Welcome to this week’s History Thread! This week we’ll try having a discussion question for the first time in awhile (though don’t feel bound by it): pieces of historical writing that changed your worldview. Be it a book, an essay, … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Writes, Strikes and Otherwise Causes Change

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! I’ll try coming up with discussion topics for future threads, but let’s again have fun talking about whatever. This week’s picture: On August 7, 1964 both houses of Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! No rules except have fun and don’t gratuitously insult your fellow posters! Today’s image: on this date in 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella decided to celebrate the Reconquest of Spain from Islam by … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! No discussion topic, just fun and learning! Today’s picture: On July 24, 1915 the SS Eastland, a passenger ship used for touring Lake Michigan, capsized while docked in Chicago. Exactly what happened is unclear, … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Capsizes!

Welcome to this week’s history thread. As we’ve done for the past few weeks, I’ll dispense with a discussion question; it doesn’t seem to have seriously inhibited discussion, and it saves me the three brain cells I might otherwise expend … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

History: A blast from the past! Today’s picture: July 10th is the anniversary of the Isshi Incident, a key moment in the early history of Imperial Japan. Soga no Iruka, the scion to the powerful Soga clan, was assassinated by … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

“General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Can’t Take That Position

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! At this point, I’m inclined to call it yet another open thread and call it a day. Today’s picture: On June 26, 1975 two FBI Agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, entered the Pine … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s history thread! This week we’ll discuss times you were wrong about history. Surely we’ve all held erroneous beliefs about historical events or people that we later came to realize were bullshit. Perhaps even unwittingly spread them … Continue reading The History Thread Admits It’s Wrong

I’m not the biggest fan of the color blue (black is my favorite, as edge-lordy as it sounds), but I do have a soft spot for a certain shade that is commonly called “Maya Blue.” True to it’s name, the … Continue reading The History Thread is Feeling (Maya) Blue.

Welcome to this week’s History Thread. Sorry about the past two weeks, WordPress issues prevented anything from posting. I’ll declare this an Open Thread where you can discuss anything history related that’s happened over the past few weeks. Today’s image: … Continue reading The History Thread is Back!

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! This week’s topic: Terrorism. Everyone during this generation has lived under the shadow of terrorism, but it’s not a new phenomenon and goes back, in one form or another, all the way to distant … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Blows Up!

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! It’s May Day, so we’re going to discuss labor and the history of labor activism. Today’s picture commemorates the famous Haymarket Riot in 1886, which led to May Day’s adoption as an international worker’s … Continue reading The Hardly Working History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! This week we’re going to discuss ideologies in history: political, philosophical, religious or other. I’m casting the net as broadly as possible to encourage a wide-ranging discussion. What systems of government or economics have … Continue reading The Ideological Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s history thread! This week’s discussion topic: What is your primary resource for learning about history? Do you read books, like a nerd? Do you watch documentaries, also like a nerd? Do you watch a movie/read a … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Learns

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! This week our discussion topic will be turning points in history. Big or small, obvious or subtle, there are specific lives or events that made an impact on history more than a single day … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! I’ll be lazy and proclaim this an Open Thread where you can discuss whatever you like. Today’s picture: April 3rd, 1895 marked the beginning of the trial against John Douglas, Marquess of Queensberry for … Continue reading The Libelous Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! This week’s topic: subjects you know nothing, or not enough about. No matter how much history you’ve studied, there are going to be blind spots in your knowledge. What are some subjects that, whether … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Forgets

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Because we’re running behind, I’ll be brief. This week’s topic is atrocities, whether murders or massacres or genocides or what have you. Not the cheeriest topic, but humanity has a long, hallowed history of … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread is Too Late!

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! Have fun and be historical! This week’s discussion question: Facts that changed your worldview. If you’ve studied history at all, whether as a history buff, a serious researcher or even someone with marginal interest in … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread

Welcome to this week’s History Thread! This week’s topic: Historical pet peeves? A recycled topic I fear, but always a fun one. This thread enjoys complaining about the bad things in history, whether specific topics or the poor ways it’s taught, … Continue reading The Angry Weekly History Thread