On this day in 1942, Anne Frank received her first diary for her 13th birthday. On the cover page, she wrote: 'I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support." When she went into hiding during the Holocaust, her diary was one of the first items she packed.

Journeys in Film offers free Holocaust Education resources based on award-winning films to support educators who are teaching "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl".

Learn more:

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#AnneFrankDay #AnneFrankTag #AnneFrank #DiaryOfAnneFrank #HolocaustEducation #Education #TeachingResources #Homeschooling #Bookstodon #OTD #Histodons #History

📚 Ein #Historiker im #Pantheon: In seinem Artikel beleuchtet Klaus Oschema wie die Ehrung des Historikers und Widerstandskämpfers #MarcBloch neue Debatten über sein wissenschaftliches Erbe und seine politische Bedeutung entfacht.

➡️ Mehr dazu hier: faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/bue…

#Histodons #Geschichtswissenschaft

💬 Wie #kommunizierte man, bevor elektrische Übertragungstechniken entstanden?

Im Band 134 der #PHS untersucht Konrad Hauber, wie optische Telegrafen zwischen Beschleunigung und Störung, Öffentlichkeit und Geheimhaltung sowie Telekommunikation und Post eine neue Form gesellschaftlicher Selbstbeschreibung hervorbrachten. Dabei verbindet die Studie wissens- und mediengeschichtliche Perspektiven auf die #Geschichte der optischen Telegrafie.
📖 Zum Buch: heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalo…

#Histodons

“Hegseth’s D-Day remarks were swiftly condemned on social media.

The English historian, author and television presenter Simon Schama described them as a “special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity and comically ludicrous self-importance”.

#histodons

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He was elected to the Royal Society for figuring out how baby cuckoos roll eggs out of nests. Then he had an idea about cows, a gardener's son, and a lancet. Edward Jenner: violinist, balloonist, planter of roses, inventor of vaccination.

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#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories

📢 #AAC – Journées d’étude "#Corps masculins défaillants. Corps, #genre et #masculinités dans l’Occident médiéval (IVe-XVe siècle)"
📍 IHA, 28-29 janvier 2027

Comment les #blessures, mutilations, #handicaps ou défaillances du corps reconfigurent-ils les masculinités entre l’#Antiquité tardive et la fin du #MoyenÂge ?

📅Les propositions sont à envoyer avant le 1er juillet 2026.
FR/EN/DE • Publication envisagée.

➡️ Pour plus d’informations : dhi-paris.fr/fr/actualites/pag…

#Histodons #Paris

📢 #CfP: “Failing Male Bodies. #Body, #Gender, and #Masculinities in the Medieval West (4th-15th Centuries)”
📍 GHIP, 28–29 January 2027

What reconfigurations of gender identities did mutilation and, more broadly, the failings of the male body give rise to between Late #Antiquity and the end of the #MiddleAges?

📅 Proposals should be sent before 1 July 2026.
FR/EN/DE • Publication planned.

➡️ More information: dhi-paris.fr/fr/actualites/pag…

#Histodons #Paris #DHIP

“Have ye come far?”
“Only from America.”

#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.

She lands unexpectedly in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/…

Watch newsreel of her taking off here: youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyz…

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory @histodons #Histodons

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📢Plus qu'une semaine pour postuler à l'IHA!

Nous recherchons pour le 1er septembre 2026 ou une date fixée d’un commun accord un·e #doctorant·e – #CDD à temps partiel (24h/semaine) (h/f/x). Le poste permet de concevoir et de mener un projet de #thèse (3 ans) ou de l’achever (environ 1 an)

📅Date limite de candidature : 25 mai 2026
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#Histoire #Paris #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1893, Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia spoke at the Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She was the first woman to address the Kotahitanga, and called for Māori women to have the vote and to be members of the parliament.

#AotearoaHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

📢#Reminder: Nur noch eine Woche, um sich am #DHIP zu bewerben!

