Twitter

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/15/19
  

  Tenure, Twitter and Taking Her Board to Task

  Historian at U of Minnesota "celebrates" tenure with a scathing critique of her governing board's recent actions against a building-renaming proposal. She says she couldn't have risked these statements without job security.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/19/19
  

  When bad actors twist history, historians take to Twitter. That’s a good thing.

  by Waitman Wade Beorn

  Engaging with the public isn’t pedantry; it’s direct engagement. 

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• 3/8/19
  

  What Historians Are Tweeting: The Women Historians Who Inspire on International Women's Day

  Dr. Sarah Bond (@SarahEBond) asked "How did your female mentor make a difference in your career?" Here are some of the responses.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/4/19
  

  In since-deleted xenophobic tweet, author Barbara Ehrenreich attacks Marie Kondo

  Ehrenreich made a comment about fellow author Marie Kondo that quickly went viral. 

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• 1/24/19
  

  What Historians Are Saying: State of the Union 2019

  What historians are saying on Twitter about Pelosi, Trump, and the postponed State of the Union address.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  12-16-2018
  

  How Kevin Kruse Became History’s Attack Dog

  A few years ago, the Princeton historian brought his scholarship to hostile territory: Twitter. It made him famous and sent a message to the field that a serious scholar can also throw punches.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  9-30-18
  

  Two historians are among a list of scholars whose Twitter accounts were suspended

  Twitter says they had been suspended in error by the company’s anti-spam technology.

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• 7/23/18
  

  Historians are getting fed-up with trolls on Twitter

  Recently, there's been an upsurge in complaints.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  12-27-17
  

  The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Every Tweet. Good.

  Instead, it will then begin to “acquire tweets on a selective basis.”

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• SOURCE: Newsmax
  12-14-17
  

  Victor Davis Hanson says Trump Must "Retire as Twitter Champ”

  “Why should Trump still care what a minor journalist tweets about him to get much-needed attention? Why does the president need to keep pounding increasingly irrelevant former FBI Director James Comey, who has been reduced to tweeting anti-Trump slogans?”

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  11-17-17
  

  Twitter Is Full of Fake History Photos

  Here's how to outsmart them.

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• 12-3-17
  

  East Europeans Who Lived Under Communism Know All About Fake News

  by Vlad B. Jecan

  These are some of the lessons they learned.

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• 7-30-17
  

  Trump Should Stop Tweeting and Keep a Diary or Write Letters Instead

  by Laurence Jurdem

  That helped calm Lincoln, Truman, and Bush 41.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Texan
  10-13-16
  

  H.W. Brands is telling the American story through Twitter posts

  Brands has posted over 1,000 tweets chronicling past historical events such as the Dred Scott Case of 1857, the battle of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the Watergate scandal of 1974.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  3-24-16
  

  Microsoft’s A.I. Twitter Robot Praises Hitler, Endorses Trump, Denies Holocaust

  Microsoft deployed a “highly opinionated” artificial intelligence robot on Twitter. The first thing it learned? To hate.

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• 3-15-15
  

  Why Historians Should Use Twitter: An Interview with Katrina Gulliver

  by Alexander S. Collie

  An interview with Twitterstorian Katrina Gulliver.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  1-13-15
  

  Lawmaker Compares Obama to Hitler in Tweet on Paris Attack

  The tweet juxtaposes Hitler's visit to the vanquished city after his troops invaded in World War II, and Obama's failure to join dozens of world leaders at an anti-terror march through Paris on Sunday.

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• 9-9-14
  

  These Historians on Twitter Don't Have a Large Following -- But They Should!

  by Erik Moshe

  Back in July HNN published an article about the historians who have the most followers on Twitter. Here we draw attention to the historians who lack larger numbers of followers, but are worth a try.

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• 7-14-14
  

  Which Historians Have the Most Followers on Twitter?

  by Erik Moshe

  Here are Twitter's top active historians along with some interesting information about what they are tweeting about.

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• SOURCE: Wired
  2-6-14
  

  Twitter Opens Its Enormous Archives to Data-Hungry Academics

  Twitter is sharing its massive trove of data with the academic world — for free.