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Glad we cleared that up🇵🇷Share this to help educate others plz❤️ I am so excited to see Puerto Rican culture take center stage. by @laurencella

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Victoria, come get your grandkids. Don’t make us come back here again plz. #genz #worldwarone #history #millennial #teachersofinstagram by @laurencella

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We’re back, comrades. I wish I could do these more but they just sort of come to me sometimes 🤣 I hope you learned something new, bestie 😘 #teachersofinstagram #genz #millennial #history #russianrevolution by @laurencella

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Know your worth, Queen💅🏻 Real king behavior:🇵🇹💀 1367 – Prince Pedro of Portugal: After Inês de Castro’s death, he posthumously crowned her his queen and they are buried together facing each other.🇸🇪👰🏻‍♀️ 2015 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden: Married Sofia Hellqvist, a controversial love match that created a beautiful family.💌🌶️ 1796 – Napoleon Bonaparte: Married his wife Joséphine and they were kinda toxic but he still wrote her hundred of NSFW love letters.🌸🪴 c. 600 BC – King Nebuchadnezzar II: Built the legendary Hanging Gardens for his queen Amytis so she would feel at home.🇷🇺👑 1894 – Tsar Nicholas II: Married Alexandra and gifted her many Fabergé eggs and was a loving husband and father.🇨🇳💍 1487 – Hongzhi Emperor: Due to the fate of his own concubine mother, he remained devoted solely to Empress Zhang and their children.🏺☀️ c. 1264 BC – Ramesses II: Built a temple for Queen Nefertari at Abu Simbel, declaring that the sun shined for her.The point here isn’t to glorify these men, but to dispel the notion that affection or devotion to women is weakness. Thanks for watching and please share💌 by @laurencella

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No major spoilers, but it’s been 3,000 years.😳🐴In anticipation of the new movie, I read the 2017 Emily Wilson translation (which Christopher Nolan used) and was blown away by her scholarship and fresh lens. Opening with, “Tell me about a complicated man,” because I don’t ever want to hear about women being dramatic, like have you met Odysseus?! Wilson’s translation strips away a lot of the misogynistic interpretations of her predecessors and shows the original nuance much more honestly than the version I remember from school. My own career has been defined by a similar mission, so I was inspired to post this video essay.History shows that this region was hightly interconnected, and so I loved that Nolan didn’t portray just one look for the ensemble cast. At the same time, I understand it would have been great to include a diverse cast of Greek actors in main roles as well. Overall, the performances were really fantastic and the film manages to make an ancient, epic story feel intimate and timely. Also in an age of generated slop, the technical aspects and practical effects of the film were incredible and refreshing. I already want to watch it again.Finally, it fascinates me that every civilization mythologizes their own history and continues to do so. Is it because when records and memories fade or fail, ancient archetypes and familiarity take hold? Even the most “advanced” civilizations fall into ruin when a prideful population willfully offloads their own critical thinking and humanity. The Odyssdey story actually opens with The Bronze Age at the brink of societal collapse. When the dust settles, how do we decide who gets to be the hero? by @laurencella

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TLDR: French Revolution Timeline 🇫🇷📅 1789: France is broke and starving, and King Louis XVI is desperate. TBH he was too young and dumb. He calls an emergency meeting, the first in 175 years, at his fancy gold palace Versailles with the First Estate (clergy), Second Estate (nobility), and Third Estate (commoners…about 98% of the population). Instead of solving the crisis, Louis kicks the Third Estate out.🇺🇸 Plot twist: France had just spent hella helping the Americans overthrow the British king. In the Age of Enlightenment, the irony was too much.🎾 June 20: The Third Estate locks in literally and takes the Tennis Court Oath, promising to write a new constitution for France.🏰 July 14: Parisians storm the Bastille, a fortress castle, to get gunpowder. It remains the symbol of the Revolution.📜 Marquis de Lafayette, famous French ally of the USA, helps lead the National Guard and draft The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, very similar concept as the USA founding documents.👑 1793: The Revolution becomes more radical. Louis XVI is executed via guillotine, followed by Marie Antoinette. Her story is complicated, and most of the propaganda against her was shaped by misogyny and tragedy.🎖️ 1799: The Revolution loses the plot, with revolutionaries executing each other and anyone really. France falls into a power vacuum, and Napoleon takes control.Just like the USA, France didn’t become a democracy overnight. It took multiple governments, brave leaders, and five republics to get there. That’s why July 14 (Bastille Day) is celebrated like France’s Fourth of July, honoring “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity).History reminds us that the fight for freedom is never finished, and ordinary voices matter. 🇫🇷❤️Happy Bastille Day & Vive la France! by @laurencella

