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#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.

Chapeau!

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Cycling #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Newsclipping. Headline: She drank her ale at the bar. Subheading: Girl Cyclist in Rahway Amazed Loungers in Chamberlain's. Story then tells how the woman ordered and drank a beer straight from the bottle whilst standing at the bar, to the amazement of the men in there.

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The #Holocaust decimated not only Yiddish cultures of Eastern Europe, but also Ladino cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, which had flourished for centuries.

The 1,700 Jews of Rhodes were deported to Auschwitz 80 years ago, when Allied victory was almost in sight.

Their fate reflects how genocide remained a Nazi priority to the bitter end.
https://theconversation.com/remembering-the-longest-journey-to-auschwitz-the-deportation-of-rhodes-jews-decimated-a-small-but-vibrant-community-with-centuries-of-mediterranean-history-235390
#Histodons @histodons #Jewish

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#OnThisDay, 25 Aug 1932, Amelia Earhart successfully lands in Newark, New Jersey, to become the first woman to fly solo across the USA.

Earhart records a series of first flights by a woman, before disappearing during an attempt to fly around the world in 1937.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons

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Are you teaching Elie Wiesel's Night? We have engaging, age-appropriate Holocaust Education films to boost student engagement.

Big Sonia, about real-life Holocaust Survivor. Our Big Sonia lesson plans are for grades 9-12.

The Fast Runner, about a Polish girl who comes of age during the rise of the Nazi party. Our teaching resources for The Fast Runner are for grades 6-12 and higher ed.

https://journeysinfilm.org/holocaust-education-resources-new-at-journeys-in-film/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Nov+25&utm_term=Wiesel&utm_content=link

@bookstodon
@histodons

#Education #Edutooters #History #Histodons #Homeschooling #Holocaust #HolocaustEducation #WorldWarII #WWII #ElieWiesel

The book cover for Night by Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. It shows an illustration of a concentration camp surrounded by a barbed wire fence. A solitary figure stands in silhouette at the fence.

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"We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society."
- Ruby Bridges

On this day in 1960, Ruby Bridges walked into a New Orleans school and sparked change that still shapes classrooms today.

1/2 More below! 👇

#BlackHistory #BlackVoices #History #Histodons #USHistory #CivlRights #Education #OTD #OnThisDay

Black and white photo of Ruby Bridges as a young schoolgirl, circa 1960. She is a beautiful, bright-eyed Black child. She stands with her back against an open door, her eyes turned up, smiling.

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#OnThisDay, 24 Oct 1901, American Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first *person* to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

The cat did *not* do the stunt with her.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Annie Edson Taylor being helped ashore along a plank, having survived the falls. She is a white woman in a blouse and skirts.

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Annie Edson Taylor standing with the barrel "Queen of the Mist". She is a white woman in large skirts, and is only a few inches taller than the barrel. A small white cat is sitting on top of the barrel.

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#OnThisDay, 19 Nov 1933, women across Spain voted for the first time.

Franco was in power from 1939, after the Spanish Civil War. Under his dictatorship only the heads of households could vote, radically reducing women's rights until after his death in 1975.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #SpanishHistory #Histodons

Three older Spanish women in long gowns voting at a polling station in 1933. There is a woman receiving their ballots, and a couple of men and a young woman watching.

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The last link is up on my website too, plus some other tape weirdities from way back. https://robertafidora.com/news/blog/7100253/rewinding-cassettes-a-tape-miscellany #Cassette #Cassettes #Tape #Tapes #Retro #Music #Histodons #MusicHistory #Musodon

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The 1619 Project was not a legal claim. It did not declare that the nation was born in bondage. What it said—plainly—was that America’s founding ideals were inseparable from its founding crimes. Black Americans were not passengers. They were agents. Not beneficiaries—Builders.

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#history #blackmastodon #histodons #blackandwhite #photography #photo

Image: The book by Nikole Hannah-Jones at a bookstore on November 17, 2021 in New York City (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

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#OnThisDay, 11 Oct 1922, Alaska P Davidson becomes the first woman to be an FBI Special Agent. She was employed to focus on the trafficking of women across state lines.

J Edgar Hoover requests her resignation, along with her colleagues Jessie Duckstein and Lenore Houston, in 1924. The FBI does not appoint another woman as a Special Agent until 1972.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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photo of Alaska P Davidson. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.

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Hey #Bookstodon - I am in a bit of a reading rut and need some #recommendations to help me get out. Do you have any good recommendations for historical #fiction? I would even take some well-written #history or #travel books. My only restriction is that I would like recommendation not focused on the United States (but I am open if it is good). Thanks!

