And this is why I always sneak a little nerd treat into my footnotes these days, to make a professor smile. Would an AI generator include a reference to Black Adder in their citation? No. Does the reader need a Black Adder reference? I think so.

Those last 52 years were a good run.

When you gotta bring that educational and promotional jazz for your museum to a conference, but you still gotta get that academic bread between the speakers.

You know, you don’t have to rush back to Disney+ just because one concession was made. You could take that cash, get a PBS Passport account, and watch broody British murder mysteries for much cheaper. Just throwing it out there…

Really? Is this an Interwar Period? Because I am deeply curious what war is coming up next. Also, we have tickets for symposium available. Be there or be square. www.theworldwar.org/symposia

“The purpose of this… is to determine whether commercial grocery operators and investment firms are both interested in and capable of assuming commissary operations, with no government subsidy or with a materially reduced subsidy….” Private investment? Running a crucial benefit? For us? Hmm.

Today. Tomorrow. The next day. Everyday.

Some days the world and the news seems overwhelming. And then I remember that this painting survived two world wars and a massive state-directed art (and artist) purge at the hands of a violent autocratic dictatorship. And it lives a couple miles from my doorstep, freely accessible to the public.

FYSA Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" Just in case.

Words have meaning. Last week, I was lucky to host the US Army IO Qual Course at the museum, where we discussed information advantage in national war museum spaces. A prominent factor was this concept of silences- gaps- in history, influencing HOW we create national narratives about war.

We got speakers, comin’ in hot for your scholarly addictions. *boop* Mark your calendars for the Annual Symposium with the @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social on October 23, 24, and 25. Registration links are hot! www.theworldwar.org/symposia

Honey, wake up! A new “we didn’t know it was Nazi looted art from one of the most well-documented Jewish collections - the historic collection of GOTTDAMM Jacques GOTTDAMM Goudstikker - in Europe” defense just dropped. It is 2025. Hire a f’ing provenance researcher.

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT Not so clumsy, nor so random - As a blaster - in its rage More elegant - the weapon More civilized - the age

The @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social is lucky enough to host the incredible Alex Churchill to talk about her new bestseller on August 23rd at 6:30pm. We’re also having a free reception at 5:30 before the presentation. I mean… all this nerdiness… FOR FREE! *boop* www.theworldwar.org/events/ring-...

Just out here at PAIR Day on Fort Leavenworth, doin’ my nerd thing. Come see us. I’ve got stickers!

Don’t do that. Hurt yourself so good instead! Turn on a US Army Doctrine audio book. *boop* rdl.train.army.mil/catalog-ws/v...

*gestures in the general direction of Linz, Munich, Dresden, Düsseldorf…* It’s time for us to discuss the history Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung and the Entartete Kunstausstellung, because some of y’all need some serious museum educating!!

*diabolically laughs while holding a 13x9 Pyrex dish of extra cheesy, molten hot Tater Tot Casserole aloft* Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.

It also helps to have a crew of family and friends that bolster, feed, tolerate, listen, and love a burgeoning academic and their studies. Luck, funding, and fortitude come from connections to others.

Have you ever walked into an airport lounge and been absolutely convinced that you saw @dogfacesoldier.bsky.social, but you’re so nervous to go ask that you end up conspiracy-texting with friends, never work up the courage, and end up working on homework at the bar instead? No? Just me? Cool. Cool.

**warning: nondoctrinal #cookingforlieutenants content** CFL is life. Share this content with your company-grade officers today!

As someone who uses FRUs and other collections with the Dept of State Historian and HAC, this is a significant blow to our diplomatic history. The actions that underpin our nation’s diplomacy are worthy of cataloging and care, and the team of historians and archivists behind that work are amazing.

Please don’t lick things in the museum.

The “golden hour” is not realistic for the western Pacific. usni.org/magazines/p...

Dill pickle martinis are a summer drink, and they make writing about degenerate art and the Interwar period better. It’s science.

Just sitting here at @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social, with my notes for yet another obscure WWI Gatsby factoid, giving away my human juice for free… You’ve got another hour or so. You could show up, give them some of your human juice, get a cookie, and a free ticket to the museum. Just sayin’!

