@readex.com🌍 Today is Global Handwashing Day--a crucial component of public health. Explore the post-WWII emergence of the World Health Organization on the Readex Blog: https://ow.ly/e3Wu50ZXHmt
#GlobalHandwashingDay #HealthHist #HealthHistory #Histmed #PrimarySources
@lewiswalpolelib.bsky.socialBring your students to the Lewis Walpole Library, and we'll help them learn about book history, printmaking, connoisseurship, collecting, material culture, and more. What can we do for your class?
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@readex.comLGBTQ+ partnerships remained hidden or were referred to in coded terms in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but in the pages of newspapers we find stories of loving relationships preserved in obituaries and poetry: https://ow.ly/QIkH50ZVBNb
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@sschronicles.bsky.socialHow we grade a claim: start with primary records, check specific dates against independent evidence, state where historians disagree, and record what we have not examined. For this audit, we worked from published transcriptions of the indictments, not the manuscript. #PrimarySources
@readex.comThe Earth Will Shake: The Uncanny Prophecy of John Hendrix and the Building of the Atomic City ☢️ https://ow.ly/nkSl50ZVqxf
#AtomicAge #ManhattanProject #NuclearHistory #PrimarySources #envhist
@sschronicles.bsky.socialSecond dated charge: Sir William Brereton, Hampton Court, 8 December 1533. The royal household is recorded at Greenwich that day. The indictment also covered "divers other days", so its dates never had to hold up. #AnneBoleyn #PrimarySources
@readex.com"Man, this is baseball, you gotta stop thinking! Just have fun. If you were having fun, you would have caught that ball!"
-Benny Rodriguez, The Sandlot
#CoachesDay #TeamSpirit #PrimarySources #Ephemera #SportsHistory #BaseballHistory
@dexinst.bsky.socialCalling all university students!
Are you looking for some #DissertationInspiration?
Join us for a drop in session to view original primary sources, perfect to spark ideas for your historical research.
Free and open to all.
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@johnokeefe.bsky.socialHow Film Became History: The Rise of the Archival Documentary in 1930s America
Thomas Doherty
newbooksnetwork.com/how-film-bec... #documentaries #filmhistory #primarysources
@citizenptnewsmt.bsky.socialMontana educators are diving into the heart of conservation with an interactive workshop that blends local wilderness stories with innovative teaching strategies!
Click to read more!
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@cronologia.bsky.socialRecords list Richard Brenner as a German explorer, but that label only tells part of the story. His work appears in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, and Brockhaus-Efron. #GermanHistory #Encyclopedias #PrimarySources #HistoricalRecords
@readex.com“Goat glands renew vim, vigor, and vitality”—satire from 1920, still relevant today! Thanks to pharmacists for keeping us informed and healthy.
#WorldPharmacistDay #ThankYouPharmacists #PrimarySources #HistoricalNewspapers #GovDocs
@newsbankneil.bsky.socialOrigins of the Nuclear Age! 'The Manhattan Project: Building the Atomic Bomb, 1942-1946' provides 30,000+ pages of declassified records documenting the science, strategy, and decisions that changed history.
tinyurl.com/rbxcttts #NuclearHistory #ColdWarStudies #PrimarySources #HistoryResearch #Readex
@readex.com🍂✨ Happy First Day of Fall!
@readex.comLiberty or land grab? In 1813, John H. Robinson called for support of the Mexican revolution—was he fighting for freedom or fertile territory?
Read his letter & decide: https://ow.ly/6iSM50ZO4TK
@readex.com"It was received with universal shouts of joy": The Declaration of Independence is read aloud across the new United States of America: https://ow.ly/SKSM50ZIkGg
@readex.comThe name "Social Evil Hospital" likely conjures images of a sinister building with dormer windows filled with darkened silhouettes and occupied by the vilest criminals imaginable. You wouldn't be totally wrong — it did in fact have dormer windows.
@statelibraryofks.bsky.socialDive into State Fair history & so much more when you visit library.ks.gov/KGI, KS government info spanning the State and generations of Kansans. Meet us at the State Fair in the Pride of KS Building! @travelks.bsky.social #ksleg #PrimarySources 2/2
@historyskills.bsky.socialNeed primary sources on Medieval Europe? This directory provides access to museum collections and academic databases covering feudalism to medieval crime and punishment.
www.historyskills.com/finding-sour...
#MedievalHistory #PrimarySources #MiddleAges #HistoryTeacher #HistoryEducation