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Louisa and John Quincy Adams were quite the pair.In a new essay series from @inpursuitusa there is one line that describes their relationship perfectly; “They were an odd fit: he distrusted society; she was built for it. It turned out he would need her, however much he sometimes might have wanted to deny that too.”TBH, I didn’t know her story until I read this essay. TLDR: Louisa Adams was a diplomatic genius who shaped her husband’s legacy. But she also built a hidden legacy of her own that feels surprisingly modern. It’s an honor to help share her story to a new generation.The entire essay series on Substack is spilling the tea on our past Presidents and First Ladies from the last 250 years.For more deep dives like this one, read all the essays and follow along with @inpursuitusa on their Substack. by @laurencella

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A teenaged girl who subverted all norms and claimed to answer to a higher power than the powers that be was just too much of a threat. Did it matter that she wore pants to avoid harassment and because she literally was wearing armor into BATTLE?! No, they unalived her anyway. Back up, two years earlier word spread that Joan was on a divine mission to help King Charles VII defend France from the English and rebel factions. Charles’s father was infamously mentally ill (actually thought he was made of glass) and had taken his own son out of the line succession to keep the peace, in favor of an English King who also shared in the royal bloodline (these people were all pretty inbred). So if Charles jr. wanted to get the French throne back, he would literally have to fight for it. He agreed to meet Joan at his exiled Castile in Chinon in 1429, but legend says he had a trick for her. He placed a rando on his throne and he put on a disguise and blended into the crowd. When the teenaged girl (an illiterate peasant who had no way of knowing what he looked like) went straight up to him, he was impressed and all we know for sure is they had a meeting. We don’t know exactly what she said to convince him that God had sent her, but he ended up giving her an army to lead and she famously took charge and broke the siege of Orleans, clearing a path for the soldiers to drive the English out of Northern France and help end the 100 years war. Today, her redemption arc has been a holy one (literally) and she remains a legend, an icon, and a historical figure whose faith and bravery continue to inspire new generations. by @laurencella

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They all deserved better and so do we.🙏❤️‍🩹 It breaks my heart to see the same patterns play out century after century across the globe because it just isn’t clocking for some of you still. The fight never ended and that’s why women’s history matters. by @laurencella

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👩‍⚖️What if women in history got a fair trial?1. Anne Boleyn was accused of adultery, treason, and more by her husband King Henry VIII. He was a desperate for a male heir and the trial was clearly fake, as he already had his third wife lined up (six in total). Ironically Anne’s only daughter became Queen Elizabeth I ends up ushering the English Golden Age and made sure history honored her mother. She never married for obvious reasons. 👑2. Joan of Arc was a symbolic icon and hero. But then she was abandoned by the king for causing too much trouble and wearing pants. She was executed but later fully vindicated and declared a saint.🙏3. Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake,” and if you want to hate on the French monarchy system, that’s valid. But if you look at her life as a whole, and her trial, and what was done to her children…it was not justice and she didn’t deserve it.🍰4. Ida B. Wells risked her life by exposing the racial terror in the United States. Born into slavery, she became a journalist, educator, suffragist, and activist and is remembered as an iconic civil rights leader. 🗳️5. Cleopatra was a baddie for sure, pulling legendary leaders like Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. But these were political alliances to secure her throne and empire, the same strategy powerful men have used for centuries.🏺6. Hypatia was a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher and her influence made some loser men threatened, leading to false accusations and a brutal execution. 📚Obviously evil doesn’t have a gender, there WERE and are some very evil women out there. But as a whole, in every rank of society, there’s no denying the power structure imbalance that we see from the past and the present day! by @laurencella

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Just a hapa teacher on the mainland sharing history and spreading Aloha 🌺I grew up hearing these stories from my own family, but sadly it’s not covered in many schools so here we go!For the sake of time, we start with the unification of Hawaiʻi under King Kamehameha I and the sovereign Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. In 1887 outside forces and economic colonization was the name of the game and King Kalākaua was forced to sign the “Bayonet Constitution”, weakening Hawaiian power. In 1893, Queen Liliʻuokalani was arrested after trying to restore it. One surprising fact, the monarchy was technically overthrown by a group of private businessmen, not the U.S. government itself. She was the last Queen of Hawaii and spent the rest of her life fighting for the people.The USA kinda apologized for this, but then annexed Hawaiʻi in 1898 anyways, saying Japan would make the same play. Because no treaty exists, many consider the annexation illegal. Hawaiʻi remained a U.S. territory situationship until statehood in 1959.For generations, Hawaiian language, culture, and traditions were suppressed. Yet despite those efforts and modern challenges…the people have endured. Today, many Hawaiians continue working to protect and preserve their culture, language, and shared heritage.🤙 by @laurencella

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