To sweeten the deal… If you donate blood with us tomorrow (walk-in is fine, sign up is better), you get a FREE admission to the museum. All of this museum. FOR FREE. There will probably be cookies and juice. And European artillery pieces! What more do you want?

**warning: nondoctrinal massive guilt content** Once a quarter, the @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social hosts a local blood drive on the grounds. Tomorrow is our spring donation day! I will be there. Even though I HATE needles. If I can do it… www.theworldwar.org/events/save-...

When @finneynk asks if you’d like to join his #CollectiveStorytellingProject, you don’t ask questions. You just do it, and you save the questions for later. Go to a bar. Have a beer. Write. *boop*

How your email finds me.

US Envoys arrived today and are pleading with our leaders to refrain from imposing retaliatory tariffs. We initially denied their pleas until their ambassador returned wearing a suit and thanked us for existing.

Everyone chirping about bringing back dire wolves, when we really should be bringing back this absolute scholarly and literary unit.

Partners and Allies. Lithuanians recognizing and honoring the service of young American soldiers. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Dr. Lauren Benton, if you’re out there in the digital ether, I just want to say that I’m one chapter in and I love your book. Also, I haven’t left pajamas or the couch yet because of it.

Archive and artifact digitization is crucial to expanding access and creating new scholarship about war. Join me in contacting congressional leadership about vital cuts to vital funding and grants, especially in KCKS and KCMO. www.kcur.org/arts-life/20...

Dear Director of Joint Force Development, I, a woman who wrote and advocated for the use of military doctrine, would love to be able to reference current joint doctrine and terms while developing lesson plans for military professionals at my war museum. UN. Classified. Doctrine.

We're having a flash sale! Today and tomorrow only, save 50% on all books & journal issues. Use coupon FLASH50 to save. buff.ly/ist96Uj

It probably never occurred to Alan Turing to just ask the Wehrmacht to add Bletchley Park to the Enigma group chat.

If you text me an OPLAN, I will text you screen shots of doctrine and critique your mission statement. For free. Soldier for life.

Post a warning, you ask?! *boop*

Wake up, baby. There’s a new FM 3-0 for everyone to claim they’ve read but never actually get beyond the logic chart in the front.

Don’t mind me. I’m just gonna scootch right by ya and… *ope*… set this right here. We have a Call for Papers and Proposals up on our website for this year’s Symposium for the @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social. www.theworldwar.org/symposia#apply

Your legacy isn’t gifting an artwork to a collection. The legacy is the paperwork that makes the gift (or sale) legit. Documents go missing. Paperwork gets lost. Records get deleted. Provenance researchers are vital to curation, ensuring transparency through investigation, evidence, and context.

Please don’t debase yourself with green beer and shamrocks. Look at this instead. It’s Lady Elizabeth Butler’s 1878 “Listed for the Connaught Rangers,” depicting two Irish farm workers being marched out of a Kerry glen by a British recruiting party. From the Bury Museum in Manchester.

This week, the Royal Historical Society issued calls for its next round of research funding. Applications now invited for: - Postgraduate Research Support Grants - Early Career Research Support Grants - Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History Further details bit.ly/3ZnsQhv. #Skystorians

**warning: non doctrinal, exhausted veteran content** You’re not getting beards, guys. Love some of you to bits, but you aren’t. They’re restricting shaving profiles, which predominantly impacts Black service members.

Did you break your kneecap just in time for spring break, forcing you to cancel your archive visit to the Smithsonian? Have you found yourself desk-bound for the next few weeks, trapped in a brace with a whole a** leg that barely works? At least it’s Fish Doorbell Season again. visdeurbel.nl/en/

et al.: *self-censored* or *officially redacted* le moi: *spirals* Maybe studying and writing about the 1937 Entartete Kunst exhibitions in Germany was not my best idea for this semester? the ghost of Otto Dix: Ja, sie haben eine fragwürdige Lebensentscheidung getroffen

In my Museum Studies MA program, I couldn’t advocate enough for my classmates to consider federal jobs in curation, interpretation, and conservation. I won’t repeat that with fellow PhD students. I will not serve brilliant minds up as fodder for cruelty or pettiness. apnews.com/article/trum...