KCK baseball field to be renamed Elijah Ming Memorial Field after unanimous vote https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/443960/ #Baseball #BaseballField #ElijahMing #HeathwoodPark #historian #KansasCity #KansasCityKansas #LeavenworthCounty #Memorial #RachelHenderson #WyandotteCounty
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LED ZEPPELIN Historian DENNY SOMACH Drops New Bombshells – Lost BLACK SABBATH Jam, Song-Theft Secrets Revealed; Video
#LEDZEPPELIN #DENNYSOMACH #Historian #DropsNewBombshells #EP #video #interview #BraveWords #metal #music
"On a frigid winter’s day in #1906, tens of thousands of #Jewish parents in #NewYork’s #LowerEastSide and #Brooklyn kept their #children home from #school.
It wasn’t a snow day, but a protest: Activists and the #Yiddish press had called for a #boycott of the #Christmas assemblies and pageants that they knew Jewish children would be obliged to attend on the day before the holiday.
“#Jews Object to Christmas in the #Schools,” blared the #NewYorkTimes. The Brooklyn Eagle warned that “agitators” sought to rob Christian children of their traditions. The boycott was, depending on the source, a valiant cry for #religiousfreedom, or the first shot in the 100-year-plus “#waronChristmas.”
The episode is the subject of #historian Scott D. Seligman’s new #book, “The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906,” which reconstructs how a seemingly local dispute in one Brooklyn school exploded into a test case for religious freedom and civic belonging."
https://www.jta.org/2025/11/16/culture/when-jews-really-did-wage-a-war-on-christmas
There are two key things that a historian must have. One is curiosity. But the other is empathy. If you're not empathetic, you shouldn't be writing history. ~ #HenryReynolds #quotes #history #historian #curiosity #empathy
Link to Late Night Live episode featuring quote on ABC RN's website: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/henry-reynolds-looking-from-north-australia-history-david-marr/105871422
“The Wounded Generation”: Bearing the invisible scars of war – YouTube
“The Wounded Generation”: Bearing the invisible scars of war
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When the “Greatest Generation” returned home from World War II, many veterans had suffered psychic wounds that were not diagnosed or understood at the time to be PTSD. For his new book, “The Wounded Generation,” historian David Nasaw researched the experiences of WWII veterans – from suffering survivor’s guilt, to receiving electro-shock therapy treatments – that give insights into the emotional traumas facing veterans of all wars. Lesley Stahl reports.
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"Over the past 20 years, #historian Stanley Cassar Darien has been the go-to guide for those who want to explore #Malta, arranging visits for heads of state, embassies, VIPs and TV crews. Born and bred in Malta, he has a deep appreciation for #history, local #culture and Malta’s #Jewish heritage, and takes visitors to hidden places that most guidebooks don’t mention. In this interview, Cassar Darien shares the secrets of the island country’s #Jewishhistory."
Jewish #Historian DESTROYS Zionist LIES, w./ #ZacharyFoster
"Amy Newman [no relation], an #art #historian whose past #books include one about Artforum’s early years, isn’t the first to highlight the role that #Jewish identity played in the development of #postwar #abstraction—others like the curator Mark Godfrey have already done so, and quite thoughtfully, too. But Barnett Newman: Here makes this #artist’s #religion so central that it’s hard to ignore, and that is rare. Tellingly, the book is titled after the #Torah #parsha read at Newman’s #barmitzvah—one of the most sacred passages of the #Pentateuch, in which #Moses communicates directly with God, saying: “I am here.”
It’s not as though Newman hid his Jewish identity from the public eye. He frequently led disquisitions on the #Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism that became, as this new biography notes, “one of the many hallmarks that he appropriated to define his historical person.” (“‘Pious,’ he wasn’t, but identified he was,” Amy Newman writes.)"
"#Stanford #historian Steven J. Zipperstein had already begun his own #biography of Roth before the author died in 2018 and while Bailey’s #book was under contract. “#PhilipRoth: Stung by Life,” part of Yale University Press’s “#Jewish Lives” series, isn’t meant as a corrective to Bailey’s book or the fallout. But it does argue why Roth remains relevant and vital, especially to current Jewish discourse.
