Jack Weaver

[Jack Weaver @JBWHistorian]

I miss living somewhere that can look like this

[John Cinder @CinderMountain]

There's a certain type of Midwesterner that knows the value of the pallid marriage of purple and orange on a deathly silent winter night.

It is one of the purest forms of existence in the great North.

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

I, uh, I can't help but notice that you left being sent to fight the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis.

Y'know, the two largest wars the United States has ever fought. Also, morally, the best wars we ever fought.

Can't imagine why he left those out, huh?

[Dr. Alexander S. Burns @KKriegeBlog]

Academic historians are vital for societies because they allow soldiers, policymakers, and citizens to think beyond the limits of their own experiences.

We are all prisoners of the present. Understanding the past allows us to escape, and confront our challenges more effectively.

[Wren Scarborough🪉✨ @wrenscarborough]

My husband, reading Out of the Silent Planet: "Why is everyone naked?"

Me: "This is only the second most naked of the books. Perelandra is the most naked."

[Jack Weaver @JBWHistorian]

@bigscarypriv George Washington gets it when people are writing about the start of the Seven Years’ War in North America

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

By about 4000 BC, people around the Great Lakes were hammering native copper into axes, knives, fishhooks and spear points.

Ancient North America had a metalworking tradition most people never hear about.

[Dr. Alexander S. Burns @KKriegeBlog]

Universities should be more cost efficient and focused on getting good returns for their students.

And

The idea that Americans can’t afford homes because “too many people majored in art history” is preposterous.

We used to be able to afford homes with a highschool diploma.

[Victoria 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @Hanasaku_Yuri]

to defend Americans, every time I say I'm from the US the immediate first question out of people's mouths is "oh, where in the US" and they are always mildly disappointed when I don't say "New York," "Texas," or "California" but a state which requires a little more geography

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

Why not treat the early modernist in your life to a plague doctor bath bomb

[Amelia™ @RealiaAmelia]

i never considered that you used to have to send a letter to the newspaper to make this sort of tweet

[Alexander Thatcher @ThatchEffendi]

I was reading about the roots of the Patroclus/Hector funerals in Anatolian royal funerary rites, noticed that the two funerals are both incomplete and lack rites only performed in the other funeral, but then immediately realized that Homeric scholarship is 2,700 years old and someone else must have noticed this (correct).

[John Handel @_John_Handel]

I think we are at a historiographical inflection point where there is a huge comparative advantage to reading old secondary work (like 1930s-1970s). Cultural history has become so much the norm that current students no longer are taught/no longer even engage with the historiography that cultural history emerged out of

[Jack Weaver @JBWHistorian]

@achillghost Real

[Jack Weaver @JBWHistorian]

Never before has someone better summed up the diplomatic career of Sir William Johnson in one sentence

[Lux_Stella @Lux_Stella_]

guy who uses 'turtle island' because they're a haudenosaunee supremacist

[Jack Weaver @JBWHistorian]

@KKriegeBlog What’s funny is that the people who don’t personally know the people in that picture don’t know that the corporal is taller than average for the US and the other 8th foot guys are giant midwesterners

[IdentityTheftTheMetro @MaacTheft]

The craziest part of growing up in the northeast is finding out knowing a ton of Irish and Italians is actually not standard for the United States.

[Geoff Coffelt @Skate_a_book]

A vehicle made with a military grade chassis that 4’11” mail carriers have a clear line of sight from and 6’2” mail carriers not have to injure their backs hunching down getting packages in the back all day is good. NGDV is an ergonomic masterpiece designed for the worker

[U.S. Department of the Interior @Interior]

Words to familiarize yourself with before Fat Bear Week starts on Tuesday:

Hefty — Packing extra poundage
Hoss — Has its own gravitational pull
Wide Load — Please allow extra room at Brooks Falls
Built Different — Mostly made of salmon
Mega Chonk — Final boss of chonks
Big Back — Self-explanatory
Winter-ready — Fat. Glorious. Prepared

Study up. There will be a test.