#Books #literature #historicalfiction #histodon #histodons @bookstodon

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📣 CFP – Université d’été 2026 à l’IHA Paris
Comment le numérique transforme-t-il l’histoire des migrations ? Sources massives, méthodes computationnelles, visualisations, enjeux éthiques…

Master avancé, doctorant·e·s, post-docs : candidatez et venez discuter vos projets !

📅 22–26 juin 2026 | 📨 deadline : 15 janvier 2026

=> https://dhiha.hypotheses.org/3813

#migration #histoirenumerique #histodons #digitalhistory #HumanitésNumériques #histoiredesmigrations #SIG #textmining

colored code written on black background. in blue : Faire de l'histoire des migrations avec les méthodes numériques, and orange: Université d'été 2026 à l'IHA. the logos of university Luxemburg, C2Dh and DHI

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“Had she been a man she would have become Prime Minister.“

#OnThisDay, 21 Oct 1958, Stella Isaacs (Baroness Swanborough) becomes the first woman to take a seat in the UK House of Lords.

She campaigned tirelessly for the rights of refugee children.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #histodons

Stella Isaacs in the uniform of the WVS she helped found. She is a white woman with light or silver hair and she's looking thrilled about something.

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Love is like an itchin' in my heart...

#OnThisDay, 22 Oct 1966, The Supremes become the first all-woman group to get to no 1 in the US Billboard album charts with The Supremes A' Go-Go.

Listen to their version of Get Ready: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_7_MhgHhc

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #PopHistory #Histodons

Cover of the album, showing the members of the Supremes dancing

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#OnThisDay, 27 Oct 1967, the Abortion Act gains royal assent. It allows women in the UK – except for Northern Ireland - to legally have an abortion on a range of medical grounds but stops short of making abortion legal.

It came into effect in April 1968 everywhere except Northern Ireland: NI passed their own act in 2020.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

Six women holding up signs that together read "no return to back street abortion"

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#OnThisDay, 28 Oct 1908, Muriel Matters, Violet Tillard and Helen Fox unfurl a banner and then chain themselves to the grille in the Ladies Gallery in the House of Commons, London, demanding votes for women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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Dramatic newspaper illustration of Muriel Matters being taken away along with the trellis she had chained herself to. She is white, as are all the dudes in tailcoats trying to tell her off.

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#OnThisDay, 5 July 1957, Althea Gibson becomes the first Black person to win a #Wimbledon Singles tennis trophy.

Blogpost by Moira from 2019:
https://illustratedwomeninhistory.com/althea-gibson/

Newsreel: https://youtu.be/2EJCqBsh2Dk?t=1m15s

Listen to her being interviewed here (dead bird link)
https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1412427791396659204

#BlackHistory #TennisHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Althea Gibson holding the rosewater bowl and a bouquet of flowers. She's looking thrilled.

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#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1786, Caroline Herschel discovers comet C/1786 P1, becoming one of the first women to find one (and have it named after her). Her brother was appointed court astronomer to King George III. When Caroline took a government salary for helping him she became the first woman to be paid for her astronomical work.

This week, 2025, Prof Michele Dougherty became the first woman to be Astronomer Royal.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

engraved illustration of Catherine Herschel. She is an older white woman in a most excellent bonnet. She is giving the engraver the side eye.

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#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, in front of a radio telescope. she is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a sensible duffle coat given how cold it must have been out there.

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 2010s. She is a white woman with dark grey hair.

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“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Mugshot of Rosa Parks after her arrest. She is a black woman with glasses.

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Hey - bei Mastodon gibt es auch Starterpacks!! Ich habe mal eines für #Geschichte und #histodons gemacht. Bitte hier entlang =>https://fedidevs.com/s/Mjc2/ Wer #neuhier ist, sich für Geschichte interessiert und interessante Inhalte sucht, kann sich da mal umsehen. Und wer selbst eines machen möchte, findet hier die Website => fedidevs.com/starter-packs/ Bitte melden, wer aufgenommen werden möchte!

Screenshot der Website des Starterpack. Aufschrift: History! und Knopf: Alle 58 Konten folgen

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It's ALIVE!

#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.

#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

painting of Mary Shelley by Rothwell. It shows a white woman with sloping shoulders, dark hair and gold glasses

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#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Jeanette Rankin standing in front of the dome of the US Capitol on a windy day. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 16 Jan 1970, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement.

In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Black and white photo of Dilma Rousseff at her military court hearing. The judges in the background are hiding their faces with their hands.

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#OnThisDay, 26 Dec 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie announced their discovery of radium.

In 1903, Marie, Pierre and Henri Becquerel received the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on radiation. Marie was the first woman to receive the award.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

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posed photograph of Marie Curie in her lab holding a volumetric flask. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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