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Here in the U.S., as we presently try to foil the ongoing efforts of Fascist Billionaires to overtake our governenment, let's remember that overly rich businesspeople are, historically, inimical to democracy.


Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? | Sally Denton | The Guardian
While it was probably a thing, I don't think it's ever been proven. I don't recall any documentation ever being produced, besides the testimony of ... Smedley, I think.
 

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Wait, what? The invention of the printing press helped bring on the witch-hunting craze?

Between 1400 and 1775, a significant upsurge of witch trials swept across early-modern Europe, resulting in the execution of an estimated 40,000–60,000 accused witches. Historians and social scientists have long studied this period in hopes of learning more about how large-scale social changes occur. Some have pointed to the invention of the printing press and the publication of witch-hunting manuals—most notably the highly influential Malleus maleficarum—as a major factor, making it easier for the witch-hunting hysteria to spread across the continent.

The abrupt emergence of the craze and its rapid spread, resulting in a pronounced shift in social behaviors—namely, the often brutal persecution of suspected witches—is consistent with a theory of social change dubbed "ideational diffusion," according to a new paper published in the journal Theory and Society. There is the introduction of new ideas, reinforced by social networks, that eventually take root and lead to widespread behavioral changes in a society.
 

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Wait, what? The invention of the printing press helped bring on the witch-hunting craze?
Makes sense. We're seeing the same damaging effect with the introduction of social media. People can share bad ideas that much more quickly, building momentum. "FEMA will take your land" is not a conspiracy that would have gotten much traction in the days before the internet.
 

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Wait, what? The invention of the printing press helped bring on the witch-hunting craze?

Oh yes. It was just the first iteration of an over-familiar pattern of foaming-at-the-mouth populists seizing the means of media production. Well, 2nd, rather, with the first being the pulpit as any Jew can readily attest. The printing press was also quite pivotal during the Wars of Reformation by raising the temperature to a fevered pitch on both sides. Nasty piece of work, there.
 

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This isn’t about history exactly but, I didn’t know where to place it. The family was isolated in Siberia for many years. The article came out in 2013 (first time I’m hearing of it) but was recently updated. Anyway, I found it interesting.




There’s also a Vice video from 2013 I haven’t watched yet.

 
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I agree with James Wright: Witches marks do nothing to ward off witches and demons. (That's not his point? Oh, sure...)
 
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I have degrees in History and Heritage Studies (combining History, Literature, Folklore, and Public Policy) and I now teach Writing for STEM. These have far more in common than people think when they consider Science and Humanities as disciplines.

In both cases, the researcher makes an observation or sets out to explore an area of study, and then they gather evidence to make an augment that supports their thesis/hypothesis. And in both cases others in their field will contest all or part of that argument by a combination of finding new evidence and reinterpreting the author's evidence in light of a competing thesis/hypothesis.

Just like scientists, Historians build a broad consensus over time while disputing at the edges. And we have had similar shifts when either significant new evidence is found (it is astonishing the number of manuscripts that have not been cataloged) or we apply new methods. For Historians in the 20th Century, that included looking at other disciplines to make assumptions about broader social groups who could not make their own written records. Economists and chemists (looking at traces of trade and migration, for example) have helped to expand available evidence for historians at the same time that they started looking beyond elite groups in historic interpretation.