#OnThisDay, 16 Mar 1876, Rose Harland and Nelly Saunders step into the ring at Harry Hill's bar for the first all-woman boxing match in the USA.
No illustration of Rose and Nelly, so here's a poster for the bar.
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #ThisGirlCan #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Today, March 15, in 1917, Czar Nicholas II abdicated the Russian throne, ending 300 years of Romanov rule, the last full autocracy in Europe (The Last Czars, 2019)
Today, March 15, in 44 BC, on the Ides of March, a group of Roman senators stabbed Julius Caesar to death during a meeting of the Senate in the Theatre of Pompey (Rome, 2005)
#OnThisDay, 15 Mar 1927, the inaugural women's boat race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the Isis.
In 2015, the women’s race was finally held on the same day, and over the same course, as the men’s race.
Watch silent newsreel of the 1927 race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6kqhJGOWI
More: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/03/women-making-waves-newton-womens-oxford.html
Lundi prochain au séminaire d'histoire #africaine : Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu (CNRS/CRH) et Ibrahima Seck (univ. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar), Formes de l’#oralité – Sources orales vs. oralité dans les sources (écrites).
17 mars | 16:15h | format hybride
A video on the complex cross-section of a broad flat sword blade of the post-cruciform era (the old austere rules for Latin Christian swords start to break down after 1450) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z6vwtQjM7Q #sword #histodons #medieval
Today, March 14, in 1964, Dallas, Texas nightclub owner Jack Ruby was convicted of murder with malice and sentenced to death for shooting and killing President John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald (Ruby, 1992)
Fátima Sá est l'une des coordinatrices de l'ouvrage « Langages de l’identité et de la différence dans le monde ibéro-américain (1770-1890) », « un ensemble qui apporte une contribution forte à la réflexion sur la forge des #LangagesPolitiques et leur fonction dans la construction des communautés politiques et de l’imaginaire social. » (Clément Thibaud, Préface).
There is a new story online in our 'Stories of Frisia'.
The story is about the album amicorum of Herman Pricker from Emden (1575).
Read the story about this book: https://frisia.rug.nl/en/stories/journey-of-friendship/
In our #digital #collections you can view the entire book online: https://dbc.rug.nl/digital/collection/manuscripts/id/36911
On 'Stories of Frisia', places in the northern #Netherlands and in northwest #Germany are linked to #books from the Special Collections in the University of Groningen Library.
New article published! “From Quarantine to Deglobalisation” by Tabea Scharrer, our RTG member Chinwe Beneditte Ogbonna, and Gerhild Perl is out in “Routed: Migration & (Im)mobility Magazine” (Issue 26). It explores shifting mobility under pandemic constraints. Read it here: https://t1p.de/co-article01
@unifreiburg @dfg_public @politicalscience @sociology @mehlera @histodons #migration #globalstudies #academicpublishing #histodons #sociology #politicalscience
Heute vor 50 Jahren starb die #Schauspielerin #SusanHayward in #Hollywood. 1959 hatte sie den #Oscar als beste Hauptdarstellerin für ihre Rolle in »Laßt mich leben« gewonnen. Mehr zum #Film:
Ulrike Weckel, Mit Mitteln des Spielfilms gegen die #Todesstrafe. I Want to Live! (1958), #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/muell/
Educators, thank you for everything you do to counter Holocaust Denial.
We have free resources to help you teach Holocaust Education accurately, across the curriculum (tell your colleagues!), for grades 6-12. In addition to English, History and Social Studies classes, these free lesson plans also cover English Language Arts, Film Literacy, Film History, Media Literacy, Music, Music History, Political Science, Psychology, and Visual Literacy.
https://sharemylesson.com/blog/teaching-holocaust-education-film
#NeverAgain #Holocaust #HolocaustEducation #Education #Edutooters #Homschooling #History #Histodons @education @edutooters
Heute vor 100 Jahren begann in #Hamburg ein #Hungerstreik von 75 kommunistischen Insassen der #Haftanstalt #Fuhlsbüttel - einer der Aufhänger für den Beitrag unseres Redaktionsmitglieds zum Thementeil #PolitischeGefangene:
Max Buschmann, „Freiheit oder Hungertod“. Hungerstreiks als Protestform politischer Gefangener in der frühen #WeimarerRepublik, #WerkstattGeschichte 80/2019, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-80-maximilian-buschmann/
How an unexpected observation, a 10th-century recipe and an explorer’s encounter with a cabbage thief upend what we thought we knew about collard greens’ journey to the American South. https://theconversation.com/how-an-unexpected-observation-a-10th-century-recipe-and-an-explorers-encounter-with-a-cabbage-thief-upend-what-we-know-about-collard-greens-journey-to-the-american-south-239456 @histodons #Histodons @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon
**Trade map of the West Indies and North America, 1741**
#Image attribution: Henry Overton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_new_and_correct_map_of_the_trading_part_of_the_West_Indies.png.
#Map #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Spain #Europe #NorthAmerica #WestIndies #Caribbean #Trade #C18th #18thCentury @histodon @histodons
**Uncle Sam, Teddy Bear And Trade Routes**
Title: My, my, such possibilities
Artist: Clifford K. Berryman, 1869-1949.
Created/Published: [ca. 1913].
Citation: Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, Artist. My, My, Such Possibilities., ca. 1913. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016679406/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartoon #Drawing #Map #PanamaCanal #UncleSam #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #CentralAmerica #SouthAmerica #Trade @histodon @histodons
![“Summary: Uncle Sam and Teddy bear [Theodore Roosevelt] mapping trade routes around South America.”](https://media.social.qoto.org/media_attachments/files/114/157/104/741/040/929/original/977c184e090a41dc.jpg "“Summary: Uncle Sam and Teddy bear [Theodore Roosevelt] mapping trade routes around South America.”")
**The Real Magna Carta**
_“Less famous than its 1215 predecessor, the Magna Carta of 1225 held the true power.”_
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/real-magna-carta
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #England #MagnaCarta @histodon @histodons @medievodons
**The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League**
_”The Hanseatic League united merchants to bargain with kings, blockade cities, and even win wars. But when technology changed, defections began and the coalition fell apart.”
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hanseatic-league/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Trade #Europe @histodon @histodons @medievodons
