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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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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@wartsandbrawls13h
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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Did you know that the first women to land on the Normandy beachhead in June 1944 were nurses of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service? Their task was to establish a field hospital for 600 wounded soldiers. They succeeded. Please remember these heroines who saved lives:
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Gertrude Tompkins Silver disappeared OTD, 1944. She departed from Mines Field (Los Angeles International Airport) for Palm Springs, on October 26, 1944, flying a North American P-51D Mustang destined for NJ and never made it. She is the only WWII- era WASP to go missing.
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October 25, 1785: Toypurina, a Tongva medicine woman, rebels against the Spanish, leading an attack against Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.
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Miss Edith Radford, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 25 October 1918.© IWM WWC H2-140
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Remembering Nurse Diana Cooper, Voluntary Aid Detachment, died in a vehicle accident on the 25th October 1945 aged 23. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW2 #nurses
Nurse Diana COOPER | Remember The Fallen

Nurse Diana COOPER | Remember The Fallen

Nurse Diana COOPER served and died in WW2. Dicover the memorials and service history of this War Casualty.

rememberthefallen.co.uk
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