historiographers hail the dawn of what they're calling "The Kojima Era" of human history
no questions here
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December 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
historiographers hail the dawn of what they're calling "The Kojima Era" of human history
generally disproven by historiographers nowadays despite persistence as cultural myth; Nazism was considerably prevalent across all branches, and things like the "clean Wehrmacht" myth are just that-myths used either out of cynical convenience, desperate asscovering cowardice, or simply not knowing.
July 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
generally disproven by historiographers nowadays despite persistence as cultural myth; Nazism was considerably prevalent across all branches, and things like the "clean Wehrmacht" myth are just that-myths used either out of cynical convenience, desperate asscovering cowardice, or simply not knowing.
arxiv giving temp bans for clearly unreviewed LLM generated text is good and also, simultaneously, citation culture is stupid.
the genaology/provenance of ideas is interesting to historiographers and nobody else. why is everyone else spending 20-30% of its time doing historiographers work for them.
the genaology/provenance of ideas is interesting to historiographers and nobody else. why is everyone else spending 20-30% of its time doing historiographers work for them.
May 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
arxiv giving temp bans for clearly unreviewed LLM generated text is good and also, simultaneously, citation culture is stupid.
the genaology/provenance of ideas is interesting to historiographers and nobody else. why is everyone else spending 20-30% of its time doing historiographers work for them.
the genaology/provenance of ideas is interesting to historiographers and nobody else. why is everyone else spending 20-30% of its time doing historiographers work for them.
It's gonna be really cool in like 1000 years when historiographers are writing books about the 2020s called like, "Nothing Ever Happens: Daily Life Amid the End of a Republic"
December 2, 2024 at 2:21 AM
It's gonna be really cool in like 1000 years when historiographers are writing books about the 2020s called like, "Nothing Ever Happens: Daily Life Amid the End of a Republic"
film historiographers eagerly waiting the announcement that woody allen was also an FBI informant
September 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
film historiographers eagerly waiting the announcement that woody allen was also an FBI informant
In a panel about AO3 and **already** having to correct the historiographers about the founding of the site jfc.
February 4, 2024 at 5:55 PM
In a panel about AO3 and **already** having to correct the historiographers about the founding of the site jfc.
1. As a dynasty, they didn't represent some revolutionary watershed moment in history (despite their historiographers claiming otherwise). Like the Merovingians before them, they were mostly just 'Franks' and there was more continuity than most people care to admit.
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What do you wish more people knew about the Carolingians?
November 6, 2024 at 11:37 AM
1. As a dynasty, they didn't represent some revolutionary watershed moment in history (despite their historiographers claiming otherwise). Like the Merovingians before them, they were mostly just 'Franks' and there was more continuity than most people care to admit.
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I think the historiographers must have been Gondorian because it really only makes sense from a Gondorian point of view.
September 3, 2024 at 9:41 PM
I think the historiographers must have been Gondorian because it really only makes sense from a Gondorian point of view.
This.
It's not that "winners write history", It's just that "historiographers are winners (at steering the discourse)".
It's not that "winners write history", It's just that "historiographers are winners (at steering the discourse)".
A friend reminded me today about how misunderstood & unhelpful the idea of history being written by the winners actually is. Not only does it provide an excuse for cherry-picking & for discarding evidence one does not like, it is also not always true.
November 5, 2023 at 1:49 PM
This.
It's not that "winners write history", It's just that "historiographers are winners (at steering the discourse)".
It's not that "winners write history", It's just that "historiographers are winners (at steering the discourse)".
5 JULY 1776, PHILADELPHIA: “In Times as turbulent as these, commend me to the Ladies for Historiographers,” writes John Adams to Mary Palmer. “The Gentlemen are too much engaged in Action. The Ladies are cooler Spectators.” founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...
founders.archives.gov
July 6, 2026 at 12:01 AM
5 JULY 1776, PHILADELPHIA: “In Times as turbulent as these, commend me to the Ladies for Historiographers,” writes John Adams to Mary Palmer. “The Gentlemen are too much engaged in Action. The Ladies are cooler Spectators.” founders.archives.gov/documents/Ad...
Not to play semantics, but part of the problem is that a lot of Japanese historiographers don't really describe Late Imperial Japan as being a fascist state. It was certainly authoritarian and extremely anti-democratic, but fascism has unique issues that weren't in Japan.
August 15, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Not to play semantics, but part of the problem is that a lot of Japanese historiographers don't really describe Late Imperial Japan as being a fascist state. It was certainly authoritarian and extremely anti-democratic, but fascism has unique issues that weren't in Japan.
I'm not remotely versed in Chinese history, but I was reading on WP the favored courtesan of the last Shang king whom the Zhou historiographers all blamed for his moral corruption & the Wikipedia commentators all made it sound like the Zhou were a LOT more regressive on gender than the Shang?