Writes Zipperstein: “He would probe nearly every aspect of contemporary Jewish life: the passions of Jewish childhood, the pleasures and anguish of postwar Jewish suburbia, Israel, diaspora, the Holocaust, circumcision, the interplay between the nice Jewish boy and the turbulent one deep inside.”
Today we have a special treat: a Q&A with professor Jill Burke. Professor Burke is a historian with a talent for uncovering the real lives behind Renaissance-era beauty practices, standards, and trends.
Renaissance Beauty Was Hardcore: Makeup, Mercury & Midnight Bathhouses
Today we have a special treat: a Q&A with University of Edinburgh professor Jill Burke. Professor Burke is a historian with a talent for uncovering the real lives behind Renaissance-era beauty practices, standards, and trends.
If you need world-building inspiration or are just a fan of history, you’ll soon find that professor Burke is a wealth of information.
Get ready for arsenic hair removal and feathered hats.
Did people wear makeup back then?
Yes. Makeup was common and part of everyday grooming in Renaissance Europe, especially in cities such as Venice, Florence, and Rome. Women especially used colour make up such as pale foundation, rouges, and eyebrow colour.
They also had quite sophisticated skincare treatments (what we’d call face masks, moisturisers, anti-wrinkle creams, toners, exfoliants made from breadcrumbs or bran), many different types of perfumes, and hair treatments. Skincare was considered a branch of medicine, not merely vanity, and beauty manuals contained hundreds of recipes using ingredients such as egg whites, animal fats, herbs, and minerals. Fair, unblemished skin and bright eyes were seen as signs of health, virtue, and good breeding.
Some of the ingredients, like mercury and lead, were known to be dangerous to health, but their use was widespread in both cosmetics and medicine. Cosmetics were not limited to the elite: printed “books of secrets” and street-sold recipes made beauty culture accessible to working women as well.
Movies and other media about or inspired by the medieval to renaissance eras rarely if ever have people wear hats. Did people wear hats back then?
Most people wore caps, hats or other headcoverings (veils etc) all the time, both inside and outside the house and also covered their heads whilst sleeping. Both men and women covered their heads in public.
For women, hair covering was expected after adolescence and took many forms: veils, hoods, caps, and decorative hats that indicated marital status and social rank. In Venice, for instance, married women were rarely seen bareheaded.
Men’s hats were equally important, ranging from soft felt caps to broad-brimmed, feathered hats among the upper classes.
Head coverings were both a matter of modesty and a reflection of fashion and health: protecting the scalp and regulating the body’s balance were considered medical concerns.
What beauty practices’ might surprise people of today?
Lots! For example:
- Women bleached their hair on rooftops using caustic lotions while wearing wide straw hats with open crowns to expose the hair to sunlight.
- Hair removal was achieved with depilatory pastes made from lime and arsenic compounds—effective but risky!
- As most people didn’t have bathrooms, most had to go to public bathhouses, perhaps fortnightly in summer, once a month in winter in Italy (less in Northern Europe). To keep clean, people changed their linen undershirts regularly, believing that clean fabric absorbed dirt and oils from the skin.
- Surgeons offered reconstructive procedures for noses and ears damaged by disease or injury, which were considered part of the broader pursuit of beauty and health. Skincare, perfumery, and even dental hygiene were all regarded as aspects of the same bodily care.
Is it true that clothing colors or styles were regulated for what class you were in?
Yes, through sumptuary laws. Across Italian and other European states, local governments tried to control what materials, colours, and ornaments different groups could wear. These regulations aimed to preserve visible distinctions between nobles, merchants, and artisans. They might forbid non-nobles from wearing silk, velvet, gold embroidery, or certain bright colours like crimson and purple.
In practice, they were notoriously unsuccessful. Enforcement was uneven, and wealthy townspeople often ignored the rules or paid fines as a kind of luxury tax. Still, the laws reveal how deeply clothing was tied to ideas of morality, hierarchy, and civic order.
How different were fabrics between the classes?
The richest citizens wore silks, velvets, cloth-of-gold, and fine wools lined with fur. But new research on artisans and shopkeepers shows that non-elites were far from drab. They used a thriving second-hand market, mixed-fibre textiles such as fustian (a cotton-linen blend), and dyed fabrics that imitated more expensive materials.
Colour was a key form of self-expression: even lower-status wardrobes contained reds, blues, and yellows.
