Remains fascinating every time we get an #AHAPerspectives pitch on something I didn't know existed. Today's #EverythingHasAHistory article: Robert Antony on rock fights.
Rock Fights – AHA
In the Canton Delta of China, ritualized rock fights continued well into the 20th century.
www.historians.org
October 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Remains fascinating every time we get an #AHAPerspectives pitch on something I didn't know existed. Today's #EverythingHasAHistory article: Robert Antony on rock fights.
#EverythingHasAHistory, even rock fights!
In #AHAPerspectives, Robert Antony explores the history of ritualized rock fights in China's Canton Delta, a custom that persisted well into the 20th century.
In #AHAPerspectives, Robert Antony explores the history of ritualized rock fights in China's Canton Delta, a custom that persisted well into the 20th century.
Rock Fights – AHA
In the Canton Delta of China, ritualized rock fights continued well into the 20th century.
www.historians.org
October 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
#EverythingHasAHistory, even rock fights!
In #AHAPerspectives, Robert Antony explores the history of ritualized rock fights in China's Canton Delta, a custom that persisted well into the 20th century.
In #AHAPerspectives, Robert Antony explores the history of ritualized rock fights in China's Canton Delta, a custom that persisted well into the 20th century.
I’m teaching A Midwife’s Tale this month and I love both that the diary is available online and that the website is still in its original 2000 format. (It was a Yahoo! Pick of the week for May 1, 2000!) #EverythingHasAHistory @rrchnm.bsky.social dohistory.org
DoHistory Home
A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard.
dohistory.org
October 9, 2026 at 12:21 PM
I’m teaching A Midwife’s Tale this month and I love both that the diary is available online and that the website is still in its original 2000 format. (It was a Yahoo! Pick of the week for May 1, 2000!) #EverythingHasAHistory @rrchnm.bsky.social dohistory.org
Want to let everyone know that #EverythingHasAHistory?
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July 31, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Want to let everyone know that #EverythingHasAHistory?
Check out the AHA's stickers—also available in multipacks!
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#hustleculture has a history #everythinghasahistory
June 22, 2026 at 8:01 PM
#hustleculture has a history #everythinghasahistory
On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All
Arnoud S. Q. Visser
newbooksnetwork.com/on-pedantry #pedantry #everythinghasahistory
Arnoud S. Q. Visser
newbooksnetwork.com/on-pedantry #pedantry #everythinghasahistory
Arnoud S. Q. Visser, "On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All" (Princeton UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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April 13, 2026 at 11:16 PM
On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All
Arnoud S. Q. Visser
newbooksnetwork.com/on-pedantry #pedantry #everythinghasahistory
Arnoud S. Q. Visser
newbooksnetwork.com/on-pedantry #pedantry #everythinghasahistory
Some context for #Turkey coup: https://books.google.de/books?id=K4cAAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=Turkey+military+coup&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Turkey%20military%20coup&f=false #history #everythinghasahistory
The Army and the Radical Left in Turkey
In 1960s Turkey, the armed forces and the radical leftist...
books.google.de
November 19, 2024 at 7:31 AM
The idea of facts, too, like #everythinghasahistory A Brief History of Facts | History Today <a href="http://crwd.fr/2n7BYDC" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://crwd.fr/2n7BYDC
A Brief History of Facts | History Today
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November 19, 2024 at 5:57 AM
The idea of facts, too, like #everythinghasahistory A Brief History of Facts | History Today <a href="http://crwd.fr/2n7BYDC" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://crwd.fr/2n7BYDC
Everything, really, #everythinghasahistory! "How Comic Sans became the world’s most hated font" https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/01/23/guy-thank-blame-comic-sans/#.tnw_4JlLLHY7
How Comic Sans became the world’s most hated font
A new short from CNN-backed video network Great Big Story...
thenextweb.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Everything, really, #everythinghasahistory! "How Comic Sans became the world’s most hated font" https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/01/23/guy-thank-blame-comic-sans/#.tnw_4JlLLHY7
Ah, #Watergate… such a simple, innocent era… #everythinghasahistory
November 19, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Ah, #Watergate… such a simple, innocent era… #everythinghasahistory
Today in #everythinghasahistory: 280 characters on @Twitter. In 1984, European telco engineers propose a future short message standard for mobile networks based on bandwidth limitations and the insight that most average everyday sentences use fewer than 160 characters. 1/4
November 18, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Today in #everythinghasahistory: 280 characters on @Twitter. In 1984, European telco engineers propose a future short message standard for mobile networks based on bandwidth limitations and the insight that most average everyday sentences use fewer than 160 characters. 1/4
"We dare defend our rights" is also an expressly white supremacist motto in favor of "states' rights" picked to replace "Here We Rest" which was seen as negatively connoted with Reconstruction. #everythinghasahistory #whitesupremacy #RoyMoore...
November 18, 2024 at 11:41 PM
"We dare defend our rights" is also an expressly white supremacist motto in favor of "states' rights" picked to replace "Here We Rest" which was seen as negatively connoted with Reconstruction. #everythinghasahistory #whitesupremacy #RoyMoore...
