That's William W. Belknap in the photo. And his story has much to say about whether it's constitutional to impeach Trump now that he has left office? The short answer is: Yep.To begin with,...
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Yet another lament for the supposed demise of academic military history has appeared, this time from the pen of the distinguished military historian Max Hastings. These op-eds appear every ...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2021/02/sounding-taps-for-military-history-again.html
The following is a re-printed post I published twelve years ago, back when this blog was in its infancy and entitled Interrogating the Project of Military History. The post was originally e...
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My friend and colleague Pete Mansoor, a retired Army colonel, has just completed a series of interviews with CNN, MSNBC, and other outlets. Pete is a life-long Republican. In all of of these inte...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2016/06/retired-colonel-peter-mansoor-lifelong.html
Recently a graduate student sent an email telling me that my online essay "Why Military History Sucks" was on her reading list but that she couldn't find it on the Internet. (My university ...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2016/06/why-military-history-sucked.html
Cross-posted from Sibling Rivalry By Scott Grimsley Honoring Our Dead With Taking Chance As anyone who knows him can attest, my brother Mark loves movies. His DVD collection is, to say the ...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2016/05/finding-common-ground.html
Today is Memorial Day. Two years ago I took my daughter Chloe to a Memorial Day parade and tried to give her some idea of what it was about, but as she was just 2 1/2 years old I naturally had li...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-impact-of-taking-chance.html
Reprinted with permission of World War II magazine At noon on August 15, 1945, millions across Japan craned their ears to radios, listening in amazement to their emperor’s voice, reproduced on ...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2016/05/enduring-unendurable-japans-longest-day.html
Reprinted with permission of World War II Magazine Mrs. Miniver tells the story of life in the U.K. 1939-1941 experienced, as the opening crawl explains, by an “average English middle cl...
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Millions of American love the Civil War. Last summer I began work on “American Iliad,” a new regular column in The Civil War Monitor that examines one of the major reasons that they do. Some ...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2016/05/american-iliad-sword-of-general-lee.html
Almost three years ago I wrote a post on my encounter with a man who had grown up during the civil war in El Salvador (1979-1992). I entitled it Los Hombres Armados. I could be conten...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2016/05/los-hombres-armados-redux.html
Originally published in World War II magazine. Reprinted with permission. We’ve all attended this meeting, convened by the leadership to discuss some new organizational undertaking and—...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-meeting-from-hell-conspiracy.html
Cross posted from Civil Warriors As surely you already know, in the wake of the murder of nine worshipers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, a petition w...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-rout-of-confederate-flag.html
From (for some bizarre reason) FoxSports, written by one Clay Travis and entitled, "On the Confederate Flag." Travis begins: Only in modern day America could a racist psychopath kill nine people ...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2015/06/sense-and-nonsense-mostly-nonsense.html
These were my opening remarks at an Organization of American Historians Round Table Session (commissioned by the Program Committee) at the OAH Annual Meeting in Saint Louis back in mid-April. My ...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2015/05/state-of-field-military-historyhistory.html
It is a huge lecture hall. An image saying “Speak truth to the powerless” dominates the screen. Patton emerges from his grave. Be paupers. Now I want you to remember that few PhDs...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2015/05/patton-explains-academe.html
A guest post by Dr. Frank Blazich., Naval History and Heritage Command. The views expressed in this post are his alone, not those of the NHHC, Department of the Navy, or Department of Defens...
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I'll introduce this post by re-printing one I published earlier this month in Civil Warriors, entitled, Civil War Military Historians Are Freaking Out? - Part 1: Recently two “think pieces,” ...
http://warhistorian.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-great-civil-war-historian-freak-out.html
Cross-posted from the Society for Military History blog The Society for Military History has just released a white paper entitled “The Role of Military History in the Contemporary Academy.”&n...
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This article originally appeared in World War II magazine. Reprinted with Permission The next time you’re talking war movie trivia with friends, ask, “Who’s the hero in Sa...
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