RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91.

She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world.

https://theconversation.com/jane-goodall-the-gentle-disrupter-whose-research-on-chimpanzees-redefined-what-it-meant-to-be-human-205909
#JaneGoodall #science #history

RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91.

She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world.

https://theconversation.com/jane-goodall-the-gentle-disrupter-whose-research-on-chimpanzees-redefined-what-it-meant-to-be-human-205909
#JaneGoodall #science #history

One can think of Trump's ICE raids and the program of mass deportation as a LAPSE into barbarism. The U.S. under MAGA has gone fascist.

One could also think of these assaults as a RETURN to colonialist origins, i.e., a continuation of longstanding programs and practices of cleansing, purification, and expropriation.

Perhaps we are seeing not a sudden departure from democracy, but a re-assertion of what Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has called "the US state religion."

#history #histodons

Question: Are there any books (in English, German, or Italian) which detail the trade network of Renaissance/early Modern #Venice in Germany and the German-speaking regions of the European Alps?

I am particularly interested in the flow of raw materials from #mining flowing into Venice.

#history

Question: Are there any books (in English, German, or Italian) which detail the trade network of Renaissance/early Modern #Venice in Germany and the German-speaking regions of the European Alps?

I am particularly interested in the flow of raw materials from #mining flowing into Venice.

#history

American democracy keeps facing the same test. Reconstruction. Watergate. January 6th. Each was an inkblot: some saw freedom and law, others tyranny and betrayal.

The danger isn’t just the crisis—it’s perception unmoored from fact. A lie, repeated often enough, creates its own inkblot. Not to reveal the viewer. But to control them.

1/17

#history #blackmastodon #histodons #blackandwhite #photo #photography #politics #democracy #fascism #civilwar

JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month. https://www.jstor.org/action/showLogin #research #education #science #history #economics 📚📘

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was wrong to claim that World War II was the last time the United States won a major theater war. We also won the Gulf War.
#military #history #politics

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was wrong to claim that World War II was the last time the United States won a major theater war. We also won the Gulf War.
#military #history #politics

American democracy keeps facing the same test. Reconstruction. Watergate. January 6th. Each was an inkblot: some saw freedom and law, others tyranny and betrayal.

The danger isn’t just the crisis—it’s perception unmoored from fact. A lie, repeated often enough, creates its own inkblot. Not to reveal the viewer. But to control them.

1/17

#history #blackmastodon #histodons #blackandwhite #photo #photography #politics #democracy #fascism #civilwar

Mesopotamia and the Emergence of the Hydraulic State: When Water Shapes Power

Did you know that the mastery of irrigation in Mesopotamia as early as 3500 BCE gave rise to the first centralized states? Wittfogel’s concept of the "hydraulic state" shows how water imposed bureaucracy and hierarchy at the heart of the earliest civilizations. #History #Mesopotamia #HydraulicState Mesopotamia and the Hydraulic State: Water as a Source of PowerMesopotamia, the cradle of…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/mesopotamia-and-the-emergence-of-the-hydraulic-state-when-water-shapes-power/

Mesopotamia and the Emergence of the Hydraulic State: When Water Shapes Power

Did you know that the mastery of irrigation in Mesopotamia as early as 3500 BCE gave rise to the first centralized states? Wittfogel’s concept of the "hydraulic state" shows how water imposed bureaucracy and hierarchy at the heart of the earliest civilizations. #History #Mesopotamia #HydraulicState Mesopotamia and the Hydraulic State: Water as a Source of PowerMesopotamia, the cradle of…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/mesopotamia-and-the-emergence-of-the-hydraulic-state-when-water-shapes-power/

JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month. https://www.jstor.org/action/showLogin #research #education #science #history #economics 📚📘

It was a 'triangular trade', and one side of the triangle was the shipping of enslaved people to the Americas. In London, I joined a walking tour that joins the dots about that city's involvement in (and profit from) that evil trade:

#london #uk #tour #history https://www.patreon.com/posts/london-slavery-139983847

It was a 'triangular trade', and one side of the triangle was the shipping of enslaved people to the Americas. In London, I joined a walking tour that joins the dots about that city's involvement in (and profit from) that evil trade:

#london #uk #tour #history https://www.patreon.com/posts/london-slavery-139983847

Black-Palestinian Solidarity Panel, Monday, October 6th, 5-7 PM, UC Berkeley Campus
Dr. Butch (Bilal) Ware, Dr. Hatem Bazian, & Amir Sundiata Rashid
#EndTheGenocide #uspol #intpol #BLM #FreePalestine #history #future
https://tinyurl.com/octpanel