Anything that makes history so alluring that students will voluntarily sink hundreds of hours into “is a huge positive” for the field, says one expert. How are games changing how people view the past? https://t.co/EsZ9yYfvZd ...

Anything that makes history so alluring that students will voluntarily sink hundreds of hours into “is a huge positive” for the field, says one expert. How are games changing how people view the past? https://t.co/Rjvs5BYHwC ...

RT Iosif Lazaridis (@iosif_lazaridis)Xenophon, the son of Gryllus, an Athenian, addresses the Ten Thousand. Babylonia, Oct. 401 BCοὐδένα γὰρ ἄνθρωπον δεσπότην ἀλλὰ τοὺς θεοὺς προσκυνεῖτε. τοιούτων μέν ἐστε προγόνων"For you pay obeisance to no human ruler but only to the gods. You are of such ancestors." https://t.co/sEsWvQBBJ1 ...

Anything that makes history so alluring that students will voluntarily sink hundreds of hours into “is a huge positive” for the field, says one expert. How are games changing how people view the past? https://t.co/BDF1UIeBlh ...

Reading about history is an entirely passive experience. Play a game, and you have to get your hands dirty. People learn things while they are having fun, too https://t.co/PxzwdkX3TN ...

Worth listening to the whole History 102 series https://t.co/N68Xe4I9Rh ...

It is Willy Lee Gateing. >> Thank you. >> So, uh, Miss Gate, we're going to, um, chat about your journey.>> All right. So, I think to kind of kick things off, let's see. Where were you.Where where's your hometown. >> Your hometown. I was born in Cameron, Texas.February 15th, 1930. And I also went to schooling in Cameron. I only stayed in Cameron, Texas until I was about 10 years old, but I would like to mention that I went to a school.Well, I was not old enough to go to school at first. And so I went uh a l ...

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/HhFKNne67q ...

Good afternoon. Why does some parts of the past live on while others disappear. How do cities decide which buildings to preserve and which to tear down or which people to include in a history textbook and which to omit.These are not random events. Even a house accidentally destroyed in a fire can be rebuilt exactly as it was or in a totally new fashion. Similarly, someone, some volunteer or curator decides which objects will be put on display in a museum and what the labels about them will say.These decisio ...

In this compelling TEDx talk, heritage enthusiast Saad Zahid takes us on an eye-opening journey through Pakistan’s hidden timelines—beyond 1947. From the 9,000-year-old city of Mehrgarh in Balochistan to the urban brilliance of the Indus Valley Civilization, from Gandhara's Buddhist marvels to Mughal grandeur, Saad reveals how this land has been a cradle of civilizations for millennia. Layer by layer, he walks us through centuries of architecture, spirituality, and multicultural heritage—across Sindh, Punja ...