https://aaslh.org/reframing-history/There is some great stuff out there this is what I have seen over the last 24 hours. As always if you see anything that I should add to the next newsletter drop me a comment, send me an email (david@davidiwilliams.com) or hit me up on twitter @davidi_williams.
Now to the stories
Ukraine
Obviously, we have a lot of stuff about Ukraine today.
This speech from Kenya’s Ambassador to the UN is a powerful rejection of tribalism.
The BBC 4 Podcast “In Our Time” has an episode on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Dr. Timothy Snyder recently gave a talk on the history of Ukraine last week.
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook have produced a very timely podcast
episode for their show The Rest Is History
https://play.acast.com/s/the-rest-is-history-podcast/155-ukraine-and-russiaH. W. Brands has another good piece on his Substack today
Timothy Snyder has an op-ed in the Financial Times: “Putin’s denial of Ukrainian statehood carries dark historical echoes”
https://www.ft.com/content/1df8a99b-804c-467b-98e1-ce8b47b5b513
History and Culture
Father Carlson: Tucker Carlson is on Russia’s Side
The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
https://www.thebulwark.com/father-carlson/The ‘Freedom Convoys’ and the Old Dreams of an American Revolution in Canada
The Bulwark
by Daniel Gullotta
https://www.thebulwark.com/the-freedom-convoys-and-the-old-dreams-of-an-american-revolution-in-canada/No, the Canadian Trucker Protests Are Not Comparable to Jan. 6tqu
The Bulwark
by Thomas Lacaque
https://www.thebulwark.com/no-the-canadian-trucker-protests-are-not-really-comparable-to-jan-6th/On Guillotines, Monarchy, and the American Right
by Matt Gabriele
https://prof-gabriele.medium.com/on-guillotines-and-the-american-right-de0343b72341
Webinars
From the American Association for State and Local History is launching an interesting looking project. Reframing history
Throughout 2022, we will host discussions of Reframing History to deepen en
gagement with its ideas and help the field consider its wide-ranging implications. We hope you’ll join us for our first event to launch the project, on February 26, 2022at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and live-streamed online.
https://aaslh.org/reframing-history/