Last Call for Proposals! Tomorrow March 15th is the final day to submit a proposal for the 50th SSHA Conference in Chicago, Nov 20-23 2025 at the Palmer House Hotel. Please consider submitting a paper or panel at https://ssha2025.ssha.org.
Questions to executivedirector@ssha.org.
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #globalhealth #socialscience

Lundi prochain au séminaire d'histoire #africaine : Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu (CNRS/CRH) et Ibrahima Seck (univ. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar), Formes de l’#oralité – Sources orales vs. oralité dans les sources (écrites).

17 mars | 16:15h | format hybride

https://www.dhi-paris.fr/fr/informations-detaillees/seminare/SeminarTime/detail/online-und-vor-ort-jenseits-der-schrift4271.html

#histoireorale #histodons @histodons

Un nouveau billet : “Ici se trouvent des dragons”
Où je tente des trucs, en recoupant des filigranes et les comptes des administrations financières de Bologne pour comprendre comment celles-ci s'approvisionnent en papier.
Un peu technique, mais j'ai essayé de me mettre des idées au clair sur un petit corpus test.
Et puis, ya de jolis dragons...

https://papetierspo.hypotheses.org/501

A video on the complex cross-section of a broad flat sword blade of the post-cruciform era (the old austere rules for Latin Christian swords start to break down after 1450) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z6vwtQjM7Q #sword #histodons #medieval

Today, March 14, in 1964, Dallas, Texas nightclub owner Jack Ruby was convicted of murder with malice and sentenced to death for shooting and killing President John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald (Ruby, 1992)

"Articles written by historians for the National Park Service, for example, have been altered, and in some instances deleted, because they examine history with references to gender or sexuality. These revisions were made without the authors’ knowledge or consent, and without public acknowledgment that the original articles had been revised."

AHA–OAH Joint Statement on Federal Censorship of American History
https://www.historians.org/news/aha-oah-joint-statement-on-federal-censorship-of-american-history/

Fátima Sá est l'une des coordinatrices de l'ouvrage « Langages de l’identité et de la différence dans le monde ibéro-américain (1770-1890) », « un ensemble qui apporte une contribution forte à la réflexion sur la forge des #LangagesPolitiques et leur fonction dans la construction des communautés politiques et de l’imaginaire social. » (Clément Thibaud, Préface).

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/livre/langages-de-l-identite-et-de-la-difference-dans-le-monde-ibero-americain-1770-1890/76478

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New article published! “From Quarantine to Deglobalisation” by Tabea Scharrer, our RTG member Chinwe Beneditte Ogbonna, and Gerhild Perl is out in “Routed: Migration & (Im)mobility Magazine” (Issue 26). It explores shifting mobility under pandemic constraints. Read it here: https://t1p.de/co-article01

@unifreiburg @dfg_public @politicalscience @sociology @mehlera @histodons #migration #globalstudies #academicpublishing #histodons #sociology #politicalscience

Heute vor 50 Jahren starb die #Schauspielerin #SusanHayward in #Hollywood. 1959 hatte sie den #Oscar als beste Hauptdarstellerin für ihre Rolle in »Laßt mich leben« gewonnen. Mehr zum #Film:

Ulrike Weckel, Mit Mitteln des Spielfilms gegen die #Todesstrafe. I Want to Live! (1958), #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/muell/

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Educators, thank you for everything you do to counter Holocaust Denial.

We have free resources to help you teach Holocaust Education accurately, across the curriculum (tell your colleagues!), for grades 6-12. In addition to English, History and Social Studies classes, these free lesson plans also cover English Language Arts, Film Literacy, Film History, Media Literacy, Music, Music History, Political Science, Psychology, and Visual Literacy.

https://sharemylesson.com/blog/teaching-holocaust-education-film

#NeverAgain #Holocaust #HolocaustEducation #Education #Edutooters #Homschooling #History #Histodons @education @edutooters

Heute vor 100 Jahren begann in #Hamburg ein #Hungerstreik von 75 kommunistischen Insassen der #Haftanstalt #Fuhlsbüttel - einer der Aufhänger für den Beitrag unseres Redaktionsmitglieds zum Thementeil #PolitischeGefangene:

Max Buschmann, „Freiheit oder Hungertod“. Hungerstreiks als Protestform politischer Gefangener in der frühen #WeimarerRepublik, #WerkstattGeschichte 80/2019, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-80-maximilian-buschmann/

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How an unexpected observation, a 10th-century recipe and an explorer’s encounter with a cabbage thief upend what we thought we knew about collard greens’ journey to the American South. https://theconversation.com/how-an-unexpected-observation-a-10th-century-recipe-and-an-explorers-encounter-with-a-cabbage-thief-upend-what-we-know-about-collard-greens-journey-to-the-american-south-239456 @histodons #Histodons @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

**Trade map of the West Indies and North America, 1741**

#Image attribution: Henry Overton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_new_and_correct_map_of_the_trading_part_of_the_West_Indies.png.

#Map #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Spain #Europe #NorthAmerica #WestIndies #Caribbean #Trade #C18th #18thCentury @histodon @histodons

**Uncle Sam, Teddy Bear And Trade Routes**

Title: My, my, such possibilities
Artist: Clifford K. Berryman, 1869-1949.
Created/Published: [ca. 1913].

Citation: Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, Artist. My, My, Such Possibilities., ca. 1913. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016679406/.

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartoon #Drawing #Map #PanamaCanal #UncleSam #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #CentralAmerica #SouthAmerica #Trade @histodon @histodons

**The Real Magna Carta**

_“Less famous than its 1215 predecessor, the Magna Carta of 1225 held the true power.”_

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/real-magna-carta

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #England #MagnaCarta @histodon @histodons @medievodons

**The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League**

_”The Hanseatic League united merchants to bargain with kings, blockade cities, and even win wars. But when technology changed, defections began and the coalition fell apart.”

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hanseatic-league/

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Trade #Europe @histodon @histodons @medievodons

'Rise of the south: How Arab-led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE' by Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin & Kaixiang Peng argues that Arab & Persian Muslim traders account for an all-important southward shift in China's economy, Lead paper in v65 of the Asia-Pacific Economic Hist Review! OA
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70000
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #China

#OnThisDay, March 13, in 2013, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the papal conclave elected Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church (depicted in The Two Popes, 2019)

I love the description - from a forthcoming article by a colleague - of Upper Canada (today's southern Ontario) when created in 1791 as a haven for refugees from the US tax revolt.