Pretty great resource.... tolerance.org

Solid stuff by two pretty great academics. Dr. Peniel E. Joseph 🇭🇹🇺🇸 @WilliamHPalk open.spotify.com/episode/0P3r5g…

1) A stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread: this enigmatic Roman gold ring was found in a ploughed field near Silchester in 1785. The square bezel has a portrait of the pagan goddess Venus, inscribed backwards SUNEV for use as a signet ring by the owner. Curiously...

Gosh, the Battle of Britain myth vs reality thing has heated up! Britain won the battle because it was better prepared, had a clearer strategy, much better operational level, superior tactics, better intelligence & drew on the many not just the Few. That’s good, isn’t it? WNTL?

History is the country music of academic disciplines - a lot deeper and complex than it's given credit for and often only consumed in short, catchy deliveries. Country music is the coffee table Histories of music.

"Unfortunately, I have lived long enough to know that history is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such." Henry Stimson. @WilliamHPalk @raoulmeyer Thoughts? mises.org/library/hirosh…

What a great chat with Prof Karen Harris! Insightful and necessary. Aubrey Masango @WilliamHPalk Kwantu Feature - Mfecane/Difaqane Wars omny.fm/shows/talk-at-…

Ah, as Sandra Swart once said, Historians connect the idiographic with the nomothetic...whatever the fuck that means. Do Historians just walk around knowing what these terms mean?! Sandra Swart

Looking forward to speaking Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre in #SouthAfrica this Wednesday about lessons from the #Genocide Against Tutsi in #Rwanda. (Virtual event, free & open to the public.) Remarks based on my article published by Stanford Law School’s Stanford Law & Policy Review and free at: ssrn.com/abstract=34314….

So classy. They used to be classy.

We just published the 75th episode of High School History Recap on Buzzsprout! @WilliamHPalk buzzsprout.com/944875/achieve…

Colin du Plessis @WilliamHPalk Way to go, Colin! Congratulations on publishing your 75th episode. 🎉🎉

Enjoyed the conversation with fellow travelers of history teaching Colin du Plessis and @WilliamHPalk. Their interest in history teaching and learning is deeply engaging. Check out their other conversations at highschoolhistoryrecap.buzzsprout.com

We hear it from students all the time: “.com websites are bad. .edu and .org websites are good, unless it’s Wikipedia.” These misconceptions can lead students dangerously astray. A thread on the problem and lesson ideas to use with your students. 🧵