MacEwan History and Classics Club

Student run club at MacEwan University dedicated to increasing awareness and engagement in Academic and Popular understandings of the past.

[MacEwan History and Classics Club @MacewanHCC]

Welcome to another school year! https://t.co/d0AYdM8OhH

[MacEwan History and Classics Club @MacewanHCC]

Happy First Day of the 2020 school year at MacEwan! We are looking forward to another new year of learning, with fresh ideas and concepts and hope you are too. This year is a strange time to be at University, but we are sure you all will do marvellously. All our love, MacEwanHCC

[Henry Tudor @KngHnryVIII]

Today:
- brekkie
- obfuscate
- deny
- equivocate
- implacable rage
- sexy lute strumming
- refuse to see reason
- cheese debauchery
- reformation
- pies

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

How should we “count” public writing and service for tenure and promotion? https://t.co/fH7Edmz4Jg

[Medievalists.net @Medievalists]

Want to thank Shari Boodts for writing her series on #Augustine in the Middle Ages - here is her final column https://t.co/1XGF936v3l

[Amy Pistone @apistone]

Y'all, I've started ending every email I send my Greek class with a meme, and while looking for something about Greek grammar, stumbled on this gem!

[Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock]

Indigenous carvings found inside 17th-century Mexican tunnel, part of a dike system which originated in the 15th century to control the flow of water into the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. Fascinating discovery: https://t.co/oPeLJAna8t

[HISTORY @HISTORY]

Rumors that Kennedy made his early fortune as a bootlegger began to surface in the late 1960s, when conspiracy theorists were looking for reasons why the mafia might have played a role in the assassination of JFK. https://t.co/jIIuHpXJIu

[Peter Coene @Coene_Arts]

I stand corrected: turns out he was in more than one war. Still a bit misleading as the war he taught after wasn't the one he was famous for fighting in.

[HistoryExtra @HistoryExtra]

“It is thought that she rescued around 300 slaves directly – including some of her brothers, their families and her own parents – and gave instructions to help dozens more…” https://t.co/ptSZbKsUjc #Harriet #HarrietTubman

[Myth Crafts @MythCrafts]

Pope Innocent VIII and the Hammer of the Witches

If you’re familiar with the late Medieval European witch-hunts, chances are you’ve heard of the Malleus Maleficarum (English: the Hammer of the Witches).

#MythologyMonday

https://t.co/qUsSU7dYTc via @mythcrafts

[Dr Eleanor Janega @GoingMedieval]

ICYMI my latest in my on-going series about how courtly love is *still* ruining our society's relationships to sex, romance, and gender. This time with pick up artists.
https://t.co/Sehru7dC2E

[History Today @HistoryToday]

Robin Hood may not have existed, but the violent, unjust and lawless world in which he operated certainly did.

This week's archive read:
https://t.co/jwYlHxrsYl

[HISTORY @HISTORY]

Paranoia about tainted candy spiked in the early 1980s after a rash of Tylenol poisonings. https://t.co/utI2hwJBtD

[Willow Winsham @WillowWinsham]

Warning: you might view eggs and witches differently after reading this!

[History Today @HistoryToday]

Amid fraught discussions about how, or whether, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is easy to lose sight of the atmosphere in autumn 1989.

https://t.co/qksBBvD7C2

[Following Hadrian @carolemadge]

Extraordinary Roman villa reopened to public in Herculaneum
https://t.co/J1vFARCFg1

[Dominic Machado @DominicMachado1]

Diversifying/de-colonizing my syllabus for Roman history has been one of the most worthwhile things that I have done as a teacher. I have noticed a much higher level of interest from students this semester than ever before. 1/