Fascism treats women as mere breeders. "Children, kitchen, and church" was the Nazi slogan for women.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
history
50 years ago
The Runaways' pose for a portrait on the beach in April, 1976 in Los Angeles, California.
Photo rights by Michael Ochs
#punk #punks #punkrock #womanofpunk #therunaways #history #punkrockhistory
The Controversial Story of Olympias, Alexander the Great’s Powerful Mother
Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great, stands out as one of the few women in Hellenistic politics.
by Neil Middleton (from the archives)
https://www.thecollector.com/olympias-mother-alexander-the-great/
Greek history at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=greek+history
"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."
#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.
As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
If you want to enter ancient Rome through a book that feels vivid, intelligent, and surprisingly dramatic, The History of Rome is a great choice.
It is more than history: it is a story of power, ambition, political struggle, and the making of a civilization.
This monumental work helped Theodor Mommsen win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, becoming the second laureate in the prize’s history.
#books #bookstodon #history #nonfiction #rome #nobelprize
@bookstodon
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I just created my first collection on history. Which historians or other history-related accounts in the fediverse am I missing?
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"A new program unites West Coast readers for stories of Japanese American incarceration"
www.opb.org/article/2026/04/11/one-book-one-coast-japanese-american-incarceration/
"Libraries across Washington, Oregon and California have selected George Takei’s (@georgetakei ) graphic memoir 'They Called Us Enemy' for the 'One Book, One Coast' program."
I've read this book - highly recommended! 😁
#Book #Books #Bookstodon #Libraries #AsianAmerican #History #AAPI
"Something that's struck me about the Trump Administration throughout its second term is its profound misunderstanding of power. Over and over again, Trump and his minions demonstrate that they think they have a monopoly on power and that history will unfold as their actions without any reactions, a literally inconsequential view as in 'there will no consequences other than the ones we impose.'"
~ Rebecca Solnit
#art #history: when asked, in 1970, by australian journalist, richard carleton, why the PFLP didn't engage in negotiations with the israeli state, ghassan kanafani (esteemed author & a leading figure of palestine's marxist resistance) explained that to do so would be 'a kind of conversation between the sword & the neck'. ghassan *should have* celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday, but he was assassinated by mossad in 1972.
#ghassanKanafani #literature #palestine #gaza #resistance
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It's perfectly acceptable to not automatically accept everything we're told to be truth.
In fact, life and its circumstances become unacceptable when we don't.
Chief Joseph the Younger art print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/chief-joseph-the-younger-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #history #thought #motivation #drawing #portrait #fedigiftshop #artoftheday
Historical Figures Who Lived at the Same Time (But Feel Like They Didn’t)
These surprising overlaps between famous figures make history feel closer—and more out of order—than you’d expect.
BY Nitya Rao
https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/misconceptions/historical-figures-alive-same-time?utm_source=RSS
This is still my favourite personal hackery/security story, and the only one I have ever written about where I am on the naughty-side of the desk.
Different times!
https://artofsecurity.com/2011/humble
#Security #InfoSec #Hacking #DEC #VAX #VMS #Teletype #Blog #History #UniversityofLeicester #FoiledAgain
#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.
She's never captured.
She died in 2023, in New Zealand.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
6 Inspirational Women Who Redefined Art History
Patrons, muses, and artists—take a look at six inspirational women in the history of art.
by Anastasiia Kirpalov
https://www.thecollector.com/inspirational-women-redefined-art-history/
Art history at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/5621
Lovely Peeps! Your cool #history for the day! 🚀
(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words & I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)
If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊
"Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.
But nobody’s talking about the #Deaf men who made it possible.
In the late 1950s, #NASA had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick.
So they came to #Gallaudet.
Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.
NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.
Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space.
No #Gallaudet_Eleven — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II.
Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth & came home safely.
They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of.
Now you know!"
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Going to Venice this summer?
Interested in history?
Book a tour with me, and I'll talk you ears off.
🕊️ Imagine a world without war, where the machines and structures of destruction fall silent.
Warplanes grounded and swallowed by vegetation, tanks seized in place. The waves reclaim coastal fortresses left behind. Bunkers forgotten below city streets. Propaganda fades and loses meaning
Some of my photos of #AbandonedPlaces in Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and England.
#Abandoned #History #War #History #Photography #Military #War #Decay #Bunker #Tank #Plane #Airplane #Fortress
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When you stay where the crowd is, you see what the crowd sees, hear what the crowd hears, and are very much at risk of believing what the crowd believes.
Why not step away, and see things from a different perspective?
The Venice the Crowds Do Not See canvas print -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-venice-the-crowds-do-not-see-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #venice #italy #europe #travel #explore #village #town #vacation #canal #architecture #buildings #history #fedigiftshop #firstfridayArtWalk
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„Getötet, weil sie Frauen waren“
Do., 07.05.2026, 19 Uhr
Werkstattgespräch mit der
Historikerin Frauke Steinhäuser:
@FraukeSt berichtet über ihre Recherche zu den vier Frauen, die von Fritz Honka in den frühen 1970er-Jahren ermordet wurden, und stellt ihre Biografien vor. Außerdem geht sie auf die problematische mediale Rezeption der Fälle ein.
Veranstaltungsort:
St. Pauli-Archiv, Paul-Roosen-Straße 30, Eintritt frei!
#hamburg #stpauli #geschichte #frauengeschichte #history
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King Dan & the King’s man: Daniel O’Connell & Sir Walter Scott
Dan Mulhall compares 2 towering 19th-century figures: Ireland’s Daniel O’Connell & Scotland’s Sir Walter Scott. But where Scott helped preserve & define Scottish identity through history, literature & tradition, O’Connell was above all a practical political reformer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J94G6Utlek
#Scottish #Irish #history #literature #19thcentury #DanielOCOnnell #SirWalterScott
When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence
Michael Auslin on the Final Battle to Control the Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence at PG (our first ebook, published in December 1, 1971):
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1
#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research identifying cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons
Wistman's Woods, on Dartmoor, Devon, are allegedly haunted by hellhounds. 'Wistman' is a dialect word for the Devil, with 'wist' meaning 'eerie' or 'uncanny'. The woods and their legends are said to have inspired the Sherlock Holmes mystery 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'. The woods are one of Britain's few surviving patches of ancient temperate rainforest. #FairytaleTuesday #folklore #gothic #literature #weird #ghosts #paranormal #books #history #mythology
“Have ye come far?”
“Only from America.”
#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.
She lands unexpectedly in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: https://joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/
Watch newsreel of her taking off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory @histodons #Histodons
