164 years ago today, Lincoln gave his "RIGHT MAKES MIGHT" speech at Cooper Union. William Cullen Bryant published the speech on the front page of The Post. While in NYC, Lincoln stayed at The Astor Hotel. Read about Bryant, Cooper, and Astor in #NamingGotham.
Tareq Baconi, author of 'Hamas Contained, the Rise And Pacification of Palestinian Resistance' on the Dig podcast.
"Featuring Tareq Baconi on the history of Hamas. This is the context we need. And it is precisely what mainstream discourse mystifies, denies, and disavows."
For my international audience (because i can't believe my #German audience could have missed this).
After the recent #antifascist#antifa demonstations there has been a popularisation of the #antifasticker meme. People from all walks of live appropriate symbols from their lived experience and combine it with the antifascist logo for something amusing. Here are some samples with alt-texts providing a translation/explanation. A thread 🧵1/10 : #WorkerRights #colorblind#nyancat#cthulhu
Hey NYC-Watcha doin tonight? Wanna come spill some NYC history tea with me? You know you wonder who Totten was and why there are multiple shellfish named after him! Plus, All your Shea needs met! Bayside Historical Society, tonight at 7:30. Link in comments. #NYC#History#historymatters@histodons#newyork#newyorkcity
Re: authentic & fake #Jews: the tragic #Gaza war has predictably led to bad #history going viral:. European Jews are descendants of medieval #Turkic converts--#Khazars-- thus have no #historical & #genetic connection to the land of #Israel
A myth, promoted by a combination of the cynical or stupid, sadly embraced by the naive & uninformed
Sadly relevant, as I will give a virtual talk about this at Indiana Uni this week.
@Podophyllum@CitizenWald@histodons "Jews and Arabs are all really children of the House of Abraham," says Harry Ostrer, M.D., Director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine, an author of the new study by an international team of researchers in the United States and Israel. "And all have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots over 4000 years." The accusation of #colonization is #propaganda and used to #weaponize#hatred#terrorism#historymatters
The First Self-Proclaimed Drag Queen Was a Formerly Enslaved Man
In the late 19th century, William Dorsey Swann’s private balls attracted unwelcome attention from authorities and the press
by Cari Shane, June 9, 2023
"In the late 1880s, a formerly enslaved man named William Dorsey Swann started hosting private balls known as #drags, a name possibly derived from 'grand rag,' an antiquated term for masquerade balls. Held in secret in Washington, D.C., these parties soon caught authorities’ attention.
"As the Washington Critic reported in January 1887, police officers who raided one such gathering were surprised to encounter six Black men 'dressed in elegant female attire,' including 'corsets, bustles, long hose and slippers.' The following April, the Evening Star reported on a raid that targeted men in 'female attire of many colors,' as well as 'gaudy costumes of silk and satin.' On both occasions, authorities arrested the party guests and charged them with 'being suspicious characters.'
"Journalist and historian Channing Gerard Joseph first learned about Swann’s parties in 2005, when he was a graduate student browsing an online newspaper database. The article he came across, a Washington Post story from April 1888, spotlighted Swann, 'who was arrayed in a gorgeous dress of cream-colored satin.' He 'rushed toward the officers and tried to prevent their entering.'"
@petersuber Florida's Constitution-beater DeSantis & his junta need to be expressly reminded, that the First Amendment also applies to the state of Florida & its anti-constitutional governor & regime:
=> Gitlow v. New York (1925), SCOTUS ruling.
"Congress shall make no law... ...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;..."
Both Texas and Florida are the leaders in the fascism race. Books? Education? Why be intelligent when you have the religious fanatics to think for you?
It's not enough that Texas leads in the number of books that have been banned in the last year they are now threatening to pull public funding from libraries that have Drag Story Hour where Cat In The Hat is read to kids.
But that's not all:
This new bill allows the Texas Education commission to ban history text books that admit to LGBTQ people being a part of history.
They can also issue bans for history that leans too much into Racism Is Bad And It Does Exist or if the history condones public uprising (civil rights marches). The books must also give both sides of a political/social movement.
If the text books don't offer glowing pro-America versions of all history then that is also another reason to ban it.