The difference, therefore, was often in quality and finish rather than in access to fashion itself. Fine white linen, worn visibly at the neck and cuffs, was one of the clearest signs of respectability, since it required constant washing and starching.
How different were beauty standards compared to today?
Beauty ideals were narrower and more moralised. The perfect woman was imagined as fair-skinned, with golden or light hair, a serene expression, small mouth, high forehead, and modest bearing. Physical beauty was thought to reflect inner virtue, chastity, and good health, so external appearance carried moral weight. Whiteness was both a colour ideal and a social marker, linked to class, purity, and emerging racial hierarchies.
At the same time, women’s beauty was seen as a form of power, capable of inspiring desire and moral danger, which made it both celebrated and suspect.
Did fashion tastes change quickly, or did certain styles last a long time?
Fashion changed, but not quite with the speed of modern trends. Garments were valuable and meant to last, so styles evolved gradually across decades rather than seasons. Sleeves, collars, and decorative panels could be replaced to refresh a gown or doublet. Shifts in silhouette, colour preference, and textile technology did occur: for example, the move from flowing fifteenth-century gowns to the more structured, corseted shapes of the sixteenth century.
The fashion for black amongst men’s clothing spread from Burgundy to in the mid to late fifteenth century and was widely taken up in Italy in the early sixteenth. Around this time men started to have beards and wear large codpieces. You don’t see this in fifteenth century fashions.
Certain hairstyles, such as the long plait and forehead ribbon of Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with Ermine are associated with certain historical moments (in this case the Milanese court in the 1490s and early 1500s, it dies out almost completely by the later 1510s). Among artisans and tradespeople, fashion spread through adaptation—reusing materials, dyeing fabrics, sewing on accessories such as ribbons, buttons etc, and following elite models in simplified form.
More From Jill Burke
If you loved this peek into Renaissance beauty and fashion, you’ll want to dive deeper into Dr. Burke’s work. Her book, How to Be a Renaissance Woman, goes even further — exploring the daily rituals, medical beliefs, and bold creativity that shaped women’s lives in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
#author #historian #history #JillBurke #medieval #professor #reference #Renaissance #WorldBuilding #writer #writing
#FriedrichEngels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in #Manchester – Cambridge #historian Emily Chung finds #philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated #history #SocialHistory
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/21/friedrich-engels-segregated-manchester-cambridge-historian
I remember Letters from America, on the #BBC #Radio 4 by the late #AlastairCooke
I liked them. An Englishman in the USA explaining some of the things about the USA which seemed initially weird to the British, and afterward weird and described.
#ProfRichardson is an American, a #historian, talking about America or American events.
Interesting.
#LettersFromAnAmerican
#Podcast
https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/vxrvh-2ecd1a/Letters-from-an-American-Podcast
The German Booksellers' Peace Prize, a prestigious award recognizing individuals who promote understanding and reconciliation, was presented to German East Euro... https://news.osna.fm/?p=19953 | #news #award #crossborder #historian #honors
16 Oct 1588: b. Luke Wadding of #Waterford #otd #Franciscan Scotist #philosopher #historian, founder of two #Irish colleges in #Rome.
The man who had St Patrick’s Day made a universal feast.
New Plan:
The #government should be run #technocratic
#scientist #mathemetician #historian
#science #mathematics #history
I've been trying to learn more about the history/origins of #NeedleFelting (making three dimensional objects with wool by tucking or "felting" the fibers together with a needle, often barbed for the purpose).
Any #TextileHistory wizzes or #historian who knows more about this?
It seems so new, but why?
#TextileArts #History #AskFedi
Historian Finally Identifies Nazi in Infamous Holocaust Photo Using AI https://petapixel.com/2025/10/08/historian-finally-identifies-nazi-in-infamous-holocaust-photo-using-ai/ #historicalphoto #sovietunion #bellingcat #provenance #worldwarii #historian #holocaust #Features #research #nazis #News
365 Versions of Not-Me
No. 1: The historian
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It'd be so useful if there was a book-length academic history of #freesoftware by a professional #historian from outside the movement.
What I've seen is that histories of free software tend:
- to be written by involved parties or journalists;
- not to put it in context and don't treat primary sources critically;
- to briefly mention it, then move on to talk about #opensource; and
- don't keep going into the 2000s and later.
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