@jnisly-goretzki
Postdoc Agrarian History Uni Kassel. Interested in early modern Germany, cattle breeding, race, gender and rural inequality & the Oeconomic Enlightenment. Also Brown Swiss cows, Baroque choirs & prairies. He/him.
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
The Anabaptist tradition I come from would say this is the original sin of not resisting Constantine, but I wonder if that's not giving too easy of an answer.
Den Auftakt der Internationalen Wochen gegen Rassismus bildet eine Podiumsdiskussion im Großen Sitzungssaal des Neuen Rathauses mit dem Titel „Wer ist das Volk? Der Volksbegriff der extremen Rechten“ am 16. März 2026 um 19:00 Uhr.
"Das diesjährige Programm in München nimmt rechtsextreme und rassistische Narrative sowie deren Wirkung in der sogenannten Mitte in den Blick.
Den Auftakt der Internationalen Wochen gegen Rassismus bildet eine Podiumsdiskussion mit dem Titel "Wer ist das Volk? Der Volksbegriff der extremen Rechten"
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
I'm so disappointed when I see really cool artwork in a post and go to share it l, only to realise it doesn't have alt-text. Because then I don't share it. And I want to share cool art with people. Please add alt-text to any images you post. You can even enable in-app reminders to help you remember.
“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!
Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon - Europe’s landscapes for 23 Myr were mostly tree- & flower-rich mosaics shaped by large herbivores, not dense #forests, see our new synthesis www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #forests #woodlands #paleoecology #nature #trees #refiorestation
The amount of truly terrible, inaccurate images plastered everywhere by state museums in Germany during the peasant war anniversary last year was actually shocking to me.
Exactly, there are not only seemingly countless public domain images digitalized by public institutions, but also websites where photographers make professional quality photos of almost any imaginable subject available.
Much like the pacifist Amish mentioned above benefitted directly and immensely as homesteaders from genocidal violence against American Indians.
Ah, of course members of the group renowned as among the first Euro and Euro-American abolitionists were also very successful in a product thoroughly entwined in slavery and colonial violence.
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
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I was just looking at primary sources on policy debates as well as farming magazines in post-war West Germany for a class, fascinating to see how a relatively new, upper middle-class phenomenon in the U.S. was being projected as a norm on to women farmers there by both American and German experts.
Yep. Married women have always worked. Many had jobs outside the home, many more did piecemeal work at home to supplement the family income. There are dozens & dozens of books by historians about this. I know because one of my comps fields was History of the American Family & I had to read them all
This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food
And tbf, even in that original thread most are less claiming a preference for specifically factory jobs and more just a preference for anything but farming.
Books not at all, I think, but the TV series was moderately popular? I'll have to ask friends. In my relatively TV-free Kansas childhood the books were wildly popular as fun personal reading/identity building.
And yes, I think I mixed up the replies to the original skeet with replies to the quote.
Of course, the bucolic vision of farmers as the personification of honest hard work played a huge role in Nazi Blood and Soil antisemitism as well. It's predecessors in Romantic anti-urbanism in 19th century Germany shared some of those roots with the yeomen in Enlightenment agromanie.
Jefferson et al and the european agromanie before them certainly have a lot to answer for with the imaginary of the yeoman farmer and "honest" work. But it seems like many of the replies to Ursula are overcorrecting to romanticizing deadly factory and slum living conditions.
For all of the talk of people starving on farms in the replies, famine pretty much always hit poor urban dwellers first. Almost no one with secure access to land willingly left, it was the exploited siblings (especially young women) or landless poor who left.
Absolutely for the whitewashing of genocide! But everyone in the replies is chiming in about how people so gladly left farms for deadly factory jobs...and, uh, wo romanticizing farm life, cities were so deadly that they needed demographic growth from countryside until around 1900!
To be left dead by attacks is the natural state of the Middle Easterner, while in the Western culture (also Israel somehow) being killed is a major taboo.
