Marie Antoinette & December 9
#marieantoinette #History #AdventCalendar #histodons
https://empressofhab.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/advent-calendar-with-marie-antoinette-co-december-9/
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There comes a time in the life of every presenter when they can’t figure out why a particular slide has suddenly popped up in their presentation.
This is me, today, trying and failing to understand why I wanted to show this map in my talk about my book, He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada.
It only came to me later that this was what France wanted the boundaries of Canada and the United States to look like at the end of the American Revolution. The US and Britain had other ideas.
The audience was gracious about this slight blip, and asked some great questions. I want to thank Alexandra Gheciu of the Centre for International Policy Studies for inviting me to talk, and the CIPS team, including Noah Dreyfuss, for making it happen.
#hedidnotconquer #history #canada #histodons #benjaminfranklin
The University of the West Indies has a 50% off holiday sale with code 03UWIP25. And since web orders from the U.S. are shipped from their U.S. distributors, you won't have to worry about the shipment being blown up in the Caribbean by our trigger-happy war-criming administration. Sorry, that took a dark turn.
Check out their wonderful selection of all things #Caribbean, including histories of #slavery and the case for #reparations by the eminent scholar Hilary McD. Beckles.
https://www.uwipress.com/9789766408695/how-britain-underdeveloped-the-caribbean/
Father Pierre-Jean De Smet:
A Romantic History of Beginnings in Montana
There are lives that arrive like a single footstep on an endless plain — slight, distinct, and enough to set the world to remembering. Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801–1873) is one of those footsteps in the story of Montana. Born in Termonde, Belgium, and taking...for further reading see link below.
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people#h.ojuju2cuawdm
#WorldHistory
#USHistory
#MTHistory
#Montana
#History
#BSTS
#Fourosix
#MontanaToday
#histodons
Vielen Dank an alle #histodons & alle anderen, die boostend an der #Verlosung eines Exemplars von #WerkstattGeschichte 65/2015 »dis/ability« teilgenommen haben!
Die Ziehung (von der selbstverständlich Redaktionsmitglieder und Mitherausgebende ausgeschlossen waren) hat nun stattgefunden: Gewonnen hat diesmal @jtheseamstress – herzlichen Glückwunsch!
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Classic post: history is written by losers, because they have time to write https://www.bookandsword.com/2013/09/29/who-writes-the-history-books/ #histodons #historiography #ancMedToot
#OTD in 1929, gunmen robbed a #BronxNY testimonial dinner for Magistrate Albert #Vitale, exposing a link between officials and organized crime..
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2019/12/vitale-dinner-holdup-sparks.html
#OTD in 2024, former #NewEngland #Mafia boss Luigi #Manocchio passed away in #BristolRI.
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2024/12/ex-new-england-boss-manocchio-dies.html
#OTD (Dec 08) in 1952, U.S. officials prepare to deport #LosAngeles crime boss Jack #Dragna.
#OTD (Dec 08) in 1944, eleven Italian-American defendants go on trial in #Pittsburgh federal court for conspiracy to violate the national #bankruptcy act.
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week December 8-14 with film! We're excited to recommend films about heroes of computing to get students of all genders inspired about STEM careers. For grades 4 & up.
😎 Breaking Enigma
💪 Her War, Her Story
🚀 Hidden Figures
Learn more:
#Movies #Histodons #History #ComputerScienceEducationWeek #CSEdWeek #CSEdWeek2025 #ComputerScience #StemEducation #SteamEducation #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling
And it's not just about extension services.
Think about:
- Scientists' lab notebooks with abandoned experiments that might be promising with today's technology
- Rejected grant proposals addressing problems we can now tackle
- Field notes from geological surveys- Medical case files, engineering reports, meteorological observations
The scientific archive is vast. Most of it has been inaccessible not because it's lost, but because reading it at scale was impossible. That constraint is disappearing. The past is becoming computationally accessible in ways we're only beginning to understand. And as a historian of science, this is an amazing opportunity to realize George Sarton's imagined synthesis of science and the humanities: The New Humanism.
If you're at a land-grant institution and want to explore this, I'd love to talk.
Read the full post at https://foundhistory.org/seeing-old-science/
#OTD (Dec 08) in 2024, former #NewEngland #Mafia boss Luigi #Manocchio passed away at the #RhodeIsland Veterans Home in #BristolRI.
#OTD (Dec 08) in 1966, #Pittsburgh mob-linked proprietors of Red Dog casino in #ChesterWV learn of impending raid by government agents and empty the facility of #gambling equipment.
#OTD (Dec 08) in 1959, authorities note a large meeting of #Massachusetts, #RhodeIsland and #Connecticut gambling racketeers at a restaurant in #WorcesterMA and a smaller meeting at a nearby hotel.
#OTD (Dec 08) in 1929, in early morning hours, the #Bronx testimonial dinner for Magistrate Albert #Vitale is interrupted by gunmen who rob attendees, including political leaders, crime figures and one police officer.
RE: https://openbiblio.social/@hsozkult/115667708343222182
Sehr interessanter Bericht von @DigHisNoah über die Sektionen zur #digitalhistory beim #histag25 (nicht nur, weil meine Sektion mehrfach erwähnt wird :) - er trifft m.E. einen Punkt mit der Analyse, wo die DigHist steht, zwischen Konsolidierung und zugleich Trennung vom übrigen Geschehen und den Kommunikationsschwierigkeiten, vor denen wir mehr denn je stehen… #histodons #digitalegeschichte #historikertag
#OnThisDay, 8 Dec 1972, Whetu Tirikātene-Sullivan is sworn in as Minister of Tourism in Aotearoa / New Zealand. She's the first Māori woman to be a Cabinet minister.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #Histodons
We put up #Christmas trees because… ancient solstice celebrations did it first 🎄
Evergreens symbolized life during winter darkness for Egyptians, Romans, Hopi, Persians and others. Christians adopted the tree centuries later, and Queen Victoria made it a worldwide trend. https://theconversation.com/the-christmas-tree-is-a-tradition-older-than-christmas-195636 #Histodons @histodons
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