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Allison

@arm_hist

history faculty member; historian of women and war, esp. nurses in war; Host profile for Daily Women in War/Conflict Challenge. RT not an endorsement

Joined November 2021
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Because it shows that women have been writing and publishing about their roles in war for centuries but because they were excluded from academia, they were ignored. IOW, their stories are *everywhere* if we know where to look and what to look for.
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CNN PROJECTS THAT THE MITOCHONDRIA WILL REMAIN THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
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In a normal society, this would be called the English department, but since English departments no longer teach literature, we now need a separate department to teach the Great Books. You can't make this stuff up.
Brian Anderson (@BrianAcity) profile pictureBrian Anderson
@BrianAcityNov 3
Some higher-ed good news: Clemson is launching a new department based on the Great Books, with up to 120 scholarships a year and a Socratic tutor for each student. C. Bradley Thompson reports on The Lyceum—and on profs putting teaching first again: city-journal.org/article/cle…
We’re Building a New Kind of Department at Clemson

We’re Building a New Kind of Department at Clemson

The Lyceum will give students a chance to read the Great Books and ask fundamental questions.

city-journal.org
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4 November 1918 Wilfred Owen is shot and killed at the Sambre canal.
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i had a professor in undergrad who would brutalize your papers, often with a red pen for its obvious affective function, but it was always to the betterment of your essay! and as i’m grading now i really want to do that but i understand that im not the main grader rn
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OTD, 1944, Anne and Margot Frank arrived in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northeast Germany.
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I'd dissuade people from getting a BA but certainly not a funded PhD in the humanities. I would (and have) suggested planning a career path that isn't academia though
Matthew Guertin (@ghostowlredux) profile pictureMatthew Guertin@ghostowlreduxOct 31
Like, my profs in college in no way tried to dissuade me from pursuing a PhD in philosophy but even actively encouraged it, and this despite knowing the landscape concretely when I did not. This was, in hindsight, unethical and an abdication of one's responsibility as a mentor.
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Yes. A million times, yes!
John Reeks (@wartsandbrawls) profile pictureJohn Reeks@wartsandbrawlsNov 2
Lecture recordings devalue education by reinforcing the idea that lectures are just textbook-style content, and encourage students to make poor choices by giving them an inferior but easy option.
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OTD, 1918. From: The Alexandria Times-Tribune. (November 2, 1918). . Newspapers.com. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from newspapers.com/article/the-a…
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Damn how much daylight they trying to save?? It’s dark as hell.
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Neil Renic@NC_RenicNov 1
November marks the offical start of “Let’s just push this to next year”
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OTD, 1961, Women Strike for Peace organized a 50,000-person strong march in Washington, DC to protest against nuclear weapons.
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Remembering Nurse Gertrude Roskell, Voluntary Aid Detachment, died from appendicitis on the 31st October 1915 aged 36. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
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In his first speech to Parliament after learning of the Declaration of Independence, King George vows to crush the rebels.
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Happy Halloween!
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Just discovered a brilliant new abbreviation: ai:dr
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Seriously, reading a book a week for a subject was standard in virtually every literature degree in the English-speaking world for decades. Either the students have gotten stupid (they haven't) or the education system is failing our communities (hint: it's the second one)
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Students actually *want* to be challenged and to read good and interesting things? It's actually *universities* letting them down with cost-cutting, fluff and "meet them where they are" nonsense? I'm shocked, I say! Shocked!
David Luhnow (@davidluhnow) profile pictureDavid Luhnow@davidluhnowOct 28
It’s the most brutal class at Harvard—and suddenly everyone wants in. No AI, no finance. It's a big dose of western civ and classics. Great to see. wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-cl… via @WSJ
The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take

The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take

It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10?

wsj.com
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Remembering Sister Hilda Jones, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, died from pneumonia following influenza on the 28th October 1918 aged 32. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… Photo courtesy & © of Hilda’s family #WW1 #nurses
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OTD, 1918, "The Woman the Germans Shot" premiered. It was an American silent film about Edith Cavell. It starred Julia Arthur in her screen debut.
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Remembering Civilian Hospital Nurse Vera Anderson, died during an enemy air raid on the 27th October 1944 aged 42. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW2 #nurses
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