doing historiography again
June 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
doing historiography again
The more you read about Russian historiography the more you realize it's just this
September 25, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The more you read about Russian historiography the more you realize it's just this
Yesterday I taught a class about the historiography of Stonewall.
I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today.
Next year I'll use this.
I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today.
Next year I'll use this.
A small, ancillary detail in this horror that made me cry
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Yesterday I taught a class about the historiography of Stonewall.
I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today.
Next year I'll use this.
I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today.
Next year I'll use this.
History: who the fuck?
Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?
Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?
February 25, 2026 at 7:01 PM
History: who the fuck?
Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?
Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?
I also find that people in the West are generally unaware of just how harshly the CCP's official historiography judges Mao's policies
Mao was bad. It’s insane that that’s a potentially divisive statement on this website.
September 18, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I also find that people in the West are generally unaware of just how harshly the CCP's official historiography judges Mao's policies
The Western left isn't gargling Russian propaganda, it's just coincidence that they have basically the same historiography of WWII as the Russian Federation
April 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The Western left isn't gargling Russian propaganda, it's just coincidence that they have basically the same historiography of WWII as the Russian Federation
"Given power by the social democrats" tankie Weimar historiography never ceases to amaze me
"lets check in on what's happening at bluesky dot app this afterno-OH FUCK BAIL OUT BAIL OUT THAT'S HOLOCAUST DENIAL ON MAIN"
June 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Given power by the social democrats" tankie Weimar historiography never ceases to amaze me
The descendants of the people who were brutalized, excluded, and killed have a say in historiography too.
July 11, 2026 at 3:33 PM
The descendants of the people who were brutalized, excluded, and killed have a say in historiography too.
yes, this joke about the historiography of China is definitely racist, and not something that you're too dumb or ignorant to understand.
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
yes, this joke about the historiography of China is definitely racist, and not something that you're too dumb or ignorant to understand.
Historiography is everything. “The American Revolution happened” is history. “The American Revolution began in 1775” is historiography. Every thing you decide to reference when discussing an event is historiography and involves making a judgement on it.
July 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Historiography is everything. “The American Revolution happened” is history. “The American Revolution began in 1775” is historiography. Every thing you decide to reference when discussing an event is historiography and involves making a judgement on it.
It is genuinely baffling how Western Marxist historiography just refuses to grapple with the fact that the victims of communist dictatorships were often other communists within their own borders
this is a standard which M-L historiography applies exclusively to the winners of national struggles and never to the comrades in good standing who were murdered in the thousands to allow them to win.
September 19, 2026 at 9:56 PM
It is genuinely baffling how Western Marxist historiography just refuses to grapple with the fact that the victims of communist dictatorships were often other communists within their own borders
Me bringing the historiography into the footnotes
September 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Me bringing the historiography into the footnotes
The judges should stick to their area of expertise, which is bad faith historiography
June 14, 2024 at 2:37 PM
The judges should stick to their area of expertise, which is bad faith historiography
to paraphrase Ada Palmer in Inventing the Renaissance - the Victorians are, as ever, the true villains of historiography.
May 18, 2026 at 3:07 AM
to paraphrase Ada Palmer in Inventing the Renaissance - the Victorians are, as ever, the true villains of historiography.
Jesus I’d never even thought there was historiography in English on the song military
September 18, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Jesus I’d never even thought there was historiography in English on the song military
what's frustrating to me is that there is a whole rich historiography here! great scholars are doing great work and this bama can't be bothered to open a journal article much less crack open a book
June 8, 2026 at 5:04 PM
what's frustrating to me is that there is a whole rich historiography here! great scholars are doing great work and this bama can't be bothered to open a journal article much less crack open a book
Reviewer: this essay neglects the entire historiography in the field
Me: i'm focused on the future
Me: i'm focused on the future
October 3, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Reviewer: this essay neglects the entire historiography in the field
Me: i'm focused on the future
Me: i'm focused on the future
Historiography of the Mormon migrations
April 22, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Historiography of the Mormon migrations
"Does the Taj Mahal count as porkbarreling", the longest debate in Mughal historiography, closed after 594,000 journal articles
December 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"Does the Taj Mahal count as porkbarreling", the longest debate in Mughal historiography, closed after 594,000 journal articles
How does it change the historiography of the Cold War now that both sides fell to fascism?
January 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
How does it change the historiography of the Cold War now that both sides fell to fascism?
And the historiography has moved on from that vein as incomplete
People, there’s an entire vein of historical thought that the French Revolution was primarily a political crisis. You don’t have to agree with it! But it’s absolutely not a crazy view
April 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
And the historiography has moved on from that vein as incomplete
this is a standard which M-L historiography applies exclusively to the winners of national struggles and never to the comrades in good standing who were murdered in the thousands to allow them to win.
September 19, 2026 at 3:51 PM
this is a standard which M-L historiography applies exclusively to the winners of national struggles and never to the comrades in good standing who were murdered in the thousands to allow them to win.