David Wight, World of Histories

The Road to the Oil Shock In September 1973, Nixon dismissed Arab threats to cut oil production. Shortly thereafter, world oil prices quadrupled and the United States endured an Arab oil embargo. #oil... TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

The Road to the Oil Shock

In September 1973, Nixon dismissed Arab threats to cut oil production. Shortly thereafter, world oil prices quadrupled and the United States endured an Arab oil embargo.

#oil #MiddleEast #RichardNixon #oilcrisis #history

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Jibbon Dharawal Aboriginal Engravings Just outside Sydney, a testament to Dharawal art and culture #Dharawal #Aboriginal #Australia #Sydney #history TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

Jibbon Dharawal Aboriginal Engravings

Just outside Sydney, a testament to Dharawal art and culture

#Dharawal #Aboriginal #Australia #Sydney #history

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Detention Empire Currently Reading - Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance by Kristina Shull #DetentionEmpire #RonaldReagan #immigrants #ICE #history TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

Detention Empire

Currently Reading - Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance by Kristina Shull

#DetentionEmpire #RonaldReagan #immigrants #ICE #history

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Democracy Activist Lee Han-yeol A student protester whose sacrifice galvanized the cause of democracy in South Korea in June 1987 #protester #democracy #authoritarianism #SouthKorea #history TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

Democracy Activist Lee Han-yeol

A student protester whose sacrifice galvanized the cause of democracy in South Korea in June 1987

#protester #democracy #authoritarianism #SouthKorea #history

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Kissinger: A Social Secretary’s Dream So much cringe #HenryKissinger #WhiteHouse #WashingtonPost #cringe #history TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

Kissinger: A Social Secretary’s Dream

So much cringe

#HenryKissinger #WhiteHouse #WashingtonPost #cringe #history

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Government Intervention Get the full story of the origin of high US income taxes, and much more, in “Government Intervention: Trust-Busting to the Federal Reserve System” in Guide to U.S. Economic Po... TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

Government Intervention

Get the full story of the origin of high US income taxes, and much more, in “Government Intervention: Trust-Busting to the Federal Reserve System” in Guide to U.S. Economic Policy:
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#USA #Germany #WorldWarI #taxes

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Can You Guess What Archive I’m Outside?! Time to go searching through some boxes of documents! #archives #jeopardy #scenic #views #history TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

Can You Guess What Archive I’m Outside?!

Time to go searching through some boxes of documents!

#archives #jeopardy #scenic #views #history

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Final Exams Are Coming Just Say No To ChatGPT #FinalExams #ChatGPT #AI #students #instructors TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

Final Exams Are Coming

Just Say No To ChatGPT

#FinalExams #ChatGPT #AI #students #instructors

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No Fairies for Nixon! There were some very specific orders for choosing US president Richard Nixon’s interpreter in Yugoslavia… #fairy #masculine #type #RichardNixon #history TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

Blew past 25K views for this TikTok video last night!

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Castillo San Felipe de Barajas The largest Spanish fort in South America #SpanishEmpire #Colombia #Cartagena #SouthAmerica #History TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

Castillo San Felipe de Barajas

The largest Spanish fort in South America

#SpanishEmpire #Colombia #Cartagena #SouthAmerica #history

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Hit 100 followers on TikTok 😊

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No Fairies for Nixon! There were some very specific orders for choosing US president Richard Nixon’s interpreter in Yugoslavia… #fairy #masculine #type #RichardNixon #history TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

"No Fairies for Nixon!" now has over 10,000 views on TikTok!

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True Story Currently Reading - True Story: How A Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media by Shanon Fitzpatrick #TrueStory #massmedia #BernarrMacfadden #healthindustry #history TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

True Story

Currently Reading - True Story: How A Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media by Shanon Fitzpatrick

#TrueStory #massmedia #BernarrMacfadden #healthindustry #history

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How Many TikTok Followers? OK, no more followers, I have to stay here now! Just kidding, let’s get to 67 million followers! #6-7 #67 #SixSeven #TikTok #History TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

How Many TikTok Followers?

OK, no more followers, I have to stay here now! Just kidding, let’s get to 67 million followers!

#6-7 #67 #SixSeven #TikTok #history

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Passed 1,000 likes on TikTok

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight Ife Sculptures

Ife Sculptures

Copper-alloy and terracotta sculptures that have inspired for centuries.

#Africa #Nigeria #Benin #sculptures #history

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight Secret US Document Declassified?

Secret US Document Declassified?

How much can you redact from a declassified document? More than you might think!

#declassified #classified #secret #SaudiArabia #history

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Product Details Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight Colonialism in Its Worst Form?

Colonialism in Its Worst Form?

Saudi Arabia’s first oil minister had harsh words about Western oil companies in the Arab world.

#colonialism #oil #Arab #nationalization #history

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight Greensboro History Museum

Greensboro History Museum

One of the best city history museums around!

#Greensboro #NorthCarolina #museums #cities #history

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight Imperfect Strangers

Imperfect Strangers

Currently Reading - Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s by Salim Yaqub

#Americans #Arabs #ArabIsraeliConflict #1970s #history

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight Good Grief! Charlie Brown turns 75!

Good Grief! Charlie Brown turns 75!

Charlie Brown, and the cartoon strip Peanuts, debuted 75 years ago on October 2, 1950. They became a global phenomenon.

#CharlieBrown #Peanuts #Snoopy #cartoons #history

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No Fairies for Nixon! There were some very specific orders for choosing US president Richard Nixon’s interpreter in Yugoslavia… #fairy #masculine #type #RichardNixon #history TikTok video by World of Histories David Wight

Latest video doing particularly well on the TikTok:

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight No Fairies for Nixon!

No Fairies for Nixon!

There were some very specific orders for choosing US president Richard Nixon’s interpreter in Yugoslavia…

#fairy #masculine #type #RichardNixon #history

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight Kissinger’s Levantine Dilemma

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight Borobudur

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight A Date Which Will Live - Book Review #PearlHarbor #WorldWarII #Infamy #HistoricalMemory

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Oil Money by David M. Wight | Hardcover | Cornell University Press In Oil Money, David M. Wight offers a new framework for understanding the course of Middle East–US relations during the 1970s and 1980s: the transformation of the US global empire by Middle East petro...

I do have one book: Oil Money

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YouTube video by World of Histories with David Wight Sinking the Maine - Twice! #RememberTheMaine #USimperialism #Cuba #SpanishAmericanWar #TheMaine

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