I have enjoyed the history writing of Mark Kurlansky. Cod, The Basque History of the World, and Salt, were all fascinating looks at histories and societies I was unexposed to.

#books #history

Here's an even longer interview with Kathrine Switzer. I'm completely spellbound by her.

This story stirs up so many emotions. Why did it have to be that way for so long? And why are we still taking steps backward? What's wrong with people?

#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967.

youtube.com/watch?v=EOaLdRnfmh…

#HumanRights #WomensRight #WomensRights #WomenInHistory #Women #Equality #History

#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.

She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.

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

Born into a family of merchants, in 1271 a teenage Marco Polo set out for the court of the Mongol emperor – and he would not return to Italy for nearly a quarter of a century. This episode of You're Dead to Me traces Polo's extraordinary life and adventures.

Written by: Hannah Cusworth, Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse, and Greg Jenner

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002913n

The Travels of Marco Polo at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/60…

#books #travel #history

#OnThisDay, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.

As well as writing an influential novel, Lay Down Your Arms (1889), she founded the German Peace Society in 1892. In 1907 she was the only woman to attend the Second Hague Peace Convention, and warned that Europe was heading for war once again.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #NobelWomen #Histodons

Fifty years ago, if the right decisions had been made, today might look very different. We likely would not be talking about a climate crisis or a climate emergency.

But the right decisions were not made then. Instead, our capitalist rulers pushed ahead with their growth-at-any-cost mantra. And now we face certain disaster.

There are still actions to be taken, a struggle to be waged, in hopes of making the collapse of society slightly less costly for some people in some places. We must engage in that fight.

But suffering is inevitable, great suffering, both for humans and for the natural environment that our industry and our consumerism are in the process of destroying.

#History #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism

A #Passover marketing idea dreamt up in 1932 by a coffee corporation and a Jewish advertising executive went on to become one of the most popular and influential haggadahs in America.

theconversation.com/how-a-coff…

#Passover #Jewish #History @histodons #Jewstodon

An ad for Maxwell House coffee, themed for Passover ⬇️

Put a warning on the real threat:
“DANGER: CAPITALISM INSIDE” – the sticker your local bank kiosk doesn’t want to see.

🛒 Order now, rebel later: etsy.com/listing/1796089151/da…

#StickerAddict #Stationery #Sticker #Stickers #StickerArt #StickerCommunity #Etsy #EtsyShop #Anarchy #Anarchism #Anarchist #Socialism #Socialist #Communism #Communist #Marxism #Marxist #Ecology #Politics #Economics #History #Danger #Capitalism

#Vance: "If the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire #world from the strategic #disaster that was the American-led invasion of #Iraq."

source: france24.com/en/live-news/2025…

#EU #Europe #politics #history #military #war #news #usa #government #statement #warfare #news

Vance urges Europe not to be US 'vassal'

US Vice President JD Vance hailed his country's transatlantic alliances, striking a more positive note, but in an interview urged European states to show greater independence.

^{France 24 (FRANCE 24)}

#OnThisDay, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 independent student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the USA.

Baker was a civil rights activist for five decades, and advocated grassroots activism. She also criticised the misogyny she encountered within the movement.

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

#DYK: Easter’s date changes every year because it always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox.

Simple, right?

It’s part of the complicated origins of the holiday and its evolution over the centuries 🐣
buff.ly/f2XQEgN #Easter #Tradition #History #Religion @histodons #Histodons

Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts about the holiday

A scholar explains the rich historical roots of Easter and how it has evolved over the centuries.

^{The Conversation}

Site of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, 1941 - 1974, as seen from the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. The gantry and crane was constructed in 1947 and at the time the largest in the world. It was used to remove and repair battleship gun turrets.

@photography #sanfrancisco #wwii #history

#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1985, Danuta Danielsson hits a neo-Nazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. Yes, that photo by Hans Runesson.

Danuta had been born in Poland in 1947, after her Jewish mother had survived a concentration camp.

#EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Born in 1914, Hedy Lamarr was a famous American actress who pioneered the technology that would lead to WiFi, GPS, cell phones & Bluetooth communication.

Lamarr was brilliant. Among many fascinating inventions, she developed a new communication system with composer George Antheil that used “frequency hopping” among radio waves.

Once called the “most beautiful woman in the world," Lamarr is now remembered as "the mother of Wi-Fi."

smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian… #science #history

Very early #OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1944, Odette Wilen parachutes into France to work as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supports the French resistance.

Wireless operators were at the greatest risk of discovery, as their position could be triangulated whenever they were transmitting messages back to London.

Wilen evades capture by minutes and escapes over the Pyrenees. She lives until 2015.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

Facts and Myths About Harriet Tubman

"Despite being a popular historical figure, the best-known details about Harriet Tubman’s life are a mixture of fact and myth."

thecollector.com/facts-and-myt…

Books about Harriet Tubman at PG

gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q…

#history #africanamerican

The #Trump #ExecutiveOrders on #race remind me of a commentary for the @NPR station WMOT in Murfreesboro/#Nashville : “Chemical Eye 👁️ on the Race Factor”.

