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Trump isn’t happy with how the Smithsonian Institution and other U.S. museums are portraying history, and says “Museums in our Nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn.”

This historian agrees – but says doing so means not dismantling history, but instead “complicating the story – in all its messy glory.” theconversation.com/with-its-e #USPolitics #Histodons @histodons

The ConversationWith its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history warsMost recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its darker chapters.

🎧 Arturo Zoffmann foi convidado, com Ana Santos Pinto, para o segundo episódio do podcast NOVA Talks (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa).

O tema da conversa foi a #democracia na #Europa: a partir do paralelismo possível com a Europa de há cem anos, o investigador do IHC e a professora da NOVA FCSH analisaram o estado actual da democracia.

👉 open.spotify.com/episode/40LAm

US census data 1850-1910 show the deaf population invested less in observable educational & physical human capital altho lifecycle differences complicate the comparison of school attendance & employment rates. New from @zachary_bartsch & Emily Henderson in Social Science History!
doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2025.6
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #deaf

Cambridge CoreHuman capital of the US deaf population from 1850 to 1910 | Social Science History | Cambridge CoreHuman capital of the US deaf population from 1850 to 1910
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@historikerinnen @histodons @earlymodern

#emdiplomats were not bound by their nationalities, quite the opposite, it was normal for them to serve foreign sovereigns with exception of the papal diplomatic service which mostly relied on Italians.
Moving between courts fostered desirable networks between the #emdiplomats & their colleagues but as the members of the courts. Although the comparatively low loyalty of the #emdiplomats hampered community building with the latter as Externbrink and Ferber emphasise. (6/10)

3 colleagues on the role of Mark Carney's father in residential and day schooling in Canada. The upshot is that we know little about his time as principal of the Joseph Burr Tyrrell School, but we do know that he engaged in some forms of denialism in his later scholarly career.

Sean Carleton, Crystal Gail Fraser, Jackson Pind, "Twisted Truth: Understanding Robert Carney’s Legacy and Confronting the Dangers of Denialism"

activehistory.ca/blog/2025/04/

Head shot of Robert Carney wearing a suit and glasses.
Active History · Twisted Truth: Understanding Robert Carney’s Legacy and Confronting the Dangers of DenialismOverall, we believe that Canadians can, and should, scrutinize Robert Carney’s past views on schooling for Indigenous Peoples, press Mark Carney to clarify his commitment to truth and reconciliatio…

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Transkribieren – ein mühsames Einzelkämpfer*innen-Dasein? Nicht, wenn es nach Yvonne Fuchs und Dominic Weber geht. Im Interview erzählen die beiden Gründer*innen der Plattform transcriptiones, wie aus einer frustrierenden Erfahrung im Studium ein innovatives Community-Projekt mit internationalem Anspruch wurde =>hier geht's zum Interview: dhdhi.hypotheses.org/11445 #transkription #histodons #transkribieren #quellen

Digital Humanities am DHIPTranskribieren, teilen, vernetzen: Die Plattform transcriptiones im PorträtDokumente aus dem Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt, Spital A 1 Allgemeines und Einzelnes (14. Jh. – 1937).

🎞 O IHC colabora na organização do ciclo "Sombras: Histórias de colonialismo, solidariedade e libertação", integrado na #FestaDoCinemaItaliano.

Destacamos a sessão do dia 13 de Abril no Cinema São Jorge: "Antifascismo e anticolonialismo – solidariedade democrática e intercâmbios revolucionários entre a Itália e Portugal" — uma conversa em torno de livros e filmes, com curadoria de Giulia Strippoli.

ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/sombras