The Black Death killed half of Europe. But it did not kill randomly. The pattern of who died, where, and when has been in the historical record the whole time. Nobody taught you this part. #BlackDeath #Plague #MedievalHistory #HistoryMyths #ForgottenHistory #Bluesky

The Emancipation Proclamation freed no one on the day it was signed. Lincoln himself said so. Here is what he was actually doing. #Lincoln #EmancipationProclamation #AmericanHistory #HistoryMyths #ForgottenHistory #Bluesky

The horned Viking helmet was invented by an opera costume designer in 1876. Not one has ever been found at a Viking archaeological site. #Vikings #NorseHistory #HistoryMyths #HistoricalMyths #ForgottenHistory #Bluesky

She won two Nobel Prizes. France voted her out by two votes, then voted 90 to 52 to ban all women permanently. #MarieCurie #WomenInScience #NobelPrize #ForgottenHistory #HistoryMyths #Bluesky

He never set foot on the continent. He died thinking he was in Asia. And it is named after someone else entirely. #Columbus #Americas #IndigenousHistory #HistoryMyths #ForgottenHistory

The Great Wall myth was written in 1754. Two centuries later, every astronaut who looked for it from space came back empty-handed. #GreatWall #China #SpaceMyths #HistoryMyths #ForgottenHistory #Bluesky

The story of Rasputin's death was told by the man who killed him. The autopsy said something completely different. #Rasputin #RussianHistory #Romanovs #HistoryMyths #ForgottenHistory

Three myths about Einstein that history quietly corrected. The failed student. The Nobel for relativity. The bomb. #Einstein #ScienceHistory #HistoryMyths #NobelPrize #ForgottenHistory

Genghis Khan killed somewhere between 40 and 60 million people. What history has largely forgotten is what he built. #Trending #ForgottenHistory #HistoryMyths #GenghisKhan #MongolEmpire #UntoldHistory

The story goes like this. Nikola Tesla, the brilliant Serbian inventor, was cheated by Thomas Edison, robbed of his rightful place in history, and died alone and penniless...Almost none of it is true. #Trending #ForgottenHistory #HistoryMyths #NikolaTesla #ThomasEdison #UntoldHistory