Looking forward to this!!!

A wonderful weekend talking about the Revolutionary War at the 2026 Schmidt Symposium with brilliant scholars & wonderful colleagues.Thank you, @karadixonvuic.bsky.social! 🙏🏾

It’s today! TCU’s LCpl Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium, which will focus on America’s Revolutionary War. Sarah Botstein of Florentine Films will join us tonight…more tomorrow!! Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center Presentation at 7:00, followed by a book signing and dessert reception. See you there!

I’m really excited for this symposium to start tomorrow. Thank you to @karadixonvuic.bsky.social and TCU for having me.

In one week, join us at TCU’s LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium! We’ve got a great lineup for some smart conversations about the meanings and costs of America’s Revolutionary War.

💜 One month from today! 💜

Two Months and Counting to the 2026 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium at TCU! 💜 We have an outstanding lineup and look forward to important conversations about America's Revolutionary War. RSVP here: addran.tcu.edu/history/stud...

In time for the holidays, now pre-orderable, the long awaited Oxford Handbook of American Military History, edited by Sam Watson. 32 chapters by top scholars in the field, including @bethbailey.bsky.social , @notabattlechick.bsky.social , @karadixonvuic.bsky.social, yours truly, and many more.

TCU's History Department is honored to have been named a DPAA partner and to support the mission of accounting for the missing, including several of our own Horned Frogs. 💜 addran.tcu.edu/stories/post...

On TCU Gives Day, help fulfill the mission of the LCPL Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium on War, Conflict, and Society. Featuring the world’s leading scholars, the symposium is held on campus each spring and airs nationally on C-SPAN. Every gift counts and allows us to fulfill this mission. 💜

Come work at TCU! Who doesn’t want to be a Horned Frog?!? 💜

From #AHAPerspectives in 2022: In 1970, US Air Force nurse Susan Struck had to choose between an abortion or losing her job. @karadixonvuic.bsky.social writes about how including the military in our histories of abortion complicate the story of "choice" today. 🗃️

Give #VietnamWar scholars & accounts a follow! If you study the Vietnam War, pls. comment so we can follow you! #skystorians @jasonhiggins.bsky.social @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social @karadixonvuic.bsky.social @amyjay401.bsky.social @gregorydaddis.bsky.social @drrobthompson.com @sarahking.bsky.social

Pls repost. Help! Picking books for a US women's hist survey. What excellent memoirs get at the 1960s/70s? So far, I'm def using Moody's Coming of Age in MS and VanDevanter's Home Before Morning. What else? 🗃️ @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @thewphp.bsky.social

Today is the day! Join us tonight for the LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium at TCU, featuring Robert K. Brigham, who will deliver a riveting true war story about the Vietnam War. Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center Reception at 6:00 Lecture at 6:45, followed by a book signing. See you there!

💜 The 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium is ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!! Come to hear @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of Vassar College, who will place the war’s costs and legacies at the center of a story that follows American Marines at Hue, everyday folks in upstate New York, and policymakers in DC

💜⭐ 2 WEEKS! ⭐💜 We're only 2 weeks away from the 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium at TCU! We're excited to welcome @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of @vassar.bsky.social who will bring us a gripping story about the lasting costs of war. Free and open to the public--everyone is welcome.

Congratulations to TCU grad student Jack Emery who won a Nazi-era Provenance Research Grant, awarded by the Christie's Foundation, for his work on the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives officers’ activities in Asia at the end of WWII. christies.shorthandstories.com/reflect.../i...

Postdoc Fellowship Alert! The TCU History Department is accepting applications for a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow. Do meaningful work with the DPAA, gain teaching experience, and be around great people at TCU! jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

The final episode of History Frogcast Season 3 is out! Listen in as Mikaela explores the solemn work of the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency. Among the more than 80,000 missing servicemembers that DPAA seeks to bring home is Korean War Airman and Horned Frog Howard Algernon Wilson, Jr.

Postdoc Fellowship Alert! The TCU History Department is accepting applications for a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow. Do meaningful work with the DPAA, gain teaching experience, and be around great people at TCU! jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

💜 The 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium is only 4 weeks away!! Come to hear @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of Vassar College, who will place the war’s costs and legacies at the center of a story that follows American Marines at Hue, everyday folks in upstate New York, and policymakers in DC.

