The Supreme Court may be unpopular today, but its lowest point came in 1857. Explore this part of history in the second chapter of our America at 250 project https://t.co/zpJATsYXET ...

RT Ako მაქაცარია 🇬🇪 🇺🇦 (@Akaking_ako)Turks literally came to Anatolia in the middle ages and colonised byzantine, Georgian, Armenian territories then colonised much of the middle east and north africa, also cut through balkans up to viena, terrorising and kidnapping much of Eastern and central Europe ...

On this President's Day, a new project titled I Pursuit is askin some familiar faces to share important lessons they've learned from former presidents and first THROUGHOUT A SERIES OF ESSAYS, BARACK OBAMA WILL WRITE ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN. BILL CLINTON WILL TALK ABOUT TEDDY ROSEVELT AND CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS WILL COVER WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, ONE OF MY FAVORITE PRESIDENTS, JUST TO NAME A FEW. THE INITIATIVE KICKED OFF TODAY WITH A PIECE BY GEORGE W.BUSH ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH ABOUT GEORGE W. WASHINGTON WHERE ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Tacos are genuinely non-Spanish Mexican, except that before the Spanish only the warrior and priest elites often had meat in their tacos, and their menu choices were turkey, chihuahua, and peasant. (As special guests with different food taboos, Montezuma let Cortez and his men dine on zoo animals instead of peasant).If you think I'm kidding, research the primary sources before you screech. ...

RT Roman Helmet Guy (@romanhelmetguy)Hello “history professor here” (why do they all start their tweets with the exact same phrase?) Of course Harvard strivers don’t want to take hard classes that teach real history. They want you to just give them their A already so they can go work at McKinsey.Replacing rigorous history courses with ideological purity tests makes that easy. They don’t even need to do the readings, they know what their professors want the answers to be. And 80% of grades handed out at Harv ...

RT eburke (@JamesWHankins1)The Eastern churches that spread across Asia, into India and China were not backed by armies. Armenia converted to Christian without any known involvement of Rome. The earliest Christians in NE Africa were not converted by armies. Ireland was not converted by armies. Christianity came into Gemany a half century before Charlemagne. Much of the Baltic was converted by missionaries before military forces began to be involved. The Franciscans had a string of monasteries along the Silk ...

RT Rep. Wesley Hunt Press Office (@RepWPH)When a nation forgets its history, it risks repeating its darkest mistakes.That is why Congressman Wesley Hunt has introduced legislation to establish a 28th Amendment, requiring every member of Congress to pass a basic civics exam before taking the oath of office.Those entrusted with representing the American people should first demonstrate a clear understanding of the Constitution, our history, and the principles that built this nation.Knowledge of our founding id ...

Let's start from the very beginning. Starting from school, we learn a variety of different subjects and the way we assimilate these subjects determines how we will understand and interpret them in the future. For example, geometry.Many people think that this subject is not as necessary in life. But when you have to do house renovations for example which does not require university level mathematics you will need to count the amount of paint to use the amount of materials the sizes as well as the various def ...

Historians have long debated the exact founding date of New York. But the year itself is less important than using the occasion to reflect on its fascinating history https://t.co/BfMk3EOtQT ...

RT History Girl (@HistoryGirlBW)A quick stop to buy a newspaper. London, 1950s. https://t.co/uWtzHDuWKE ...