📜 The Wild Man of the Revolution, Samuel Adams.
I wrote an essay about Samuel Adams and why I think he was punk rock. I'm convinced he'd love the band Fugazi and that he'd sing their lyrics while tossing tea in Boston harbor.
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In late 1800s, a quiet man with a camera wandered the windswept plains of southwestern #France. His name was Félix Arnaudin, and what he captured was a way of life already fading into memory.
Among his most haunting images were the #shepherds of the Landes, perched on towering wooden stilts known as échasses. Dressed in thick wool cloaks and wide-brimmed hats, these men weren’t performers or curiosities—they were survivors of the bog. #History
#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time.
Newsreel: https://www.ina.fr/video/AFE86003075
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
An Overview of the Xia, Shang, & Zhou Chinese Dynasties
"The first three Chinese dynasties spanned almost 2,000 years, beginning with the enigmatic Xia and ending with the political turmoil of the Zhou Dynasty."
https://www.thecollector.com/xia-shang-zhou-chinese-dynasties/
"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
France and Mexico fought a war over pastries.
https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/pastry-war-france-and-mexico/
"19th-century Dutch letterpress print of various treats. The text at the top entices a peckish viewer: “Of many pastries and delicacies / This print is provided, whatever your choice. / So dear youth consider it always for your amusement, / And choose from it everything that is to your taste”." - from the Public Domain Image Archive
Joséphine Bonaparte: Empress of the French
Joséphine lived a notable life before she met Napoleon.
https://www.thecollector.com/josephine-bonaparte-empress-french/
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 at PG
Peter Salem was born into bondage in Massachusetts, a man owned, unnamed, unseen by the nation that would soon claim to fight for liberty. And yet, at Bunker Hill, in the chaos of battle, he would fire a single shot that struck down a British major—and force his name into a history that tried to forget him.
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#History #Histodons #BlackMastodon #Education #Politics
Re-enanactor. Photo by Kenneth Bohrer at American Revolution Photos..
She had a lot of time to think, and wisely used it.
And the more she pondered what she was told, the more she realized that it did not match up with reality, her life and experience.
And she had to make a choice between continuing to believe words that had no substance in reality, or trusting in herself.
Not a difficult choice, really.
Turning Point art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/turning-point-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#art #artwork #history #arizona #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #decor #woman #truth
Facts and Myths About Harriet Tubman
"Despite being a popular historical figure, the best-known details about Harriet Tubman’s life are a mixture of fact and myth."
https://www.thecollector.com/facts-and-myths-about-harriet-tubman/
Books about Harriet Tubman at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Harriet+Tubman&submit_search=Search
Very early #OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1944, Odette Wilen parachutes into France to work as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supports the French resistance.
Wireless operators were at the greatest risk of discovery, as their position could be triangulated whenever they were transmitting messages back to London.
Wilen evades capture by minutes and escapes over the Pyrenees. She lives until 2015.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
#OTD John Hanning Speke was born in 1827.
He was an English explorer who was the first to record the source of the Nile and the first European to reach what came to be known as Lake Victoria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanning_Speke
Books by John Hanning Speke at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1151
Egypt and Nubia, Volume II: Island of Philae, on the Nile, Nubia
by Louis Haghe
📍天津博物館 Tianjin Museum
P1: 天津人文的由來 The Origination of Tianjin Culture
P2~P6: 耀世奇珍——館藏文物精品陳列 Selected Rare Relics
P7~P9: 同鑄山河——北朝歷史文物主題展 FORGING A SHARED LAND: Historical Artifacts of the Northern Dynasties
P10: 髹漆煥彩——天津博物館藏漆器文物展 CHROMATIC SPLENDOURS OF LACQUER ART: The Historic Lacquerwares Collected by Tianjin Museum
P11~P12: 乙巳華章——蛇年生肖文物與藝術精品展 Year of the Snake Zodiac Cultural Relics and Art Masterpieces Exhibition
P13~P16: 沽上風物——天津民間工藝展 Scenery Along the Rivers: Folk Arts and Crafts of Tianjin
#museum #travel #photography #photo #trip #tianjin #tientsin #china #chinese #history #art #博物館 #旅行 #旅遊 #旅游 #攝影 #照片 #撮影 #摄影 #写真 #博物馆 #天津 #中國 #中国 #中華 #大陸 #內地 #歷史 #藝術 #艺术 #芸術
'jazz is a good barometer of freedom.'
#art #history: as a kid, i pilfered records from my siblings & parents. none of them really captivated me, though, the way this gentle soul did - & he's been in my life ever since.
edward kennedy ellington - the duke, himself - was born on 29th april, 1899 &, damn, did he leave a tonne of magic for us. [thread]
#dukeEllington #jazz #music #musique #illustration #sketch
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On the Oregon Trail, Hardship Piled on Hardship—Yet Brave Travelers Kept Going
https://www.historynet.com/what-was-it-like-on-the-oregon-trail/?utm_source=feedingcuriosity.com
Books about the Oregon Trail at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=oregon+trail&submit_search=Search
#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1985, Danuta Danielsson hits a neo-Nazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. Yes, that photo by Hans Runesson.
Danuta had been born in Poland in 1947, after her Jewish mother had survived a concentration camp.
#EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Beatrix Potter is best remembered for her charming tales of Peter Rabbit, but did you know she also studied #science?
Potter collected & examined beetles, butterflies, plants, bird eggs, shells, rocks, fossils & especially fungi. She conducted experiments & wrote a scientific paper with her own illustrations, presented at the Linnean Society of London. However, as a woman in the Victorian era, she couldn’t even attend the meeting.#history #art #books
Everything maga hates, in one convenient place...
#CivilRights #HumanRights #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomOfReligion #SeparationOfChurchAndState #LGBTQ #Abortion #Contraception #Capitalism #Racism #WhiteNationalism #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism #ClimateCrisis #Immigration #Healthcare #WomensRights #Science #History
Australian Iron Man: Ned Kelly’s Final Standoff
He is called Iron Man for a good reason.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2025/01/australian-iron-man-ned-kellys-final.html
Book about Ned Kelly at PG
#OnThisDay, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 independent student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the USA.
Baker was a civil rights activist for five decades, and advocated grassroots activism. She also criticised the misogyny she encountered within the movement.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
How Dreams of Buried Pirate Treasure Enticed Americans to Flock to Florida During the Roaring Twenties
by Greg Daugherty
One of the people involved was the newsman Ben Hecht.
Ben Hecht at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2616
Boom Time Miami: Downtown by Gleason Waite Romer (1925)
Vikings on the Silk Roads
The Norse ravaged much of Europe for centuries. They were also cosmopolitan traders who followed trade winds into the Far East
by Neil Price
When War Became Sport: The History of the Mesoamerican Ballgame
Happy birthday to Dr. Cecilia Payne! Her 1925 PhD thesis has been described as “the most brilliant ever written in astronomy.”
At a time when few women entered academia, Payne discovered what the universe is made of. Her work began a revolution in astrophysics & more should know her name. #science #history
We have a first in American history.
#trump and his administration have been found in contempt of court, opening a door for criminal prosecution against Trump, and anyone involved in the #crime of kidnapping #kilmarabregogarcia and then refusing to facilitate his return.
It's a constitutional crisis and it will be an interesting point in #history to witness.
Our president is literally a criminal. He was before he was elected.