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...the @support account, explaining that I did great educational posts, got erroneously suspended, and that Twitter support should unsuspend my account, both so people know what happened and in case that helps with my appeal.

I was suspended on Twitter for, I think, replying to so many people about Apocalypto and linking my breakdown post about it 😅

Would appreciate it if those who feel comfortable doing so, still use Twitter, and have followers there who also follow me, tweeting out about this while also tagging...

Un fanzine de fuentes históricas con mucho mucho spicy (véase ejemplo)

El fanzine incluye las cartas transcritas y la información para consultar los originales online

Hazte con él por solo 6 leros envío incluido (para España, si es en otro sitio tengo que preguntar en correos)

¡Hemos impreso una nueva tirada de los fanzines! Con un sello especial tallado a mano a partir de un original del siglo XVIII

“Me dejaste como la flor en la escarcha: Selección de cartas de mujeres a sus maridos en América, 1740s”

5€ más gastos de envío. Escríbeme un privado si te interesa

46. The Internet Archive is one of the most valuable resources for contemporary historians and it is worth donating to.

33. When I started uni at history, I was told that all first years should read Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes. This advice is still prescient.

If someone you know is starting a history degree, buy them the Hobsbawm ‘Age of’ series as a gift!

19. The period from circa 1995 to 2005 can be difficult to research due to stuff not being seen as ‘historical’ yet and given the same level of credence as material from previous decades, alongside the ethereal nature of the early internet.

We gotta wage Butlerian Jihad

So, I recently visited the Swedish Army (History) Museum, and there was a video presentation about the Great Northern War, which was mostly AI generated. This is my first time seeing AI generated slop in a state run museum.

8. Graeber y Wengrow sobre la mitificada seducción del mundo occidental.

Hilo con algunos fragmentos importantes (y traducidos) de esta muy importante obra sobre la idea de revolución.

1. El concepto de revolución como algo negativo.

real historians know that the only correct historical periodization is the very long eighteenth century, which goes from the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648 to the closure of the gold window in 1971

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

Years later Aaak'wtaatseen sees an old, weathered salmon he recognizes as his soul, spears him and dies at the same time, and has his body returned to the water.

A wooden carving of a fish transforming in to a boy

A 19th-century Tlingit carving of Aaak'wtaatseen or Salmon Boy, who disrespects salmon and is taken in by the Salmon People one day while out swimming. He learns their ways over the winter in the ocean and is eventually caught and returned to his village to teach about respecting the Salmon People.

Celebro cada pieza artística rescatada de bestias. Son, en parte, los manuscritos de Timbuctú, cuna del saber árabe en África occidental, tras el avance yihadista en 2012.

Vuelven a casa, no así, por caso, las dos estatuas de Buda de Bāmiyān, destruidas por los talibán en Afganistán (2001).

Esta semana se viralizó que "África" busca superar la proyección Mercator para que los mapas muestren la verdadera dimensión continental (Peters), o sea, 14 veces mayor que Groenlandia.

Pero es la Unión Africana quien propone, principal cuerpo continental, porque África no son "tribus" ni un país.

A drum made of animal hide and covered in runes and images of animals and humans hunting.

A Sámi drum, seized in 1723 and repatriated to the Sámi people in Norway from Germany in 2023. Drums such as this were confiscated in the 17th and 18th-centuries by authorities in the belief that they were used in witchcraft, and this one, the Folldal drum, is among the best preserved.

Pages from missionary Christian Kauder’s book of Mi’kmaw hieroglyphic prayers, printed in Vienna in 1866. Hear more about these next Tuesday!

A box made of bark featuring a multicoloured pig made of dyed quills.

A 19th-century Menominee maple sugar box featuring a pig made of porcupine quillwork. I love it so much.

A page of a book with rows of unusual hieroglyphic writing

Hundreds of pages of Mi’gmaq Gomgwejui’gasit or suckerfish writing; these are the Austrian publisher’s proofs from the 1860s comprising of 2700 symbols. Still in Vienna, where they were produced by a Luxembourg missionary.

A piece of paper marked with unusual hieroglyphic marks

A part of a London antiquary’s handwritten copy of a Mi’kmaw woman in Halifax’s hieroglyphic writing from the 1760s. She is described as a “priestess” and she refused to translate the suckerfish writing for the colonial officials who sent it to London.

A woman sits with a stick by a fire while a large smiling monster stands behind her.

An 1828 illustration by Tuscarora artist David Cusick depicting the Haundenosaunee story of the flying heads. In Cusick’s version, a cursed and cannibalistic flying head sees an old woman eating acorns from a fire and, believing she is eating live coals, flees from her enormous power.

A bowl-shaped basket with geometric designs

Here is an amazing 18th-century Northern Chumash basket made of juncus rush at Mission San Luis Obispo, California.

A bag with traditional Anishinaabe patterns including thunderbirds

A deerskin Menominee pouch from Wisconsin with porcupine quillwork, featuring two thunderbirds and a sturgeon, from c.1820 or possibly earlier. The metal pieces on the bottom fringe would have gently jingled as the wearer moved.

A purse-like object with ornate designs made of porcupine quills.

A Mi’gmaq handkerchief holder made of porcupine quillwork, birchbark, glass beads, and silk, from c.1850.

A stack of diverse books on a wooden table, ranging from classics like "Frankenstein" to contemporary Indigenous-authored works. A bookshelf filled with more books is in the background.

Most of this semester’s teaching.

7. Arendt defiende un modelo Atlántico basado en RR Palmer que en verdad solo se centra en esas dos revoluciones, americana y francesa, y olvida totalmente, un olvido culpable, revoluciones tan importantes como la haitiana (la cuestión de la esclavitud, también en la americana, está casi ausente).

6. De hecho, Arendt desconoce que, en buena medida a nivel institucional, la influencia de la Revolución Americana sobre la Francesa fue muy grande, con ejemplos clave como la constitución de Pennsylvania.

Me han pedido que comente algunos de los errores históricos.

1. Uno de los más obvios es la idealización de la Revolución Americana que conduce a olvidar la gran presencia de la violencia que recordó este libro. Las revoluciones también han sido a menudo guerras civiles.