter #NathanielHawthorne #HesterPrynne @literature @bookstodon
🇺🇸 📖 **The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850**
“_Isenberg takes readers to the contested borders of Spanish Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Minnesota at critical moments in the early to mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that the architects of American expansion faced significant challenges from the diverse groups of people inhabiting each region._”
🔗 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469685052/the-age-of-the-borderlands/.
#Nonfiction #History #ManifestDestiny #USA #UnitedStates #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 **The American King-Crane Commission Plan To Divide The Ottoman Empire After World War 1**
🔴 🏴 **Bank Of England Charter Sealing 1694**
#History #England #Economics #Finance
#Image attribution: Lady Jane Lindsay, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_England_Charter_sealing_1694.jpg.
🔴 🎙️ **Written in Mathematics: Descartes’ Physics**
“_For Descartes body is purely geometrical. So how does he understand features we can perceive, like color, and causation between bodies?_”
🔴 **Portrait of a Nazi Bigamist**
Livia Gershon
“_Heinrich Himmler’s pronatalist policies included support for children of SS officers’ extramarital relationships. He claimed that Germanic tradition included the possibility of men taking a second wife—and he did so himself, having children with his secretary as well as his official wife._”
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/portrait-of-a-nazi-bigamist/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazi #Germany #Marriage @histodon @histodons
🔴 **What is Fascism?**
Cambridge Festival
“_This lecture takes fascism seriously. It looks closely at the core myths at the heart of fascist ideology, offering probing explanations for its emergence, resurgence and its continuing appeal._”
#Video length: fifty-nine minutes and fifty-eight seconds.
🔴 🇺🇸 **The Founding Fathers v. The Climate Change Skeptics**
“_When claims from Europe accused British America of being inferior on account of its colder weather, Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Founding Fathers responded with patriotic zeal that their settlement was actually causing the climate to warm._”
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-founding-fathers-v-the-climate-change-skeptics/.
#History #Climate #ClimateChange #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Weather @histodon @histodons
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