Because #everythinghasahistory:
What the Second Amendment really meant to the Founders
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What the Second Amendment really meant to the Founders
<a href="http://wapo.st/2ogMGu5" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://wapo.st/2ogMGu5
November 18, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Because #everythinghasahistory:
What the Second Amendment really meant to the Founders
<a href="http://wapo.st/2ogMGu5" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://wapo.st/2ogMGu5
What the Second Amendment really meant to the Founders
<a href="http://wapo.st/2ogMGu5" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://wapo.st/2ogMGu5
Cool! #everythinghasahistory, including campaign posters. (WP: Ocasio-Cortez scored a victory — for well-designed campaign posters). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/06/28/ocasio-cortez-scored-a-victory-for-well-designed-campaign-posters/
November 18, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Cool! #everythinghasahistory, including campaign posters. (WP: Ocasio-Cortez scored a victory — for well-designed campaign posters). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/06/28/ocasio-cortez-scored-a-victory-for-well-designed-campaign-posters/
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Jon, Jill Lepore and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social discuss the many ways Trump has learned to entrench his power and how we may be able to fight back. An all-new The Weekly Show is out now!
June 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Historian Clare Wright wins the 2025 Australian Political Book of the Year Award for ‘Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions’! 👏👏👏
#politicalhistory #everythinghasahistory #twitterstorians #archives
#politicalhistory #everythinghasahistory #twitterstorians #archives
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Historian Clare Wright wins the 2025 Australian Political Book of the Year Award for ‘Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions’! 👏👏👏
#politicalhistory #everythinghasahistory #twitterstorians #archives
#politicalhistory #everythinghasahistory #twitterstorians #archives
October 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Journos finally catching up with a trajectory evident to historians since 2015. Better late than never, I guess.
Parents, whatever else they study, encourage your kids to enrol in history units too - while history units still exist.
www.afr.com/world/north-...
#everythinghasahistory #trumperica
Parents, whatever else they study, encourage your kids to enrol in history units too - while history units still exist.
www.afr.com/world/north-...
#everythinghasahistory #trumperica
February 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Journos finally catching up with a trajectory evident to historians since 2015. Better late than never, I guess.
Parents, whatever else they study, encourage your kids to enrol in history units too - while history units still exist.
www.afr.com/world/north-...
#everythinghasahistory #trumperica
Parents, whatever else they study, encourage your kids to enrol in history units too - while history units still exist.
www.afr.com/world/north-...
#everythinghasahistory #trumperica
RIP Carlo Ginzburg. The Cheese and the Worms is a landmark in establishing the methodology of microhistory, and one of the few works assigned and read across geographical and chronological fields of the profession. #EverythingHasAHistory
Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
RIP Carlo Ginzburg. The Cheese and the Worms is a landmark in establishing the methodology of microhistory, and one of the few works assigned and read across geographical and chronological fields of the profession. #EverythingHasAHistory
Irony abounds the past two weeks. Right there on the list is the U.S. Army canceling its celebrations of Juneteenth, as Kevin Levin explains. #EverythingHasAHistory #Juneteenth open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The U.S. Army Helped to Make the Celebration of Juneteenth Possible. So Why Has It Been Canceled?
On Tuesday Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the Defense Department’s Intelligence Agency to pause its recognition of a long list of cultural or historical annual events in response to Preside...
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January 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Irony abounds the past two weeks. Right there on the list is the U.S. Army canceling its celebrations of Juneteenth, as Kevin Levin explains. #EverythingHasAHistory #Juneteenth open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The campus newspaper ran an excellent piece based on a student survey about #Election2024. I very much appreciate that they talked with me (among others) about, in my case, how history informs our thinking. #FramState #EverythingHasAHistory #histodons www.fsugatepost.com/post/survey-...
Survey finds majority of students are voting for Kamala Harris
By Izayah Morgan
Editorial Staff
By Sophia Oppedisano
Editorial Staff
By Antonio Machado
Staff Writer[ Editor's Note: This article references data on Page 6 multiple times. This graphic can be fou...
www.fsugatepost.com
November 4, 2024 at 1:24 PM
The campus newspaper ran an excellent piece based on a student survey about #Election2024. I very much appreciate that they talked with me (among others) about, in my case, how history informs our thinking. #FramState #EverythingHasAHistory #histodons www.fsugatepost.com/post/survey-...
We’re talking again about the role of the Electoral College in selecting the President. To learn more, I recommend our episode of Ben Franklin’s World with Alexander Keyssar and @frankcogliano.bsky.social. #Election2024 #EverythingHasAHistory #VastEarlyAmerica benfranklinsworld.com/episode-287-...
Episode 287: Elections in Early America: Presidential Elections & the Electoral College
Join historians Alexander Keyssar and Frank Cogliano for an investigation of the electoral college and the Election of 1800.
benfranklinsworld.com
November 3, 2024 at 1:27 PM
We’re talking again about the role of the Electoral College in selecting the President. To learn more, I recommend our episode of Ben Franklin’s World with Alexander Keyssar and @frankcogliano.bsky.social. #Election2024 #EverythingHasAHistory #VastEarlyAmerica benfranklinsworld.com/episode-287-...