We all know the Medal of Honor, but who are the people who wear it? What are their stories, and what does the medal mean to them? Tune in to History Frogcast, as Richard and Ben talk with Kali Schick and Michael Caldwell of the National Medal of Honor Museum, and historian Dr. William A. Taylor.

Check out this episode with the National D-Day Museum and my friend John C. McManus. Hear about amazing women who volunteered to entertain American soldiers at war. These inspiring women were essential to morale and mental health, and they worked under severe pressures. www.dday.org/someone-talk...

For those historians keeping track, esp #milhist folks, “history” is now a flagged word bc of its apparent connection to #DEI. Canary in a coal mine, indeed. @smh-historians.bsky.social 🗃️ www.tpr.org/military-vet...

🎵Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming... This episode of History Frogcast is a special one. Tune in as Samantha and Sabrina speak with TCU's former dean Dr. Andy Schoolmaster about how Americans remember the tragedy of the Kent State shootings.

American museums often celebrate the victories of war, but how do we remember the tragedies, especially the Holocaust of WWII? Tune in to another episode of TCU's History Frogcast as Casey and Sam explore how the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum remembers, commemorates, and educates.

🎵Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?🎵 Tune in to the newest episode of History Frogcast as Ethan and Kevin explore how America remembers and celebrates veteran athletes. Special thanks to Elliot Goldman of the National Leadership Foundation.

Can't wait! Just hope I don't get World War I and the Cold War confused!

Check out "Frontline Angels," episode 3 of History Frogcast, which features the story of #WWII Army Nurse Lt. Dorothy Delmar, who helped evacuate casualties from the Normandy Invasion. It's an inspiring story for all of us As Gabby and Emilia put it, Lt. Delmar is a "girl boss."

Next week!! Can’t wait!

Congratulations to @TCU History PhD student Riley Ford, recipient of the 2025 Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize from @editorial-notes.bsky.social! Riley's dissertation bridges women's and gender, military, and immigration history. The prize will assist her research on Japanese and Korean "war brides."

While we’re montaging, here are some titles on women’s military history: Leisa Meyer’s Creating GI Jane cup.columbia.edu/book/creatin... #HATM

Frogs Never Quit! Check out the incredible story of TCU's own #MedalofHonor recipient, Horace Carswell, Jr. as Andrew and Cade explore how we remember--and forget--legendary people.

History Frogcast Season 3, Episode 1 is out! Tune in as Anna Claire and Lizbeth explore the meaning of war memorials on college campuses, beginning with TCU's own Veterans Plaza! Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.💜

Welcome back, History Frogcast fans! HistoryFrogcast is entirely produced by TCU students, with Season 3 exploring how Americans remember (and forget) wars. Season 3 begins dropping tomorrow, so stay tuned!

Seriously, apply. Best conference I’ve ever attended - it was fun, informative, helpful to my dissertation, and an excellent way to make connections outside my geographic area. 🗃️

Again, women are key.

Join us in April 2025 for the 1st of 3 events funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social via @sshmedicine.bsky.social The first being hosted by the Uni of Birmingham (UK) and also supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social A keynote by Brian K. Feltman of @mhptpodcast.bsky.social #milwelfhist #WW1 #FWW

Several amazing people will receive the Presidential Citizens Medal tonight, including Diane Carlson Evans, a Vietnam War Army nurse who led the effort to build the Vietnam Women’s Memorial, still the only memorial to women on the National Mall.

The SMH is here! And if you happen to be a woman, look out for the Women’s Happy Hour at the conference!

On #GivingTuesday, consider helping to endow the LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium on War, Conflict, and Society, an annual symposium that examines the causes, experiences, and costs of war. It's named in memory of a TCU student and Marine who loved history and planned to be a professor.

Def spending more time than I should on this fascinating #civmil #milhist #milsky 🧵. @vasabjit.bsky.social @rwpallas.bsky.social @brasidas.bsky.social all say important things, but I also want to add some ideas from my own research - a 🧵 1/

Today is official pub day for my new book _Dread Danger_! Available from Cambridge University Press via this link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

Not an exhaustive list, but we're all likely exhausted.

Great group of scholars is here!!

Happy to contribute to this piece in what the SecDef nominee gets wrong about women in the military, by Mariel Padilla 19thnews.org/2024/11/wome...