Even after a flurry of Christmas-season sales (thanks!), Amazon has #Suicide and the #Communion of #Saints on big discount, so if you shop there and you were considering buying the book, today could be the day.

"Breadth or Depth: The Ongoing Battle in Professional Military Education," by @rdwadle.bsky.social & Heather Venable. @smh-historians.bsky.social ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/J...

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

If only the U.S. had a president who wasn't a Russian asset. What a perfect time to crush Russia.

Read this, please. Our rights are not negotiable. “I Counted Trump’s Censorship Attempts. Here’s What I Found.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

Man who starts war with the a coalition featuring endless manpower, unlimited manufacturing capacity, and control of all the world’s communication lanes which ends in the complete destruction of his country. Genius indeed.

Welcome to the Public Domain, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) 🎖️ 🎬 The third film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards is a realistic look at World War I. Experience the first filmed adaptation now in the #publicdomain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

I find that the baseline for many lawyers using history in their arguments is to pull quotes with zero regard for context and then say “see, I proved my point.” It is lazy, egotistical, and harmful in the extreme.

For the first time since 2009, PolitiFact is recalibrating the Lie of the Year — our award for the most egregious falsehood we've seen in a year's worth of fact-checking. This year, we want to focus less on the offenders who perpetuate the falsehoods, and more on those who are hurt by them. 🧵

The destruction of knowledge and history is haphazard & breathtaking. NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts.

Explore how British defeats and prisoners of war were perceived during the Revolutionary period. Free registration. On-line. @smh-historians.bsky.social www.masshist.org/events/enemi...

There is nothing inexplicable about why some histories are not widely known.

Good review of Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy: "a landmark study of applied history. There is no more impressive defense of the past’s usefulness in print. Gavin captures what so many histor ians know but struggle to communicate: www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Notion of returning to battleships -- not that golden an idea. Excellent explanation from Mark Cancian of @csis.org here: www.csis.org/analysis/gol...

What have #skystorians been reading in 2025? Look back at some of our most popular pieces this year. Topping the list is Julia Haagar's primer on grad school reading and note-taking. clioandthecontemporary.com/2019/09/23/h...

Just because LSCOmania is the thing, don't forget... @smh-historians.bsky.social

When someone says there a “Heritage American” they are a “blood and soil nationalist.” www.ushmm.org/antisemitism...

#OnThisDay in 1776, General George Washington and his army crossed the Delaware River on #Christmas night to surprise attack a Hessian garrison in Trenton, New Jersey. Washington and his 2,400 men would defeat the Hessians decisively at the Battle of Trenton.

Grab a cup of Christmas Cheer and settle in for @lynnprobbins.bsky.social’s chat with @jmbeatty.bsky.social about women, the American Revolution, and In Dependence www.revolutionaryhistories.com/revolutions-...

The paperback version just arrived!

@smh-historians.bsky.social careers.sdsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

Here’s a great piece on @netflix.com’s series “Death by Lightning” by the outstanding Historian and National Park Ranger @richcondon.bsky.social. He’s kind enough to mention my name and cite my book in this review of the series for @scwhistorians.bsky.social’s Journal of the Civil War Era.

U.S. surrendering in the diplomatic contest for influence in Africa. Never in my life would I have expected such a craven, cowardly retreat from global leadership by the U.S. Russia and China rejoice as this country runs away.

The economy is fine. Everyone stay calm. www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

Earlier I bleeted about how AI cannot do historical research for you. There's something else it can't do: write. Sure, it can follow rules and process data to string words into coherent sentences. But it cannot *write.* An excerpt from a piece I wrote for WaPo years back on biography as art.

This evening, the Blackthorn. No lemon peel. Sigh. www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/re...

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

A historian of China makes a point about Trump's assault on the Smithsonian. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

On the recommendation of @huwjdav.bsky.social, this evening's cocktail, a twist on my bitter favorite.

Great. Not. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"Cal Poly Pomona is currently in the works of creating a native plant nursery at the Lyle Center, which will be of use to the Gabrielino-Tongva....These plants will be accessible for harvest to the Gabrielino-Tongva," CPP's Poly Post. thepolypost.com/arts-and-cul... #Tongva

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.

There are moments when silence is not an option. My wife, Robin, a retired Brigadier General, and I, a retired Army Colonel, have spent our adult lives in uniform and in public service.

Just released by CMH, The New York Campaign, 1776 (psst, my rank was professor NOT associate professor). history.army.mil/Portals/143/...

Blockade, act of war, nothing to see here, move along folks.

For my friends in PME & those with an interest in history, @lmchervinsky.bsky.social has a worthwhile consideration on the Monroe Doctrine and the new National Security Strategy. open.substack.com/pub/imperfec...

Do you want to learn how to spot originalist arguments, understand how they work, and respond effectively? Then we’ve got the guide for you: Countering Originalism. It’s written for lawyers, but it can help scholars, teachers, students, journalists, and commentators, too. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B

Terrific analysis and scathing critique of the new U.S. National Security Strategy by @kschake.bsky.social .It “assumes that the US can be a terribly ally (…) and yet other countries (…) are going to help us achieve what we want in the world. (…) it just doesn’t work that way.”+