Zum 1.9.2026 (oder nach Vereinbarung) besetzen wir eine #Promotionsstelle – 24 Std./Woche (m/w/d). Die Stelle erlaubt die Konzeption und Durchführung eines #Promotionsprojekts (3 Jahre) oder dessen Abschluss (ca. 1 Jahr).

📅Bewerbungsfrist: 25. Mai 2026
➡️Zur Ausschreibung: karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/j…

#Histodons #Geschichte #Paris #Stellenangebot

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

17 May is Día das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day).

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1863, María Rosalía Rita de Castro's poetry is published. It’s the first publication by a single author in Galician for 400 years. The public holiday was introduced to celebrate the centenary of Rosalia de Castro's work.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Galicia #LiteraryWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

📢Encore quelques semaines pour postuler à notre cours d'automne 2026!
Vous êtes un #historien ou une #historienne (de l’art) intéressé·e par l'#Allemagne ? Candidatez pour approfondir vos connaissances en allemand et découvrir la #recherche en Allemagne.
📅Date limite de candidature : 22 juin 2026
➡️hist.uni-heidelberg.de/de/news…

#Histoire #CoursdAutomne #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 13 May 1995, Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen or sherpa guides.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen of Bohemia and consolidates her position as the ruler of the Austrian empire. The Seven Year War was promoted by rival claims to the empire, and she worked to elevate her husband to be Holy Roman Emperor. After his death she co-ruled with her son.

She sponsored trials of smallpox inoculation, having lost three of her children to the disease.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustrianHistory #RegnantWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 May 1978, Margaret Brewer becomes the first woman to reach the rank of General in the US Marines.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.

Read a brief history of Truth’s life: wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-di…

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#Job #Histodons
Die Gedenk- und #Bildungsstätte #Liebenau (bei #Nienburg​ / Weser) sucht als personelle Verstärkung eine*n Pädagogin/Pädagogen o. Historiker*in (TV-L 11, 75 %).
Erinnert wird dort an die NS- #Zwangsarbeit in der früheren #Munitionsfabrik & dem #Arbeitserziehungslager.

Gefördert u.a. durch die Stiftung niedersächsische #Gedenkstätten (#SnG).
Bewerbungsschluss 22.5.2026.

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@histodons

#Gedenkstätten #Erinnerungskultur #GFN

#OnThisDay, 7 May 1429, Jeanne d'Arc leads the French troops into the last day of fighting to lift the Siege of Orleans.

Read more at carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-ar…

#WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #FrenchHistory #HundredYearsWar #JoanOfArc #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research identifying cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

She's never captured.

She died in 2023, in New Zealand.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 30 April 1937, 447,725 women in the Philippines vote to be given the vote in the women's suffrage plebiscite.

Yes, the government did ask women to vote on whether they should have the vote…

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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time.

Newsreel: ina.fr/video/AFE86003075

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

📢Plus qu'un mois pour postuler à l'IHA!

Nous recherchons pour le 1er septembre 2026 ou une date fixée d’un commun accord un·e #doctorant·e – #CDD à temps partiel (24h/semaine) (h/f/x). Le poste permet de concevoir et de mener un projet de #thèse (3 ans) ou de l’achever (environ 1 an)

📅Date limite de candidature : 25 mai 2026
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#histodons #Paris #Histoire #Poste #Doctorat

#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the UK House of Commons. She was the first - and to date only - woman to hold the role.

A working class woman, Betty had been a dancer before working for JFK and becoming an MP. She went on to sit in the House of Lords.

Watch: buff.ly/38djBcP

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.

She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory #Histodons

Mit Razzien gegen Intellektuelle in #Konstantinopel begann heute vor 110 Jahren der #Völkermord an den #Armenier*innen. Klagelieder können als alternative Quellen zu Erfahrung & Erinnerung einer unterdrückten Geschichte des #Genozid​s dienen:

▶ Yektan Türkyılmaz, »Die Sonne gefror am Himmel«. Von den Schwierigkeiten der #Genozidforschung unter den Bedingungen der Verleugnungsideologie, #WerkstattGeschichte 81/2020, werkstattgeschichte.de/abstrac…

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #Aghet #Trauma

#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.

