Today is Memorial Day. Expert James M. Lindsay commemorates the holiday by sharing the story of a citizen of Mexico who volunteered to serve as a U.S. Marine and "made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam."

🪖📚 NEW: "The emotional politics of sovereignty: On dignity, state personhood, and kidnappings" from @nckc.bsky.social & @minseonku.bsky.social. 👉 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historical context!

‘Tis the season for applications to the 2026 cohort of @columbiasipa.bsky.social Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS). Ithaca truly is GORGES during the summer and presents a welcome reprieve to serious debates on the roles of military operations & strategy

CFR President Michael Froman reflects on this year’s Munich Security Conference:

Really enjoyed seeing the results of this survey of @shafrhistorians.bsky.social! The folks @cfr.org turned the lists into a great teaching resource, and I'm honored to have my book included in the section on the Cuban Missile Crisis! #History 🗃️ www.cfr.org/ten-best-ten...

This week, Historians At The Movies gets to talk about the South, Jim Crow, the Klan, music, and motherlovin’ VAMPIRES. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday, January 18th at 8pm eastern for SINNERS. Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!

Your friendly independent bookstore breaking into your timeline to tell you to take a couple hours this weekend, put your phone in like, a box, or something & read a book. All of this <waves hand> will be here when you come back.

Headed to Chicago this week? Check out these panels made by and for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social #AHA2026

Check out the Week that Was, a roundup of Lawfare's articles and podcasts of the past week, compiled by Isabel Arroyo.

I am pleased to share my dual review of Roady & Preston’s recent histories examining FDR’s New Deal & national security. My thanks to the @lawfaremedia.org editorial team for their guidance and to @mbrenes.bsky.social for his early support.

Happy #TheMightyNein on Prime to all those who celebrate 🎉 The chaotic band of 🌊 🍭 👊 🐈 🥃 🌙 🗡️ 🍄 ⏳ introduced me to #CriticalRole and showed how TTRPGs can shift our approach to teaching & framing international relations for the public good 🌎 🙌 #IsItWednesdayYet

Whenever I assist an intrepid traveler navigate the MBTA, I often want to say, “Good journey, adventurer”

OK #BookSky, here it is, our first micro-course on close reading! We’re hoping to help you slow down, have deeper & richer reading experiences, & spend some time enjoying one of the cool things your brain can do. This 1st one is definitely designed as an intro. Read on! 1/5

Just in time for my birthday today, the NYT publishes my list of climate novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b...

A contemporary IR classic returns - the Paul Poast threads/“lectures” 🎉

If you find yourself this afternoon at Day 2 of #SHAFR2025, come on by Studio D from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm for an incredible lightning round of research from rising junior scholars @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

It’s only the first day of #SHAFR2025 but I confirmed @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social is indeed THE Brad Simpson in this 2002 NYT letter to the editor. The more you know 💫 @shafrhistorians.bsky.social Kissinger: Right Man for the Job? www.nytimes.com/2002/11/30/o...

Having seen this special exhibition 🌟 at the Morgan Library, I cannot recommend it enough! Bella da Costa Greene truly was a remarkable historical figure

Came home from training to find a package…The Rivalry Peril uncorrected proof! Pre-order now!

The Legal History Blog -- the essential source for news related to the field, including publications, conferences & all the rest -- is now on Bluesky! Give them a follow: @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social!

The Students Have Never Been the Enemy   Student protest movements have historically functioned as an indispensable corrective for America and the West. That is the legacy of 1968 we should be talking about.   New piece:

H-Diplo|RJISSF Commentary II-4: @seanmcase.bsky.social 's "Kissinger and the Angel of Applied History” "These obituaries and memorials collectively omit one of Kissinger’s most enduring policy legacies: his self- perception as a historian" issforum.org/commentary/h...

So much of the coverage about the Israel-Gaza war is about how we talk about the war rather than the war itself

Congratulations to all AHA book prize winners!

Heartbreaking stories of Afghan families being torn apart as Pakistan forcibly expels up to 1 million Afghans, many of whom were born in Pakistan and have spent their entire lives there. Cruel dilemma: hide in the shadows and hope to avoid getting caught, or go to Taliban Afghanistan?

Some exciting recently released/declassified docs on the National Security Archive site from the records of Ambassador Gerard C. Smith shed additional light on the 1977 discovery of South Africa's nuclear testing site, and the reactions/diplomacy between the US and USSR over that discovery. 🗃️

Are we at nothing but Bluesky yet?