#historians — Public Fediverse posts

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https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nvda/transcripts/740955-goldman-sachs-communacopia-technology-conference-2026/

PS: the site is blocking the Wayback Machine, so if y’all #tech #scholars #historians #journalists #activists you better fireup your Zoteros and scrape a copy of the webpage in its entirety before the transcript gets taken down.

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nvda/transcripts/740955-goldman-sachs-communacopia-technology-conference-2026/

PS: the site is blocking the Wayback Machine, so if y’all #tech #scholars #historians #journalists #activists you better fireup your Zoteros and scrape a copy of the webpage in its entirety before the transcript gets taken down.

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nvda/transcripts/740955-goldman-sachs-communacopia-technology-conference-2026/

PS: the site is blocking the Wayback Machine, so if y’all #tech #scholars #historians #journalists #activists you better fireup your Zoteros and scrape a copy of the webpage in its entirety before the transcript gets taken down.

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nvda/transcripts/740955-goldman-sachs-communacopia-technology-conference-2026/

PS: the site is blocking the Wayback Machine, so if y’all #tech #scholars #historians #journalists #activists you better fireup your Zoteros and scrape a copy of the webpage in its entirety before the transcript gets taken down.

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nvda/transcripts/740955-goldman-sachs-communacopia-technology-conference-2026/

The murky lagoon harbouring a centuries-old maritime mystery
By Jon Daly

The elusive Deadwater wreck is Western Australia's longest-running maritime mystery, encompassing colonial eyewitness accounts, artefacts tenuously linked to the wreck, and vivid folklore involving treasure, matricide and piracy.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/deadwater-wreck-mystery-baffles-centuries-on/107050790

#History #18thCentury #HumanInterest #19thCentury #Historians #Archaeology #LibrariesMuseumsandGalleries #JonDaly

One of the biggest hurdles in researching #history is being objective when it comes to #indigenous practices.

How does one reconcile the #cruelty of collecting kambo (frog toxin used for as a ritual drug) with the #traditional aspect of the practice?

Do I say neutrally: "Indigenous people of X collect Y to help with luck in hunting." and thereby omit the fact that this is a potentially questionable practice?

Or do I write: "Y is collected through inducing a forced stress response in Z, which is, by indigenous standards, necessary for facilitating practice A"

(FYI, I purposely used a tame subject).

Perhaps proper #historians have an answer to this?

#histodons #complicated

A tidbit for #war / #military #historians, esp. of #WW2 Eastern Front:

Pretty good evidence of some #Soviet Red Army units lacking even rifles in 1941 can be found from Finnish intelligence reports published in Porvali, M. (2021). Kohti itää: Päämajan kaukopartio-osasto Vehniäinen 1941. Atena.

#CfA for our 2027 Augustin Hirschvogel #Fellowship. We invite #historians, #geographers, #cartographers, #arthistorians and scholars in related fields w/ focus on Eastern or #SoutheastEurope to apply. Research stay of up to 4 weeks.
🗓️ Deadline: September 30, 2026
➡️ https://leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge-transfer/news/newsdetail/augustin-hirschvogel-fellowship-at-the-ios-2027

Work with outstanding researchers in one of Germany’s most beautiful cities:

#CfA for our 2027 Visiting Research Fellow Program for #historians, #economists, #politicalscientists and scholars of cognate disciplines focussing on #EasternEurope or #SoutheasternEurope.

👇 What we offer in the thread

#PoliSci #AreaStudies #histodons #histodonDE #histodonsDE

The Hickleton Skulls.

In the Northwest lychgate of Hickleton church is an inset in the wall with the skulls of three alleged sheep rustlers.

However, the truth is a little less romantic - they were placed there in 1880 by the 2nd Viscount Halifax and are a memento mori. The skulls were given by local medical students.

There's currently a campaign running to inter the skulls and replace them with fake replicas as it is unlikely that the poor victims ever consented to this (in very much the same way as many medical skeletons have now been interred as the person's skeleton was being used without prior consent).