Read more: carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-…

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histodons

📖 Qui sont les #femmes du #MoyenAge ?

🔎 Des femmes qui écrivent aux femmes des mondes ruraux : trois #émissions et #articles avec l’historienne Justine Audebrand pour remettre en question nos idées reçues.

➡️theconversation.com/au-moyen-a…
➡️historia.fr/societe-religions/…
➡️ radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p…

#histodons #histoire #genre

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

🔜 Das Programm unserer #Handschriftenportal Summer School ist online. Der Kurs findet vom 29. September bis 2. Oktober 2026 an der @stabi_berlin statt.

Fortgeschrittene MA-Studierende & Promovierende mediävistischer Fächer können sich noch bis einschließlich 3. Mai 2026 bewerben. Alle Informationen finden Sie hier 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termin/handsch…

#medievodons #histodons #manuscripts #handschriften

🎧Ihr habt einen unserer letzten #Jeudis verpasst oder möchtet einen Vortrag noch einmal hören?
Der Audiomitschnitt des Vortrags von Susanne Lachenicht über „Naturgeschichten“ ist jetzt online. Sie untersucht, wie sogenanntes indigenes Wissen übertragen, umgedeutet und in #koloniale Wissensordnungen eingebettet wurde.

➡️Mehr dazu hier: dhi-paris.fr/de/publikationen/…

#histodons #dhip #WissensGeschichte

#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.

She was appointed heir by her father Henry I, then usurped by her cousin Stephen after Henry’s death. The civil war between the cousins is known as the Anarchy and lasted from 1138 to 1153.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
#EnglishHistory #AnarchyInTheUK #Histodons

📖Et si les #femmes du #MoyenÂge ne se résumaient pas à Jeanne d’Arc ? Dans „La vie des femmes au Moyen Âge“, l’historienne Justine Audebrand révèle la diversité de leurs conditions, positives comme négatives. Un #livre pour tous les amateur·rice·s d’#histoire, étudiant·e·s et enseignant·e·s qui souhaitent en savoir plus sur le Moyen Âge avant le XIIe siècle, et les femmes qui l’ont habité - au-delà des grandes figures.

➡️lisez.com/livres/la-vie-des-fe…

#histodons #medievodons #genre

#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.

Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Heute geht es los mit der Spring School zu #digitalhistory in #Tbilisi im Georgia Branch Office der @MaxWeberStiftung - bin schon sehr gespannt auf die Projekte der Kolleg:innen! aus Osteuropa und Zentralasien. Außerdem Input u.a. von @NanetteRissler @dinaraamirovna .

Zum Roundtable morgen könnt Ihr Euch dazu schalten 👉mwsgeorgia.hypotheses.org/1228…
#histodons #DHTbilisi

La #démocratie est-elle en crise ? L’historienne Silke Mende explore le lien entre démocratie et histoire contemporaine et analyse le rôle des historien·nes dans les débats publics face aux discours menaçants.

🎧Pour écouter la conférence complète : dhi-paris.fr/de/publikationen/…

#histodons #podcast #histoire #HistoireContemporaine #iha #jeudi

📢#CfP : Raul Hilberg, a Historian and his Century. Writing the History of the Holocaust Then and Now

#Colloque international à Paris (8-10 novembre 2026) consacré à réexaminer la trajectoire professionnelle et l’œuvre de l’historien de la Shoah Raul Hilberg.

📅15.4.2026
➡️dhi-paris.fr/fileadmin/user_up…

#histodons #histoire #history #ww2 #iha

Steckt #Demokratie in der Krise? Historikerin Silke Mende untersucht das Verhältnis von Demokratie und Zeitgeschichte und diskutiert die Rolle von Zeithistoriker:innen in öffentlichen Debatten angesichts aktueller Bedrohungsdiskurse.

🎧Neugierig? Den Vortrag jetzt anhören: dhi-paris.fr/de/publikationen/…

#Histodons #podcast #history #geschichte #dhip #ZeitGeschichte #jeudi