Shari Thee Historian

I'm so tired. All I do is work all day, then write manic or maniac papers for coursework. What day is it even?

YouTube video by Indigenous Revolution They call me illegal - Alkimizta (Official Video) on all music platforms: January 25, 2026

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Political violence is a profound marker that we are well past the mere threat of democratic collapse; we are living it.

Print featuring a lone figure walking up stairs, holding an umbrella, from a London underground station viewed from the back about to reach the street above under a dawn sky

Contemporary UK artist Gail Brodholt, 'Up With the Larks', linocut #womensart
#Monday

This is exactly what came to my mind immediately! To be fair, I've never forgotten those commercials, or Genesis' "Land of Confusion" on MTV 😂

2 insurrections, same President.

There is still beauty in this world

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Our 250th birthday is going to suck, isn't it?

What!?!?!? 😡

I feel this. I should carry an epi-pen at all times due to potential anaphylactic shock from bee and wasp allergies, as well as nut allergies, but I simply can't afford them (uninsured & no employer insurance offered).

You are here:

1st day of term. 2 research projects-1 grad classic history & 1 sociology. Proposals for both due end of the week. My mind is racing w/ potential theses-repercussions of demise of matriarchal societies of neolithic & bronze age to collapse of complex societies. Excited to dive into the semester.

As a historian, this is not only grotesque and overt, but as a descendant of two grandfathers who served during WWII, it's a stab in the back of America and those who have served, those who currently serve, as well as the countless lives sacrificed serving their country and its democratic ideals.

My photo shows the left side profile of a head of a cave lion made of mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago (Aurignacian culture). The ivory would originally have been white in colour but is now a light creamy brown with a surface sheen, and darker patches caused by time spent buried in the ground. Carved details include mouth, nose, eyes, and ears. There is cross hatching behind the ears to indicate the mane. It measures 2.95 cm in length x 2.11 cm height.

Something wonderful for the weekend!

About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, an ancient artist skilfully sculpted this tiny head of a cave lion from mammoth ivory. It is one of the World’s oldest known works of figurative art.

📷 by me

#Archaeology

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I’ve spent the last 18 months writing about the Roman Empire. In some ways, we’ve progressed immeasurably far in the last 1500 years. But there are still too many things about contemporary politics that I think would have felt all too familiar to them. I persist in my optimism that we can do better.

Hadrian’s Villa is an exceptional complex of classical buildings created in the 2nd century CE by the Roman emperor Hadrian. It combines the best elements of the architectural heritage of Egypt, Greece and #Rome in the form of an 'ideal city'
#RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology #history
AncientBlueSky

A square shaped cuneiform tablet photographer on front, back and sides

Horoscope for a child born in April 69 BCE in ancient Babylonia.

Written on clay in cuneiform, it lists the position of the moon, sun, and planets at the hour of birth. It also notes a solar eclipse that year — predicted but “not seen” — and a lunar eclipse at sunset www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...

I made a nest lol. My research paper on Socrates through the eyes of Xenophon, Plato, & Aristophanes is due tonight and I was quadruple checking my sources & citations before I submit to my professor. 4 months of research has my brain ti

Just because big history didn't document ancient women like it did the men it doesn't mean they didn't have just as complex lives as they do now.

They’re emptying out the prisons and insane asylums right into the Trump White House.

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History repeats.

In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.

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