#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

#ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Hitler cited Canada for Lebensraum justification in 1941: "I don’t see why a German who eats a piece of bread should torment himself with the idea that the soil which produced this bread has been won by the sword. When we eat wheat from Canada, we don’t think about the despoiled Indians"

activehistory.ca/blog/2015/01/…

#canada #history

Old Tomorrow’s Bicentennial: Don’t Think Motivation, Think Law

By James Daschuk Ok, first things first: I do not hate John A. Macdonald. At the risk of maddening some colleagues out there, I am wary of trying to contort huge historical events and consequences …

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#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.

When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.

Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CanadianHistory #Histodons

9 Women Who Were Written Out of History Books

From female scientists whose work was credited to men to ancient high priestesses, these women changed history—but were also often overlooked by it.

mentalfloss.com/history/women-…

Fanny Mendelssohn

#womenshistorymonth #history

🏛️🧬 Researchers found that the Durotriges tribe of ancient #Dorset practiced a social system called matrilocality.

Their analysis of 50 ancient genomes shows that women stayed within their home communities while men moved to join their wives' families. The discovery supports historical accounts of powerful British queens and implies that land and status were inherited through maternal lines.

👉 historyhit.com/were-iron-age-w…

💁🏻‍♀️✨ BBC Knowledge Explainer: DNA seethis.tv/post/bbc-knowledge-…

#history #archaeology #genetics #science #ironage #britain #education #dna #research #sociology

Were Iron Age Women the True Rulers of Britain?

For centuries, our vision of Iron Age Britain was forged in a “Celtic” trope of hyper-masculine warrior elites ruling from the ramparts...

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#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.

At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #BletchleyPark #Histodons

Did you know Epstein's name & ancestors come from a town in #Germany?

It's even called Eppstein!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein

They even had "nobles" - the Lords of Eppstein.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of…

Wonder if they were also pedos? But I guess back then it was a common thing for nobles to be...

Just some of that #Epstein- #Etymology - #Trivia 🤷

#JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #History #Random #Wikipedia #Wiki #Genealogy #Nobility #Ancestry #historical #weird

"Crane slid her prototype onto a table holding a number of others, and retreated to the radiator. She was validated when one of the ad men the company hired picked hers out of the lineup and complimented it.

'This is the one we’re using, right?' he asked her boss. 'Oh no, that’s just something Meg did for talking purposes,' he replied. That line, especially, is burned into her memory."

thehustle.co/originals/the-inc…

#healthcare #PublicHealth #ReproHealth #WomensHealth #pregnancy #testing #history

The incredible true story of the at-home pregnancy test

For decades, its inventor has watched others take credit. That’s starting to change

^{Katherine Laidlaw (The Hustle)}

A German guard once asked O'Sullivan what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.

Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

The SOE supported the French Resistance. Radio operators were at the greatest risk of capture as their position could be triangulated. O’Sullivan was never captured.

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.

She was later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons

This is very important for #music #history. Very excited to see what we will find and hear out of this one.

openculture.com/2026/03/alan-l…

Alan Lomax's Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings

A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening.

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The Pont du Gard is one of my favourite Roman artefacts anywhere. Built in the first century CE, this elevated aqueduct was constructed without mortar, and is about 275 m long and 50 m high. The total fall across the structure is only 2.5 cm - it truly is an engineering marvel. The protuding stones were used in construction to secure formwork and scaffolding.

#Photography #History #Architecture #Romans #Engineering #France

Both the United States and Israel were shaped by political systems built alongside racial hierarchy and contested citizenship.

Each proclaimed democratic ideals while simultaneously managing populations excluded from the full promise of those ideals.

They are both profoundly unfree and racially riven societies..

That shared history matters.

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#iran #history #histodons #israel #blackmastodon

Image: Benjamin Netanyahu hugs Joe Biden at Ben Guirion Airport on October 18, 2023. AFP.

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#Irish #History
You might want 2 add the #PotatoeFamine hashtag.

Only due to this new crop which originates in #Peru, was the #IrishPopulationExplosion possible: from approximately 2 million in 1700 to 8.5 million by 1845.

The algae (#PhytophthoraInfestans) that caused successive crop failures of the imported #Monoculture staple diet, led 2 a #PotatoDisease called #LateBlight. It originated in the #Toluca Valley in 🇲🇽 and spread from the 🇺🇸 2 🇮🇪.

sheetofhistory.com/2025/12/the…

The Great Irish Famine: How the Potato Blight Claimed a Million Lives

  The Great Irish Famine: How the Potato Blight Claimed a Million Lives Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland experienced one of the most dev...

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Maya Angelou reads the words of Rachel Corrie.

youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8ilbm6Y_…

4/5

#History

Alice Walker reads the words of Rachel Corrie.

youtube.com/watch?v=8X4-VtkriK…

3/5

#History

There's a widespread myth that medieval people used spices to cover up the taste of rotten meat.

The whole story traces back to one book. In 1939, a scientist named J.C. Drummond published The Englishman's Food and suggested that medieval recipes were so heavily spiced because the meat was frequently tainted. No evidence. Just an assumption. One sentence in one book published 85 years ago.

@Dr_TheHistories #medieval #spices #food #history

Any historic finance people out there? I'm trying to determine what the abbreviated text in this chart means. It's from a 1917 magazine.

I figured out "T.T. in London" is "Telegraph Transfers in London". I think "Sov. Bnk. Buy. Rate" is "Sovereign Bank Buy Rate", though I'm not positive since there's a period after "Buy." in the original and I don't know what it would actually mean anyway. And the "Buy" in "Gold Bnk. Buy. Rt." also has the period.

"Tis." and "Mative Int." still completely elude me.

#finance #history #Shanghai #ChinaHistory #InvestmentHistory

She rode through London in a coach pulled by eight white bulls, wore dresses that scandalized Samuel Pepys into near-incoherence, and published critiques of both Hobbes and Descartes. She also wrote science fiction 152 years before *Frankenstein*. Her name was Margaret Cavendish — the woman who kept writing the future while her century tried to close the door.

oddlet.com/p/5cb

#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

The Federal Reserve Board is composed of 7 members removable by #POTUS only for cause. #SCOTUS upheld the constitutionality of such independent agencies in Humphrey’s Executor v. US. But that case was undermined by the #SupremeCourt decision in Trump v. Wilcox to allow the removal of a member of the NLRB. Now, Trump has fired a member of the Federal Reserve Board. Will the Court uphold the Board’s independence in Trump v. Cook? #law #history #economics

senatormoobs.substack.com/p/th…

The Lender of Last Resort

In which J.P. Morgan saves the day

^{Senator Moobs (Swak Days)}

The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 – and the history of sign as a legal language

The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.

by Rosamund Oates

theconversation.com/the-deaf-b…

Sign language at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/…

#books #literature #history

"They're having problems with their economy again."

1975 cartoon by american artist Ron Cobb.

#uspol #cartoon #meme #history

71 years young ❤️
Happy birthday to Catharina "Nina" Hagen, German singer, songwriter, and member of the punk and new wave movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, born on this day in 1955, East-Berlin

#punk #womenofpunk #ninahagen #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Hiking with son 2, 3 and 4 yesterday. We hiked a local route about an hour away from home. The route went through a varied landscape and we passed by forests, meadows, lakes, old (medieval) quarries and much more.

#hiking #history

Wow, I never knew there was a hand-held LCD version of Out Run. 😃

igdb.com/games/outrun--2

#OutRun #LCD #HandHeld #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #arcade #computer #computers #computing #IT #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon