history
Okay so I feel like mastodon.social is a little too general for me. I feel like I want more of a safe space for #neurodivergent folks, and folks who want to #decolonize their minds. Genuine #BIPOC allies. #culture enthusiasts. #history geeks. Like #nature and #geology. #witchy but the ancestral folk wisdom, grandma kind.
...too general still? But too specific for general. 😤
#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
American writer, historian and poet Elizabeth Fries Ellet died #OTD in 1877.
She is best known for her works on women’s contributions to American history, particularly during the American Revolutionary War. Her extensive research and writings helped to highlight the often overlooked roles that women played in significant historical events.
Books by Elizabeth F. Ellet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45321
I’m currently reading “Born: A History of Childbirth ” by Lucy Inglis and thought you all might find this amusing.
There is a section in the book that talks about how some ancient Egyptian physicans believed that migraines were caused by wandering wombs.
The treatment: rub oil on the patient and blow incense smoke at her to encourage her womb to move back into proper position. 😂
As the East Wing of the White House gets demolished, writer E.B. Boyd reflects on how it erases women's history. The East Wing holds the office of the first lady.
"Here, Lady Bird Johnson launched her highway beautification program & Michelle Obama worked to fight childhood obesity and help military families. It was from the East Wing that Pat Nixon helped to open China & Laura Bush directed a global fight against HIV & AIDS"
https://www.thepersistent.com/white-house-east-wing-demolition-ballroom-first-ladies/
#OnThisDay, 11 Jun 1987, Diane Abbott is elected to the British Parliament. She is the first Black woman to become an MP.
Abbott has held shadow cabinet posts in the Labour party, and is the longest serving Black MP. She is standing for re-election in the 2024 UK general election.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory
#Trans #woman #wins #MissMarylandUSA, making #history with a list of #pageant firsts
She’s 31. She’s #married to a #military #officer. She’s #AsianAmerican. And she’s a #trans #woman.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #BeautyPageants #RoleModels #Representation #Culture
I was thinking of @Forestofglory and a conversation we had a while back about cultural histories of the Tang. It made me remember this lesser known one.
This book is a cultural history of the city of Chang'An through the collected tales of failed examinees, women and foreigners. Also one of the books that sent me on the rabbit hole of foreigners and intercultural marriage in Tang China
@medievodons @histodons @bookstodon #China #history #bookstodon #bookrec #histodons #medieval
43 years ago
"Nazi Punks Fuck Off" is the fifth single from the Dead Kennedys, recorded in June 1981 and later released on the In God We Trust, Inc. EP
#punk #punks #punkrock #deadkennedys #nazipunksfuckoff #history #punkrockhistory
The entire #WhiteHouse #EastWing is demolished as #Trump moves forward with his #ballroom, AP photos show.
The East Wing, where #FirstLadies created #history, planned state dinners & promoted causes, is now history itself. The 2-story structure of drawing rooms & offices, including workspace for first ladies & their staffs, has been turned into rubble, demolished as part of Trump’s plan to build what he said is now a $300M ballroom nearly 2X the size of the White House.
#OnThisDay, 23 Oct 1915, 20,000+ women march in a 5 mile long parade through New York City, USA, demanding the right to vote.
There is no record of African-American women being invited to join the march.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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if people think this is NOT related to #Paramount killing off #MTV & #VH1 and deleting decades of archives from the internet, Americans need to think long and hard about what they have given up as a society by treating art, history and culture as either luxury goods to be owned by a plutocratic kakistocracy, or as charities to be nickled and dimed by a fascist kleptocracy.
Mind the gap!
#OnThisDay, 6 June 1915, Maida Vale Tube station opens in London. It is staffed by women until the end of World War 1.
#LondonHistory #TubeHistory #GoingUnderground #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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
#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 #AmericanHistory
A fascinating well-preserved control room, part of a coal power plant that closed in the 1990s. All those dials and switches!!! Somewhere in Germany.
#Abandoned #Industry #Industrial #History #Urbex #UrbanExploration #LostPlace #LostPlaces #Photo
#OnThisDay, 25 Oct 1996, the last “Magdalene laundry” in Ireland closes.
In 2013, the Irish government issued a formal state apology to the women forced to work in the homes.
Here's archive film: https://ifiplayer.ie/father-delaney-collection-magdalene-laundry/
And here's more about how the laundries operated: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/last-days-of-a-laundry-1.89388
#IrishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 25 Oct 1947, women in Malta vote for the first time. Almost 35,000 women go to the polls.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #MalteseHistory #Histodons
Were the Nazis socialist?
tl;dr: NO.
Source: Katie Charlwood, historian. hxxps://www.instagram.com/reel/DQNCB7ujb1E/
#OnThisDay, 8 Jun 1944, Violette Szabo returns to occupied France by parachute for her second posting with the British Special Operations Executive.
She is captured two days later, after a gun battle. She's tortured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. She is killed in Jan 1945. Her daughter Tania received the George Cross on her behalf in 1947.
Violette Szabo's story was filmed as Carve Her Name With Pride (1958).
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
These Were the Most Prominent Members of the Medici Family
"The Medici family and its members are well known for their patronage of the great artists of the Renaissance and their intriguing business and politics."
https://www.thecollector.com/most-prominent-members-medici-family/
Books about the Medici at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/16208
Pope Leo X with two Cardinals by Raphael
Her Intricate Paper Cuttings Outsold Rembrandts. Who Was the Dutch Master Known as ‘Scissors Minerva’?
Joanna Koerten was a super star of the Dutch Golden Age. A new museum exhibition at D.C.'s National Museum of Women in the Arts puts her back in the spotlight.
by Katie White
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/joanna-koerten-paper-cutting-nwma-dutch-women-2698104
This famous poster from the Holocaust Museum displays the early warning signs of #fascism. While still applicable, I want to make it clear that we are chest-deep in the #fascist #cesspool and have been for *years*.
Pinning this to my profile in case you know someone who still has doubts. Send them this post.
History is repeating itself once again.
#unitedstates #uspol #uspolitics #antifascism #warning #History #resistandinsist
Throughout former Yugoslavia, brightly colored kiosks began to emerge as hot dog stands, flower shops, currency exchanges, ticket booths, and more. "Kiosk: The Last Modernist Booths Across Central and Eastern Europe," features more than 150 examples photographed by David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka.
