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- Historians are using facial recognition to identify people in Civil War photos https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/civil-war-photo-sleuth-facial-recognition.html 40 comments
- A People’s Historian: John Julius Norwich, 1929-2018 https://www.weeklystandard.com/dominic-green/a-peoples-historian 3 comments
- What Historians Wish People Knew About Drugs, Part II: Isaac Campos https://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/what-historians-wish-people-knew-about-drugs-part-ii-isaac-campos/ 84 comments
- Historian: SCOTUS sending ‘anti-progressive’ message to the American people https://thehill.com/homenews/3542662-historian-scotus-sending-anti-progressive-message-to-the-american-people/ 36 comments politics
- ‘The goal was to silence people’: historian Joanne Freeman on congressional violence https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/28/historian-joanne-freeman-congressional-violence-paul-gosar 3 comments politics
- Anti-Racist Historian: Attacks on Rep. Omar Rooted in Belief “America is for White People https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/19/donald_trump_ilhan_omar_racist_attacks 45 comments politics
- Presidential historian: 'There are an extraordinary number of people who will walk off a cliff' if Trump tells them to http://thehill.com/homenews/media/401515-presidential-historian-there-are-an-extraordinary-number-of-people-who-will 249 comments politics
- Historians of reddit, what are some ways in which the peoples of your area of expertise marked themselves or their property for political, social, or religious reasons? https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/94txdn/historians_of_reddit_what_are_some_ways_in_which/ 7 comments history
- Presidential historian: Calling press 'enemy of the people' is a 'totalitarian' strategy http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/400244-morning-joe-guest-calling-press-enemy-of-the-people-is-a-totalitarian 191 comments politics
- Presidential historian Gil Troy: Donald Trump has committed “a crime against the American people” https://www.salon.com/2018/04/09/presidential-historian-gil-troy-donald-trump-has-committed-a-crime-against-the-american-people/ 1008 comments politics
- Historians of Reddit, What is the Most Significant Event In History That Most People Don't Know About? https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/519rvi/historians_of_reddit_what_is_the_most_significant/ 3173 comments history
- Interested in "A People's History of the United States", worried about its position among historians http://www.amazon.com/A-Rebel-War-Clerks-Diary/dp/1148493530 3 comments history
- 'Historian' Gingrich on Palestinians: "These people are terrorists ..." http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/ 7 comments politics
- Howard Zinn, the people's historian, dead at 87 http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.html 30 comments history
- Historian explains the event behind the Germanic pamphlets of Vlad dinning under the bodies of impaled people and the fate of his family https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=26s&v=XsUt9H39yRM 3 comments history
- People who study the origins of civil wars see 'indicators' the US is on the brink of conflict, Yale historian says https://www.businessinsider.com/civil-war-experts-indicators-us-on-brink-of-conflict-historian-2022-1 3 comments politics
- People who study the origins of civil wars see 'indicators' the US is on the brink of conflict, Yale historian says https://www.businessinsider.com.au/civil-war-experts-indicators-us-on-brink-of-conflict-historian-2022-1 326 comments politics
- Another sickening video from Anglo/Western Youtube “historian” trying to argue the USSR was the same as or worse than the NAZIS. Just read the comments to see people making apologetics for fascism; this is the amount of brainwashing conducted in the West https://youtu.be/_MwFu_n9-fQ 100 comments russia
- [NP][Shitpost] TIL scholars and historians officially recognize chutiya people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/chutiya_people 4 comments india
- A Holocaust Historian Explains Why People Believe Trump's Lies http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/news/a53228/why-people-believe-trump-fake-news/ 145 comments politics
- Rich people will become immortal ‘god-like’ cyborgs in 200 years – historian http://rt.com/uk/263133-rich-human-god-cyborgs/ 28 comments technology
