In Prabowo Subianto’s reading of 20th-century Indonesia all struggles, whether for good or for ill, are honoured alike. A flattened version of history plays to the president’s advantage https://t.co/wuwkkzhkbS ...

“The dust of the bones and of everything that had been built before.”“The Intelligence” remembers Gillian Tindall, a historian who chronicled ordinary lives and ordinary places https://t.co/ET8BR51ZV4 https://t.co/bjNPziQ87t ...

Michelle Obama's book is an invitation to remember a history and a politics that Trump is trying to erase, writes @niamalikah (via @opinion) https://t.co/3fXfcxxlxB ...

Geographic Comparison - Ireland's statehood is younger than the USA's, despite a population history spanning thousands of years [1] - Ireland has had only 20% the number of presidents the USA has had [1] - Ireland has existed for only 41% of the time the USA has existed [1]

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/K50hUSGukH ...

Tutankhamun: How Englishmen uncovered the boy-king https://t.co/zIzNmhTzYU ...

Historical Perspective - The tweet suggests that all of history is a footnote to the Roman Empire, similar to how all of philosophy is a footnote to Plato [1]

history. When we hear that word, what is it that comes to our mind. Perhaps some dates, records, perhaps the names of some rulers and generals arranged neatly in an order.But did it mean the same for our ancestors. What was history for them. When they didn't have records, perhaps they imagined and when they mixed memory with myth, they created story that made sense about their past.And this talk is going to about those stories. Somewhere in the 14th century, one bright morning, Sultan Firosha Touglak stands ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@davidmarcus Which doesn't change the reality that Israel was founded quite predominantly by 20th century immigrants on the ruins and bones of the people who let them in. ...

Whatever eventually rises from the pile of rubble beside the White House’s south lawn, it will be a pastiche of pastiche—if history is anything to go by https://t.co/QXCySz0aaf ...