The great times never stop #Skystorians! Tomorrow, Tuesday April 21st, we've got an #AMA with Dr. Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani, author of Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran! Get your questions ready!
Its #AMA time #Skystorians! We're joined by Dr. Charles L. Ponce de Leon, who's here to talk about his new book "Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism: How a Magazine Born in the 1960s Changed America." And answer all your questions about this incredible topic!
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4/21, Tuesday— Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani, author of Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran, will be holding an AMA on the subreddit r/AskHistorians. Now is the perfect time to come up with questions for him!
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Mark your calendars #Skystorians, because on Monday April 20th we're hosting an #AMA with Dr. Charles L. Ponce de Leon, author of Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism: How A Magazine Born in the 1960s Changed America !
The study is about websites, but we've observed something similar on @askhistorians.bsky.social where we've gotten an deluge of overly saccharine, "fellow-kids" type bots over the last month. The team bans dozens of these things every day.
Keep that steady drip, drip of #history flowing into your feed with this fantastic answer from /u/Noble_Devil_Boruta on the history of using Saline in medicine! #Skystorians #HistMed
Tomorrow, on Friday April 17th, we're hosting a brilliant #AMA with Dr. Mills Kelly, author of A Hiker's History of the Appalachian Trail! Don't miss it #Skystorians!
Ever been interested in the AskHistorians behind the scenes? The fantastic @sarahagilbert.bsky.social has drafted up a fascinating post on the data and shared the Community Survey Results! Explore the surveys methods, & dive into the results, in this great thread:
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The hits keep on coming #Skystorians! Today we're joined by @josh-anthony.bsky.social and Dr. Camilla Townsend, who are ready & set to answer all your questions about the Nahuas, the aftermath of conquest and so much more!
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Hello Bluesky! I’m currently doing an AMA about my book After the Broken Spears on r/askhistorians. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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Today on AskHistorians, Michael Bycroft is discussing the history of gemstones during the Scientific Revolution! Come check it out!
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A new week brings a new #AMA for #Skystorians! Dr. Michael Bycroft, author of Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution, is here to answer all your questions about the Scientific Revolution, and the role these gems played!
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We've gotten a lot of tomato history questions over the years at AskHistorians so I'm very happy that today we have @annygaul.bsky.social's Ask Me Anything on tomatoes in Egpytian culinary history! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... @askhistorians.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
Starting now - AMA! Thanks to @askhistorians.bsky.social for hosting me! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
You can wait (up to 3+ year) for a review of your book in a scholarly journal for reaction + get the word out. & you can also use newer social media venues to generate curiosity about your book. I find it very comforting that in times of stress, people are turning to historians for answers. 👇
Today on AskHistorians we have @profnoather.bsky.social discussing extremism and the formation of American democracy! Come check out this Ask Me Anything!
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Keep some time free tomorrow, because we're going to have a fascinating #AMA with Dr. Noah Eber-Schmid, author of Founding Fanatics: Extremism and the Formation of American Democracy!
A hot new #AMA is upon us #Skystorians! @johngmarks.com has joined us to talk about Washington's Legacy of Slavery, and answer all your questions about George Washington, slavery, and American public memory! #Amhist
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I'm live over at @askhistorians.bsky.social! AMA about George Washington, slavery, and public memory before my book comes out tomorrow! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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This Friday I am going to park myself on Reddit to answer as many questions as I can about the TOMATO in EGYPT. Bring your questions! I will do my very best to respond!
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We're Announcing the Best of March Winners #Skystorians! Whether its searching for Roman records about Jesus' trial, uncovering witches or perceived homoerotic themes in Bram Stokers Dracula, we have some amazing #history worth checking out!
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I’ll be doing an AMA with @askhistorians.bsky.social on Monday! Looking forward to answering lots of questions about George Washington, slavery, and public memory the day before my new book comes out. I had a great time doing this when my last book came out in 2020, should be fun!
Looking for a chance to kick back and chill? #Skystorians can drop by our Friday Free For All for a bit more wide ranging discussion. What articles have you been working on? How has reddit changed for you? Tell us all about it!