- They called it a spectacle lynching, and historians say it was perhaps the worst act of torture and execution in 20th century America. The people of Greenwood, Fl. are still protecting the reputations of killers. http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article1197360.ece 38 comments history
- Twenty years after Serbian forces killed 44 people in the small Kosovo village of Reçak/Racak, the survivors still await justice – while historians recall a turning point in a grim war. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/decades-on-kosovo-massacre-village-awaits-justice-01-14-2019 88 comments europe
- Define The Term 'Urban Naxal', Historian Romila Thapar Asks Centre | Talking on the house arrests of five activists, she said these are the people who are fighting against social injustice. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/define-the-term-urban-naxal-historian-romila-thapar-asks-centre-1924577 19 comments india
- Oops! "Jewish People" is a Myth, says Jewish Historian http://ww3zionism.blogspot.com/2008/10/oops-jewish-people-is-myth-says-jewish.html 7 comments worldnews
- Russian prosecutors demanded that a respected Gulag historian be sentenced to 15 years in prison over alleged sexual assault in a case his allies say has been trumped up to silence him. Yury Dmitriyev spent decades locating and exhuming mass graves of people killed under Joseph Stalin's rule https://www.france24.com/en/20200707-russia-seeks-15-years-jail-for-gulag-historian 476 comments worldnews
- I was listening to a talk by historian Jeremi Suri and he claimed when Washington was made president people from Massachusetts and Georgia couldn’t even understand each other. How true is this? https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/9kmieh/i_was_listening_to_a_talk_by_historian_jeremi/ 13 comments linguistics
- There are many reasons why historians would argue FDR as the greatest president in the history of the USA. Yet people forget one of FDR's greatest feats. He made the most sensible, heroic and utterly compassionate executive decision by anyone who resided at the White House. He repealed Prohibition. http://www.drunkard.com/issues/06_06/06_06_fdr_portrait.html 24 comments history
- Bolsonaro 'led Brazilian people into a canyon', says ex-health minister - Historians will savage Jair Bolsonaro for leading Brazilians into a deadly “canyon” with his shambling, self-interested and anti-scientific response to Covid-19, according to his former health minister. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/15/jair-bolsonaro-luiz-henrique-mandetta-interview-coronavirus 271 comments worldnews
- King Arthur's Villa Found in Croatia, Claim Historians - The Roman villa is near a grave said to be Arthur's, also known as Lucius Artorius Castus. The 1st century villa matches what's known of Artorius. "My only worry is people in England will accuse me of stealing their legend." http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/general_news/2012-11-12/30775/_king_arthur's_villa_found_in_croatia,_claim_historians 16 comments history
- A Push for Historic Preservation on the Moon -- "archaeologists and historians worried that the next generation of people visiting the moon might carelessly obliterate the site of one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/science/space/a-push-for-historic-preservation-on-the-moon.html 10 comments science
- ‘Indians being non-violent, pacifist people is a myth; has a lot to do with centrality to ahimsa in Gandhi’s ideology’: Mahatma Gandhi played a major role in convincing the world at large that there is something inherently non-violent about India and Indians, says historian Upinder Singh https://www.firstpost.com/india/indians-being-non-violent-pacifist-people-is-a-myth-has-a-lot-to-do-with-centrality-to-ahimsa-in-gandhis-ideology-10204891.html 2 comments india
- New audio tape sheds light on JFK assassination: “People have always wanted to know where was Curtis LeMay on the day Kennedy was shot and there have been mixed messages about it. This tape provides exactly where he was,” Kennedy historian Douglas Brinkley told CNN." http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/31/new-audio-tape-sheds-light-on-jfk-assassination/ 3 comments politics
- Maher: ‘Who the f–k is Saul Alinsky?’ - "Way back in the 30s, he started organizing the civil rights movement. And as a historian like Newt Gingrich would tell you, the civil rights movement turned out to be a huge burden on white people.” http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/28/maher-asks-who-the-f-k-is-saul-alinsky/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+therawstory+%28the+raw+story%29 70 comments politics