A mixture of #chemistry , #biology , #history , #freedom and #USpol 👉 sitnews.us/MacDougall/102508_m…

"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.

As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.

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

#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1968, Barbara Jane Harrison dies trying to rescue trapped passengers in an airplane fire at Heathrow.

She was later awarded the George Cross for bravery: she remains the only individual woman to receive the GC in peacetime.

#WomenInHistory #History #AviationHistory #Histodons

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@Jeramee

#Racism #History

Yes, you're absolutely right, I learned this when doing a bit of research on the rascist #GreatReplacementTheory (#GRT,) about a year ago:

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1118…

Also, my hypothesis is that they will learn that they are once again in for "and then they came for...," /once the #MAGA fascists have consolidated their power further down the line...

A good point in time to start for them would be when elections will be of the "(Bela-/) Russian type" in the #US, too...

While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression.

Here’s the real history.
propublica.org/article/history…

#News #Tax #History #Tariffs #Trump #USPolitics

The Real History of U.S. Income Tax

While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression. Here’s the real history.

^ProPublica

#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

'i'm a race woman.'

#art #history: billie holiday was born eleanora fagan on this day in 1915. as i usually project a sadness upon her that is likely not entirely accurate, i decided to sketch her this year in full smile.
there's a lot to know about her. you can read more below if that's your bag. she's worth the time, though. i'll tell you that for free.
#billieHoliday #music #illustration #musique #philadelphia #jazz

#GiftArticle

Amid anti-#DEI push, #NationalParkService rewrites history of #UndergroundRailroad

Since #Trump took office, the #ParkService -- an agency charged with preserving #AmericanHistory -- has changed how its website describes key moments from #slavery to #JimCrow

#whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #History #racism #lies #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #USpol
wapo.st/4jdXL8m

Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.

Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.

They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.

#History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons #EuropeanHistory

The whaling industry was an unexpected player in the fight against #slavery.

How whale oil and spermaceti contributed to abolition:
theconversation.com/abolition-…

#history @histodons #Histodons @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL VIDEO #GAME OF ALL TIME

bafta.org/stories/the-most-inf…

#gamer #entertainment #history #video #play

The most influential video game of all time - Bafta

The results of our public vote for the most influential video game are in. Find out where big names like Baldur's Gate 3, Super Mario Bros, Tetris and Shenmue came on the list.

^{Christine Fleming (Bafta)}

Why is a bridge in Sarajevo named after two women?

#OnThisDay, 5 Apr 1992, Suada Dilberović, a Muslim, and Olga Sučić, a Catholic, were killed whilst on a peace protest in Sarajevo during the outbreak of the Bosnian war. They are the first civilian casualties in what became the Siege of Sarajevo. The siege lasted 1,425 days, and over 5,000 civilians were killed during it.

The bridge they died on has been renamed in their memory.

#WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #OTD #History #Histodons

“President Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said. As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts.“

nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technol…

#history #histodons #uspol #democracy

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It

As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said.

^{Tiffany Hsu (The New York Times)}

S'mores are a staple of North American childhoods (and there are more than a few grownups who'll pop a marshmallow on a skewer every once in a while). Here, @NationalGeographic takes a look at their real history, which dates back to 1923, and a British Girl Guide leader with a ridiculously appropriate nickname.

flip.it/gR0YEo

#History @histodon #FoodHistory #Food #Smores #Culture #Lifestyle

Who invented s’mores? Don’t believe the myths—this is the real history

Lots of people get credit for inventing the gooey campfire treat. But a woman named Cookie—yes, Cookie—made it into a culinary all-star. This is her story.

^{Dustin Renwick (History)}

3-year-old discovers 3,800-year-old treasure during a family outing in Israel.

From NBC News: "Experts identified the find as a Canaanite seal or scarab."

flip.it/hi8xFf

#Archaeology #History #MiddleEast

3-year-old discovers ancient 3,800-year-old treasure during family outing in Israel

A 3-year-old unearthed an ancient treasure during a family outing in southern Israel, officials said.

^{Mithil Aggarwal (NBC News)}

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.

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

#Secret documents on #Nazis who fled to #Argentina after #WWII being #declassified

source: timesofisrael.com/argentina-to…

#ww2 #germany #justice #escape #history #fascism #politics #news #declassification #crime #war #humanrights #nonazis

#CORYBOOKER IS FIRE 🔥 🔥 🔥

Ranging from #anger to #women's #suffrage (#AlicePaul) to #FrederickDouglass to all aspects of #American #history in hour 19-20 of a no sleep #filibuster in #rhetoric I could never elocute well rested in my entire life

WITNESS THIS MAN

I wanted to capture some snippets from hour 19 (he's going on hour 22 now)

Corey Booker on #Anger:

#BookerFilibuster

#OnThisDay, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles

A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking #Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.

Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #PeaceProtests #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