A cute #EarlyModern#MansucriptMonday - dorsal and ventral views of a volute (Volutes sp.) adorning the upper corners of a plate of 'Valvatae' from Johs. Gessner's unpublished 'Museum' (mid-1700s, ZBZ NFF3). I love how the artist captured the translucency of the shell 💚 🌿🐡
Congratulations to Barbara J. Fields (19thC U.S. History); William Chester Jordan (medieval European history); and Franklin Knight (Latin American & Caribbean history), who are being honored with the @ahahistorians.bsky.socialwww.historians.org/perspectives...
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A historic day for Moldova! 🇲🇩 The pro-EU referendum has passed, adding an art. to the constitution that "irrevocably" commits the country to the European path. Bravo to President Maia Sandu and her team for leading the way, and to the Moldovan diaspora for their unwavering belief in the future! 👏
You think British universities are struggling now? Wait until you see student numbers plunge by a quarter after 2030...
My review of Annette Kehnel's impassioned & inspiring "The Green Ages" is out in this week's TLS. www.the-tls.co.uk/history/medi...
Many historians now feel that treating the past as a foreign country is a luxury we can no longer afford. The organizers of this year’s International
If you poured the money of just these two people into the endowments of 200 small colleges in the US you could educate 100,000 kids per year in perpetuity for free. Instead, these people are using their money to build murder robots, plagiarism machines, and rockets to Mars.
Halloween week is a monster week! Sign up below for my Harvard Zoom talk, “A Monstrous Renaissance History for our Times,” to learn how science and society have been linked through monster thinking for centuries. Weds Oct 30 at 5pm ET. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #earlymodern#histsci
So Proud!!!!!! Will be in New York to bask in glory!