William Brennan

High School History and Russian language educator. Holocaust and Genocide Studies dual enrollment instructor. Retweet not endorsement.

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

Pleased to announce the publication of my most recent article in The Saber and Scroll Historical Journal on continuity and contingency in the origins of the Armenian genocide. Special thanks to the editors of @SaberandScroll for their patience and support. https://t.co/6DTYY3jeTT

[John Vsetecka @JohnVsetecka]

Same museum just a few years apart. I took the picture on the left just before the full-scale invasion. The picture on the right is what the Chornobyl Museum looks like after Russia destroyed it last night.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Before ChatGPT, more than 98 per cent of all English-language articles published on the internet were written by humans. By the fall of 2024, machines were writing around half.
https://t.co/8bGxYcoGcS

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

@tribunemagazine Not quite sure how Robeson's role as an apologist for Stalin quite fits in with your claim that he was dedicated to a worldwide "struggle against oppression and exploitation." By the time he wrote his sycophantic "To You Beloved Comrade" in 1953, Stalin had genocided millions:

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Exciting news. I ve been finishing this. Out in the summer.
W&N & Knopf sign Simon Sebag Montefiore on Middle East
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East a ‘spellbinding book from the bestselling, prize-winning historian & master storyteller' https://t.co/rHiq5ZUnYo

[US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum]

Hermann Göring was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, functioning at times as Hitler's number two. After being convicted and sentenced to death at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, he escaped execution by killing himself #OTD in 1946. 📷: NARA

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

@LUC_Etobicoke @geogvma yup https://t.co/t563uvTWsi

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

@geogvma Yeah I've seen that. Ukro-apologist, etc. Btw you saw this, right? Tankies at Yale shut down his class for "brainwashing" students with "anti-communist" views. Can't make this stuff up: https://t.co/44USDGChA2

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

@geogvma "No serious historian believes..."

[US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum]

Herta Oberheuser had trained to ease people’s pain. Instead the doctor used her skills to perform cruel, sometimes deadly experiments on prisoners of Nazi persecution. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in late August 1947 by the International Military Tribunal. 📷: NARA

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

@aldenejones Do they finish it at home or during the next class in front of you?

[Alden Jones @aldenejones]

1. Have a conversation with your students on day 1 about ChatGPT and why you are trying new teaching methods so they will not be tempted to use it. They are more on board than you think.
2. Paper texts.
3. I give my essay assignments in class, handed out on a piece of paper. They must finish their introduction before leaving class. No laptops unless there is an accommodation - all on paper.
4. Give them as many assignments as possible that ask for a personal angle combined with the topic. We need to keep them personally invested in what they think and how to best express it. This basic skill is about to plummet.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

I'll be live-tweeting D-Day beginning Thursday, 5 June. Minute by minute, at key points in the invasion. Stay tuned. @WWIIMemorial

[Iaroslava Strikha @pocketful_of]

Wow, this is the book to read if you need a workshop in how to package decades worth of social, cultural and political change—the amount of exposition that would scare off all but the geekiest of readers—into digestible stories with vivid, conflicted, memorable characters.🧵

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

@geogvma Same to you! https://t.co/cQFnOdvOf2

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

Teaching the Holodomor on Vyshyvanka Day. Slava Ukraini!

Проповідь про Голодомор до Дня Вишиванки. Слава Україні!

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

On the War in Ukraine and Historical Turning Points: My latest in Medium

https://t.co/0WT1p4DgHn

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

I just published a book review of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands on Medium. 1/2
https://t.co/SImlgoVke1

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

Bloodlands, which focuses on Hitler and Stalin's dueling efforts to control Ukraine and the role this played in the mass killing of Slavs and Jews in Europe from 1933 to 1945, offers important insights into understanding the roots of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine today.

[William Brennan @HistoryBrennan]

Teaching the Holodomor on Vyshyvanka Day. Slava Ukraini!

Проповідь про Голодомор до Дня Вишиванки. Слава Україні!

[World Jewish Congress @WorldJewishCong]

Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer was laid to rest in Germany today.

She was a woman of unshakable moral courage, a survivor of unimaginable loss, and a voice of remembrance for generations.

May her memory be a blessing.

Photo ©️ Shahar Azran/WJC

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

EXCLUSIVE: Cosmo Jarvis, star of FX’s smash hit series “Shōgun,” will play future Soviet leader Stalin in biopic “Young Stalin” based on @simonmontefiore prizewinning book.

The film is financed by Access Entertainment, which backed “The Zone of Interest” and “Conclave.”