#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", is arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.
She is later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1944, Virginia Hall returns to Nazi-occupied France.
Previously with the British SOE, Hall returned with the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and trained 3 battalions of resistance fighters.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2 #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Say hi. This is an example of how human labor will be remembered when all books are digitized and we all work with digital copies only. And maybe, hand on heart, this hand was intentionally raised to greet us from the past. #histodons #bookhistory #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #digitization
Am Internationalen Tag gegen #Rassismus erinnern wir heute an #WerkstattGeschichte 59/2012 »sichtbar/verborgen«. Im Thementeil, hg. u.a. v. Alexandra Przyrembel, geht es um Diskurse über »Rasse« in der Moderne, mit Beiträgen von Richard Hölzl (@rhoelzl), Hubertus Büschel & Silvan Niedermeier:
https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/sichtbarverborgen
Trump's critics have compared him to King George III, but is it accurate? A scholar of early America says the 18th-century British monarchy’s power was far more limited than many realize: https://theconversation.com/tyrannical-leader-why-comparisons-between-trump-and-king-george-iii-miss-the-mark-on-18th-century-british-monarchy-251869
@histodons #Histodons
OnThisDay, March 20, in 1413, Henry V took the throne of England upon the death of his father, Henry IV (depicted in The King, 2019)
Politics, the State, and American Capitalism in the Civil War Era
Special Issue of the *Journal of the Civil War Era*
See below for the call for papers. Submission deadline for proposals: April 25.
#callforpapers #jcwe #politicaleconomy #state #capitalism #ushistory #histodons @histodons
OnThisDay, March 20, in 1937, Amelia Earhart’s plane crashed on Ford Island due to a landing gear collapse, ending her first attempt to fly around the world (depicted in Amelia, 2009)
We've opened a call for papers for the workshop "Contested Imperial Endings", seeking to encourage a comparative discussion on dissolution of several European empires, with a greater emphasis on those which unravelled in the aftermath of post-1945 European decolonization.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/contested-imperial-endings/
This paper by Arturo Zoffmann "focuses on resistance to the draft during the first recruitment drive of the National Defence Government in Greek Macedonia". This case study, allows him "to explore broader trends about the formation of the modern Balkan nation-states".
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19448953.2024.2414195
#OnThisDay, 20 Mar 1985, Libby Riddles is the first woman to win the 1,100-mile trans-Alaska #Iditarod dog sled race.
Watch a contemporary news report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P9_48VLB0I
Another major thread I've come across in Treasury correspondence is Britain's financial interest in Ceylon cinnamon. There are years in the first half of the 19th century where it feels like 10% of all letters written by the Treasury to the Colonial Office are about this one commodity (and the two departments correspond constantly). A project that's just sitting there in the archives waiting to be written.
Ludwig I of #Bavaria abdicated #OnThisDay 20.3. in 1848.
He wasn't able to choose an appropriate mistress - Lola Montez was one cause of the revolution. nEmpress Sisi of #Austria was his niece.
https://empressofhab.wordpress.com/2024/02/28/three-facts-about-ludwig-i-of-bavaria/
Classic post: a comment on Diodorus. Diodorus Siculus was as prejudiced about foreigners as the average Euro or settler a hundred years ago, but he still knew that Phoenician cities had citizen-soldiers.
https://www.bookandsword.com/2014/02/08/417/ #antiquidons #ancMedToot #histodons
On this day, March 19, in 1972, a team from the small Philadelphia Catholic women’s school Immaculata College won the first-ever women’s national college basketball championship, coached by Cathy Rush (depicted in The Mighty Macs, 2009)
À l'atelier de l’#international : Antonin Dubois (univ. Lorraine), Un internationalisme étudiant en action? Les Cosmopolitan Clubs états-uniens (1903–1914).
25 mars | 15h | format hybride
#CosmopolitanClubs #XXe #histoireétudiante #histodons @histodons
À l'atelier de l’#international : Antonin Dubois (univ. Lorraine), Un internationalisme étudiant en action? Les Cosmopolitan Clubs états-uniens (1903–1914).
25 mars | 15h | format hybride
#CosmopolitanClubs #XXe #histoireétudiante #histodons @histodons
À l'atelier de l’#international : Antonin Dubois (univ. Lorraine), Un internationalisme étudiant en action? Les Cosmopolitan Clubs états-uniens (1903–1914).
25 mars | 15h | format hybride
#CosmopolitanClubs #XXe #histoireétudiante #histodons @histodons
Découvrez des #lettres de soldats de la #Wehrmacht envoyées de 1940–1944 depuis la France occupée: « Comme un Allemand en France » (éd. par Aurélie Luneau, Jeanne Guérout & Stefan Martens en 2022) offre un regard brut & intime sur leurs sentiments, perceptions de la France & l’évolution de leur moral.
There's a new issue of Práticas da História, the Journal on Theory, Historiography, and Uses of the Past!
It includes the dossier "Collaborative practices: rethinking narratives and musealization processes", coordinated by Rita Juliana Soares Poloni, Diego Lemos Ribeiro, and Elizabete Mendonça.
Available in #OpenAccess: https://praticasdahistoria.pt/issue/view/1964