Tricolored baby goat with impossibly long ears
I'm going to need you to look at this face
A very large part of mythology about Germanic deities and religious practices can be traced back to wild speculation by the Grimm brothers (fairy tales of course being only one part of their broader project for national unity)
That statue, which was cast back in 1961, was modeled on 1950s Texas Rangers – as in the law enforcement Texas Rangers – Captain Jay Banks. Since it's unveiling 65 years ago it has spent most of its life at Love Field in Dallas. But then in 2020 it was removed and placed in storage. Why? Because Captain Jay Banks was a racist cop who made it his mission to stop schools from integrating. This is an excerpt from the 2020 book, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson, which describes' Banks' role in efforts to keep schools in Texas racially segregated in defiance of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education: Then there is the form and face of the statue itself. This dates to 1956, when the NAACP, backed with a court order, attempted to integrate the high school in Mansfield, about 30 miles southwest of Dallas. White residents erupted in fury, so Gov. Allan Shivers dispatched the Rangers. But unlike state police in other Southern racial hotspots, the Rangers in Mansfield did not escort black students past howling mobs of white supremacists. They had been sent instead to keep the black children out of a white school.
The commanding Ranger on the scene was Sgt. E.J. “Jay” Banks. A wire service photo showed him casually leaning against a tree outside Mansfield High. To his left, above the school’s entrance, was a dummy in blackface, hanging from a noose. Nearby a white mob had assembled. Some carried signs that threatened death for anyone attempting to integrate the school. Banks saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob. “They were just ‘salt of the earth’ citizens,” he later wrote. “They were concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life.” Blacks were so intimidated that none attempted to enroll at Mansfield. Several days later, Gov. Shivers ordered Banks and a few other Rangers to Northeast Texas, because African-Americans wished to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, a public institution. Again the Rangers’ job was to stop black students from enrolling. As at Mansfield, a mob of white men gathered outside the school. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, both black, arrived by cab and began to walk toward the college. The mob blocked their path. Some surrounded the 17-year-old and kicked him, while others threw gravel. The Rangers watched it happen and did nothing except threaten to arrest the two students. That wire service photo of Banks in front of the school with the Black person hung in effigy can be seen at the top of today's newsletter.
The statue was removed from public view in 2020 in the wake of that book about the Rangers being published. This occurred at the same time that statues of Confederates, Klansmen, racists, and segregationists were removed all over the country following the murder of George Floyd. But now the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, knowing full well the history of the statue, its subject, and its removal, and knowing that multiple municipal institutions decided it was inappropriate for public display, is happy to put that statue up in a public concourse at a major league baseball stadium. When I learned of this yesterday afternoon I contacted Major League Baseball and asked the following questions: Is Major League Baseball aware of the history of the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue and its subject, Jay Banks? Is Major League Baseball aware that Love Field and the City of Dallas removed the statue and put it in storage in 2020 after Banks' involvement in attempting to keep schools segregated in the 1950s came to light? Does Major League Baseball condone one of its Clubs erecting a previously-removed statue of a staunch segregationist at its ballpark?; and Does Major League Baseball have any comment regarding the discomfort that will be felt by Black fans when confronted with the statue of a segregationist at Globe Life Field? I did not receive a response. I'm going to assume that the league's silence on this means that it wholly condones the Rangers putting up the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue despite its sordid and extraordinarily well-reported history.
Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
a scribe sitting at a writing desk, in a setting of around 1400 Europe. he is writing with a quill in one book, while another book is opened, and two more books are present on and in the writing desk.
Tab hoarding is leading to stress and information overload, and distraction, since the Middle Ages. #tabhoarding
The sheer cynicism and/or ignorance: a local politician here quoted Rosa Luxemburg and Martin Luther to defend himself against being called far right (for his party suggesting unconstitutional treatment of refugees) www.fraenkischertag.de/lokales/bamb...
Bookplate of daffodils by Anne Pratt
🌼 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🌼Happy St. David's Day!🌼
Daffodils have been a national symbol of Wales since the 19th century.
This bookplate of daffodils is from ‘Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain’ by the botanical illustrator Anne Pratt (1806-1893).
Reagan on the My Lai Massacre
Today's find in the (online) archives: The Times, Trenton, N.J., Dec 3, 1969.