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Today on AskHistorians, Josh Shiver joins us for an AMA on emotions and Confederate soldiers for his new book War Fought and Felt. Come check it out!
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Another hot new #AMA is coming #Skystorians! Friday April 3rd see's us sit down with Dr. Joshua Shiver, author of War Fought and Felt: The Emotional Motivations of Confederate Soldiers! A topic covering some of our most frequently asked questions on the subreddit!
Its #AMA time #Skystorians! We're hosting Dr. George Oberle, author of Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic! He's here to answer any and all your burning questions about this fascinating topic! #AmHist
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Today on r/AskHistorians, we have @goberle.bsky.social discussing Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic, new from @uvapress.bsky.social Come check it out!
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The image reads: "I (35/m/HRH) just lowered tea taxes on my colonies (166/gender neutral) and now they're throwing the tea in the harbor. AITAH? I recently finished up a very expensive dispute against my neighbor (63/m/HRH), they started when they built a tree fort in the woods that was over my colony's property line and beat up one of my colonists when they asked them to move. I spent a lot of my money that I didn't have to resolve this fight where my neighbor got all of his friends to gang up on me. Fortunately I won out in the end, but it drained my bank accounts and hurt my import/export business I run in India. So my friend Townshend (46/m/dead) suggested it, and I ended up having to ask my colonists for more money just for a little bit till I got my head above water, but they got really mad about it because they claimed they had no say so in it. Well it's my colony and they live in it and I should be allowed to charge them for living under my reign. Anyway. It started getting really heated and they started hating me. I later found out they were sneaking tea themselves so they didn't have to pay me at all for it! Well my new friend North (41/M/TRH) suggested changing the way I get them the tea, which would lower how much they paid me for the tea I got them and I could still make up for having to take care of them. I had hoped this would make them happy since it's fair and I could get my finances straighted out. Well, they didn't like it at all. Now they're culturally appropriating Indigenous American culture and throwing my legal tea in the harbor! I paid to protect them, I helped raise them, and now I feel like they're being so ungrateful. They say that if I'm going to charge them money for all of the tea, the goods, the protection I give them, they want a say so in how I run things. The problem is, is that they don't live in my house but across the lake on the property I let them use. Chat, AITAH?"
The best part about resurrecting long dead historical figures for our own amusement is the opportunity for them to spill the tea. Speaking of that, next up we have /u/HRHThrowAway who's dealing with a rebellious phase.
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The image is a picture of the post. It reads: "AITA for standing up to my in-laws who don’t respect my boundaries (absolute power over most of the known world)? I’ve really been through a lot with this, so sorry if I’m trauma dumping, but the new support group I’ve been going to has helped me realise it’s important to get these things off your lorica. Things first started with my father-in-law (60M). This guy had been a real trailblazer in his day, accomplishing Herculean tasks, but just couldn’t accept that it was time to let me run the family business. He kept trying to come out of retirement and tbh I felt overwhelmed. Things all got a bit messy (especially for that decoy eunuch) but eventually we talked things through properly and I made FiL realise how selfish he was being. The problem was his son (29M), a total narcissist, also wasn’t respecting my boundaries, which properly encompassed Italy and Africa which he seemed to think he had some kind of right to. So I went over to his (Rome) to speak my truth. In the end BiL did try to build a bridge between us, but at this point it was honestly too little too late, but it was a really valuable XP experience for me. Afterwards, I spent a bit more time with my other brother-in-law (48M). I have to admit at first I really liked this guy. It seemed like we shared the same progressive values and got on really well. But gradually it turned out he really wasn’t the best guy to have around. He hung out with this toxic guy I’d had to cut out of my life, then accused me of not respecting HIS boundaries (the River Danube), and worst of all turned out actually be a bit of a bigot deep down. There were several blazing rows but eventually we were able to put him it all to rest. His son, my nephew (10M), also showed some worrying signs from what he’d picked up from his dad, so I had to do what any responsible uncle would and sort that out. To add to all of this, I gradually realised there was clearly something inappropriate
Relationships are tricky, we all know that. Especially when boundaries collide. /u/flaviusofthemonth is dropping by to ask #Skystorians for a little help when it comes to managing the in-laws.
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