BlueScholarian
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What's the opposite of Jean de Brissac la Motte?
Alessa Giampaolo KeenerI live in a pretty conservative pocket outside of Baltimore with a lot of closeted MAGAs, so I deliberately chose my words to describe my research interests.
Karen: I never knew Africans had pre-TST political relations with anyone.
Spouse: Ohh, tell the story about Lourenço da Silva Mendouça, from Kongo, and how he sued the papal court.
Karen (getting mildly animated): Wow, they never teach this stuff in school.
So then, /2
I take my spouse to aquatherapy. While we're there she'll ask me about some new #AfricanHistory story that I've picked up in my studies. Today, I told her about the work of an #ArtHistorian who discussed the 12thC trade link between West Africa and France. A random woman in the pool started asking curious questions, so I told her my personal interest is in learning more about international diplomatic relations that Medieval Africans had with European and Asian countries. For context, 1/2
AmbassadorScam Alert!
If you receive an email or response on Mastodon like the following, DO NOT click the link. It is a scam fishing for login details at the very least.
"Mastodon has detected botting malware on your PC that is congesting the Mastodon network. All affected accounts will be suspended within 24 hours unless removed. _https://REDACTEDLINK"
Mike Masnick ✅I've seen a few folks join Mastodon and complain that it's too difficult to follow people on other servers, with the cutting and pasting and whatnot. But @bramus has now created a neat Chrome extension (or bookmarklet, if you prefer to go that route) that let's you avoid all that hassle.
I just tested it out... by following @bramus with it!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-view-profile-on/limifnkopacddgpihodacjeckfkpbfoe
Realized today that one of the sourcebooks for the #Napoleonic era I grew up using literally doesn't mention Radetzky. #MilHist
It occurs to me that a substantial portion of #tactics since the advent of gunpowder boils down to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr-xcya7eR0
Shoot Him In The Back
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zmuH0ffMpCNOEjsReMk5iiqGwiUvhO2TtrM8QKu98SE/edit#gid=844879137 - spreadsheet of #historians moving to Mastodon. Most seem to be moving to general purpose instances as there's no #history focused instance (that I can find). Most popular three servers are:
mastodon.online 51
mastodon.social 246
mstdn.social 91
mastodon.online 51
mastodon.social 246
mstdn.social 91
Histodons
Form Responses 1 History Scholars, Teachers, and Graduate Students on Mastodon This is a list of self-submitted information about historians on the social network Mastodon, created to help us find eachother on a growing social network. To add yourself to this list:,<a href="https://docs.google.c...
A day late, but this is a reminder that the bomber will not always get through. 90 years (and one day) ago, Stanley Baldwin gave a speech stating "the bomber will always get through" in the UK. Not ten years later RAF Fighter Command disproved this during the Battle of Britain (through the "Dowding System" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowding_system). New technology necessitates new command and control techniques. #milHist #airPower