September 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I'm not remotely versed in Chinese history, but I was reading on WP the favored courtesan of the last Shang king whom the Zhou historiographers all blamed for his moral corruption & the Wikipedia commentators all made it sound like the Zhou were a LOT more regressive on gender than the Shang?
David Herbert Donald’s two-part biography of Sumner is a rich text for historiographers. The first part, published in 1960, is dismissive of abolitionists, as this review says. But that’s not true of the second part, published in 1970 in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement.
Charles Sumner Was More Than Just a Guy Who Got Caned on the Senate Floor
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
David Herbert Donald’s two-part biography of Sumner is a rich text for historiographers. The first part, published in 1960, is dismissive of abolitionists, as this review says. But that’s not true of the second part, published in 1970 in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement.
Ooh I like that as an exam question for historiographers - is history what happened? or what was recorded to have happened?
March 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Ooh I like that as an exam question for historiographers - is history what happened? or what was recorded to have happened?
I wonder how historiographers settled Second Age periodization. Like, I get that the War of the Last Alliance was a big deal, but surely Arda Made Round was a bigger one?
September 3, 2024 at 9:40 PM
I wonder how historiographers settled Second Age periodization. Like, I get that the War of the Last Alliance was a big deal, but surely Arda Made Round was a bigger one?
There are some folks that like 40k in a competitive table top meta chasing way and that's fine. There are others who like it for the communal narrative for your home forged totally not a legion despite having a hundred thousand units of Ultramarine successor.
I like snarky mock historiographers. :3
I like snarky mock historiographers. :3
December 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
There are some folks that like 40k in a competitive table top meta chasing way and that's fine. There are others who like it for the communal narrative for your home forged totally not a legion despite having a hundred thousand units of Ultramarine successor.
I like snarky mock historiographers. :3
I like snarky mock historiographers. :3
is a measure of a “chaos” in world history a reasonable expectation for historians (or historiographers) to be able to deliver on?
The world certainly feels very chaotic now. S Korea govt wobbled, Syria's fell. Parliamentary instability in several European countries. And the looming reTrumpening.
But is this really an especially chaotic moment in world history? How to measure?
But is this really an especially chaotic moment in world history? How to measure?
December 9, 2024 at 3:46 AM
is a measure of a “chaos” in world history a reasonable expectation for historians (or historiographers) to be able to deliver on?
Historiographers have been working on the "all history is political interpretation" story for decades and the White House just ... tweeted it out.
BREAKING WSJ:
The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision
Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.
www.wsj.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Historiographers have been working on the "all history is political interpretation" story for decades and the White House just ... tweeted it out.
For I see that all good historiographers have thus handled their chronicles, not only the Arabians, Barbarians, and Latins, but also the gentle Greeks, who were eternal drinkers.
April 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
For I see that all good historiographers have thus handled their chronicles, not only the Arabians, Barbarians, and Latins, but also the gentle Greeks, who were eternal drinkers.
Gang, if I’m the one to do it, please make sure you represent me with my fursona in the historical record; and in any picture where the act is being depicted, please have me showing hog and toebeans.
Thank you in advance to the many beautiful and lovely historiographers of this potential future:
Thank you in advance to the many beautiful and lovely historiographers of this potential future:
April 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Gang, if I’m the one to do it, please make sure you represent me with my fursona in the historical record; and in any picture where the act is being depicted, please have me showing hog and toebeans.
Thank you in advance to the many beautiful and lovely historiographers of this potential future:
Thank you in advance to the many beautiful and lovely historiographers of this potential future:
Of the infancy of Pantagruel
I find by the ancient historiographers and poets that divers have been born
in this world after very strange manners, which would be too long to
repeat; read therefore the seventh chapter of Pliny, if you have so…
— François Rabelais
#fiction #books #booksky
I find by the ancient historiographers and poets that divers have been born
in this world after very strange manners, which would be too long to
repeat; read therefore the seventh chapter of Pliny, if you have so…
— François Rabelais
#fiction #books #booksky
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August 8, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Baron gets to live long enough to hear what history paints regarding Dear Daddy; over and over and over and over. Historians/Historiographers have no loyalty to the POS. Their language is Truth.
October 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Baron gets to live long enough to hear what history paints regarding Dear Daddy; over and over and over and over. Historians/Historiographers have no loyalty to the POS. Their language is Truth.
For EM historiographers (and the Welsh), H7 matters in dynastic terms, but I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say it matters in the same way in epochal terms
January 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
For EM historiographers (and the Welsh), H7 matters in dynastic terms, but I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say it matters in the same way in epochal terms