#History #skull #historians

Premodernist is a historian making excellent in-depth videos on a wide range of historical topics, periods and locations. You can follow at:

➡️ @premodernist

(Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server is following them yet. If you follow, the videos will start showing up on your server too.)

#FeaturedPeerTube #History #Historians #AncientHistory #MedievalHistory #ModernHistory #PeerTube

Historians explain why everyone was so darn pale in those Victorian-era portraits

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/victorian-era-pale-portraits-ex1/

“ #TheAgeofExtremes, the #book that canonized him as a celebrity on a global scale, far beyond the boundaries of #academia. Anyone who read this work at the time was deeply struck by such a tour de force …” #EricHobsbawm #BookSky #historians #books www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ce...

The Century of Eric Hobsbawm

#Trump's second mandate reportedly tagged as the #Worst #mandate in #US #History , in an annual ranking by a commitee of 50 top #presidential #historians 😅😅😅👏👏👏

Don't judge, that is a different and personal way to enter #History... 😂

The goal was achieved :)

#Trump's second mandate reportedly tagged as the #Worst #mandate in #US #History , in an annual ranking by a commitee of 50 top #presidential #historians 😅😅😅👏👏👏

Don't judge, that is a different and personal way to enter #History... 😂

The goal was achieved :)

Archaeoethnologica: Carlo Ginzburg (1939 - 2026)

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/06/carlo-ginzburg-1939-2026.html

#History #historians #obituaries #microhistory #theory

Archaeoethnologica: Carlo Ginzburg (1939 - 2026)

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/06/carlo-ginzburg-1939-2026.html

#History #historians #obituaries #microhistory #theory

Archaeoethnologica: Carlo Ginzburg (1939 - 2026)

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/06/carlo-ginzburg-1939-2026.html

#History #historians #obituaries #microhistory #theory

Archaeoethnologica: Carlo Ginzburg (1939 - 2026)

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/06/carlo-ginzburg-1939-2026.html

#History #historians #obituaries #microhistory #theory

Archaeoethnologica: Carlo Ginzburg (1939 - 2026)

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/06/carlo-ginzburg-1939-2026.html

#History #historians #obituaries #microhistory #theory

Archaeoethnologica: Carlo Ginzburg (1939 - 2026)

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/06/carlo-ginzburg-1939-2026.html

#History #historians #obituaries #microhistory #theory

Archaeoethnologica: Carlo Ginzburg (1939 - 2026)

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/06/carlo-ginzburg-1939-2026.html

#History #historians #obituaries #microhistory #theory

Just two historians who take their sources very seriously.

#Historians #Podcasters

[#veille] L’IA pour l’histoire : succès, promesses, écueils | France Culture
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-cours-de-l-histoire/l-ia-pour-l-histoire-succes-promesses-ecueils-8808890

#archives #archivistodon #histodons #IA #historians

Writing the Trump Years Into History

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/writing-the-trump-years-into-history

No more #cognitive offloading https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/ai-thinking-cognitive-offloading/ I support the #brain and #writing https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2026/03/09/writing-critical-thinking-and-ai-where-are-we-headed/ #ai #tech #learning #academia #historians #history #journalism #psychology #philosophy #chatbots

How absolutely BARBAROUS!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2015784/how-absolutely-barbarous

#Historians research, analyse, and catalogue past follies of humanity. Since the collective behaviour of humans is cyclic, the insight of the historians is a reliable predictor of humanity’s #future.

And when people do not heed the warnings of the historians, past mistakes recur, as can be observed throughout the whole world, at present.

in my 4 decades of online life, i go where these people go:
#astronomers especially #NASA
#infosec & #hackers
#scientists especially epidemiologists, especially² #COVID19 #researchers
#lawyers
#DIY & #FLOSS
#bike riders
#musicians and #DJs cuz they’re curators by default
#photographers
#gardeners
#LGBTQIA+ esp trans folks
#disability activists
#sexWorkers
#metereology & #climate activists
#historians
#foodies

these people not only know what's newsworthy. they’re often the news.
🧵…

Artnet: Meet the Historians on a Mission to Document Every Object at the Smithsonian. “Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, which has recruited hundreds of volunteers to document every gallery, every object, and every wall label at the Smithsonian Institution’s museums as a safeguard against politically motivated erasure or censorship.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/06/artnet-meet-the-historians-on-a-mission-to-document-every-object-at-the-smithsonian/

