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**15 Wealthy & Wicked Slave Owners You Never Learned About**
🔗 https://historycollection.com/15-wealthy-wicked-slave-owners-you-never-learned-about/.
🇧🇷 🇵🇹 **The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal**
"_In this paper, we show that the discovery of massive quantities of gold in Brazil over the eighteenth century played a key role in the long-run development of Portugal. The country suffered from an economic and political resource curse. A counterfactual based on synthetic control methods suggests that by 1800 Portugal’s GDP per capita was 40 percent lower than it would have been without its endowment of Brazilian gold._"
Kedrosky, D. and Palma, N. (2025) ‘The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal’, The Journal of Economic History, pp. 1–37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050725100764.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Economics #History #Histodons #Gold #Brazil #Portugal #Academia @histodons
🌎 **The Americas In 1818**
A map by Franz Fried.
#Image attribution: Franz Fried, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:America_fried_1818.jpg.
🇬🇧 **Coins worth Roman soldier's monthly wage found**
_"Coins in both hoards range from the AD60s to AD180s, including for emperors such as Trajan, his cousin Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius."_
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q88yjd97lo.
#History #Histodons #RomanEmpire #Coins #Numismatics @histodons
📖 **Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow.**
"_Namely, that even as journalists might claim a sense of professional detachment, something like objectivity can be weaponized and used to defend racial and regional identities, and by extension, any element of power differentials or the status quo._"
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Author of William the Conqueror’s ‘Medieval Big Data’ project revealed**
🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07-02-author-william-conqueror-s-medieval-big-data-project-revealed.
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons @histodons @medievodons
**Who were the Galatians? How did they get where they were?**
"_Only much later did I learn that the Galatians were a type of Gauls, i.e., Celts, who had migrated from what is now France to what is now Türkiye._"
**Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn**
"_Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/.
🇺🇸 **A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary**
🔗 https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/a-summer-reading-list-for-americas-250th-anniversary/.
#Reading #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #History @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Four Manuscripts That Tell the Story of America’s Founding Spirit**
🔗 https://intelligentcollector.com/four-manuscripts-that-tell-the-story-of-americas-founding-spirit/.
🇺🇸 **Painting the birth of American independence**
🔗 https://news.yale.edu/2025/06/30/painting-birth-american-independence.
📖 🎙️ **J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story"**
"_In The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story (Thames & Hudson, 2025) Mallory explores ancient migrations, linguistics, and archaeology, applying cutting-edge genetic research to untangle the key arguments with wit and verve._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-indo-europeans-rediscovered.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Archaeology #Linguistics #Book #Bookstodon @histodons @linguistics @archaeodons
🏴 **Great Bibles reunited for first time in 500 years**
**How Lexington Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan led a disastrous Civil War raid**
🔗 https://www.kentucky.com/news/know-your-kentucky/article309374245.html.
📖 **The Lost Colony of the Confederacy**
"_Eugene Harter vividly describes the lives of these last Confederates who founded their own city and were called Os Confederados. They retained much of their Southernness and lent an American flavor to Brazilian culture._"
🔗 https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781585441020/the-lost-colony-of-the-confederacy/.
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #Brazil @histodons @bookstodon
**A Confederate Raider Fired the Final Shots of the Civil War in the Arctic, Two and a Half Months After Robert E. Lee Surrendered**
#History #Histodons #Confederacy #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodons
🔭 **Astronomy**
On this day in 1675 the Royal Observatory Greenwich was founded.
**What History Tells and Teaches Us? We Ask Oxford Professor**
🔗 https://astanatimes.com/2025/06/what-history-tells-and-teaches-us-we-ask-oxford-professor/.
**A century of science history: the Museo Galileo in Florence celebrates its first 100 years with an exhibition**
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**Tristan da Cunha: Britain's Most Remote Colony & The Forgotten Garrison**
#Video length: twenty-two minutes and forty-five seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJ_Mq_Fwq0.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Empire #TristanDaCunha #Colony #Imperialism #Colonisation @histodons
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