"Chen Yaozuo was a #Teochew prime minister & grand tutor of the crown prince of the #SongDynasty (960–1279) in the 11th century. Coming from a family of officials, he was a rising star at the start of his career, until he bravely, or some might say foolishly, answered a call of Emperor Zhenzong for open criticisms by submitting a memorial that spelt out the ills of the times, including matters that no one else dared to speak about. As a result, Chen Yaozuo was banished & demoted to become an assistant prefect in the Teochew prefecture. This happened in 998, almost 180 years after Han Yu of the Tang dynasty suffered a similar fate."

"....Chen Yaozuo was more of a problem-solver than Han Yu, and he knew this. At the same time, he sensed the Teochew people’s deep admiration for his fellow Confucian. Cleverly capitalising on this, Chen Yaozuo erected a shrine in honour of Han Yu and he used it to commence his own programme to promote education among what was still a backward population. In pursuit of this goal, the Sichuan native also set up a Confucian temple and places of learning, while identifying and encouraging able families to send their children to schools.

Chen Yaozuo left Teochew after three years of devoted service to its people. He subsequently revealed in an inscription presented to a study room in Zhangpu (a county in Fujian adjacent to Teochew prefecture) that his time in Teo-yor was passed without major worries, despite it being enveloped in miasma."

"Chen Yaozuo’s heart remained with the place even many years after his departure. His poem below, “A note to Registrar Li Zi in Chaoyang” (送潮陽李孜主簿), illustrates this:

潮陽山水東南奇
The mountains and waters of Chaoyang are a wonder of the Southeast
魚鹽城郭民熙熙
Fishing boats, salt beds, and people going in and out of the city form a merry sight
當時為撰玄聖碑
Back then I had to write inscriptions for the sages
而今風俗鄒魯為。
Today its customs are like Zou and Lu [i.e. the home countries of Mencius and Confucius]

#Chinese #historians credit Han Yu for starting what we may call a #revolution through #literacy in Teochew. Yet the extent of Chen Yaozuo’s tireless contributions towards this cause can be seen by its fruits. Before his arrival, the Teochew prefecture produced only three men who attained the status of jinshi, the highest scholarly title awarded by the Chinese imperial court since the late 6th century. By the end of Song, the records show more than 170 jinshi from Teochew, of whom about a third came from Teo-yor.

Beyond scholarly titles, the creation of an educated class sparked a golden age in Teochew with accelerated advancements in agriculture and industry that ended its days as a backwater."

Ref: https://inf.news/en/history/08fbe530527e724eeeee5320bff4f3b9.html

Ref: https://www.theteochewstore.org/blogs/latest/teochew-through-the-eyes-of-its-visitors-chen-yaozou-an-unsung-hero

#AsianMastodon #China #Gaginang #ChineseRevolutionaries #ChineseImperialEra #TeochewHistory #ChineseHistory #AsianHistory #SouthEastAsia #HistoryOfChina #LearnHistory #TootSEA #ChineseScholars #TeochewRoots

Before I head out for the day ->
Recommended #documentary film.

Between 1952 and 1960, Britain fought a vicious war in Kenya against the anticolonial Mau Mau movement. It was an exceptionally bloody conflict, with atrocities committed on both sides. For decades, many of the worst abuses by British colonial forces were kept hidden. Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture – including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations.

A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman.

Document archive is courtesy of the UK National Archives.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sSGd2w_rk

#ColonialViolence #GlobalSouth #Kenya #BritishColonizers #Colonialism #AfricanHistory #HumanHistory #Geopolitics #BritishHistory #ColonialExploitation #ColonialAbuses #MauMau #ColonialResistance #Decolonization #Educational #DocFilm #Africa #BlackHistory #POCstories #LearnHistory #SystematicRacism #Torture #WarCrimes #UKhistory #ColonialAtrocities #historians #history