Rick Herrera | herreramilhist.bsky.social
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Military history | Early & 19c America | Author | Retired Professor @ArmyWarCollege | Californian | My views mine | https://www.amazon.com/author/raherrera
Conflict archaeology, George Washington, and not-so-friendly fire. @SMH_Historians @GWBooks nytimes.com/2025/07/15/art…
Historian of Reconstruction here, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is emerging as the great dissenter in the tradition of John Marshall Harlan. Her opinions will be read long after Amy Coney Barrett is a mere footnote in history. nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/…
By my former teaching partner, Col. Rodrigo de Almeida Paim, PhD, Brazilian Army. Parabéns! @SMH_Historians @us_awc "The Legacies of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force: Influences on Brazil’s National Defense Agenda." armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Milit…
Corner of a hand-stitched sail from the 1800s. Every warship had a sailmaker who played a vital role in making and maintaining the huge number of sails required to power the ship in all weathers. #Ageofsail #RoyalNavy #Tallships
History is uncomfortable. If you want feel good stories you don't want history, you want heritage. The past, like the present, and the future is, was, and will be uncomfortable. Teaching with Integrity: Historians Speak youtu.be/LdcoBQy41zI?si… via @YouTube
If only there was some kind of government agency assigned to monitor and give advance warning. Something like a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That would be a great agency to fund well and never gut it's funding to give early warning to save lives in these…
🇺🇸 Today at Mount Vernon, we proudly welcomed over 100 new U.S. citizens at our annual July 4 naturalization ceremony, which featured a keynote address from Arnold Schwarzenegger. He said it best: George Washington was America’s first action hero. 💥🦅 It was a day of…
phenomenal movie... only natural/ available lighting ; hard to think of another movie that gets inside the period so deeply. Ryan O'Neill though ( sigh) . Leonard Rossiter wonderful. the Thackeray book rather wonderful too tho v tongue in cheek;Kubrick makes it more profound
Stanley Kubrick's 1975 timeless classic is arriving elegantly back in cinemas in 4K to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary this year. Barry Lyndon is released back into select cinemas in 4K worldwide from 18th July courtesy of @ParkCircusFilms & @warnerbros. Check local…
This was fun. Thank you @lmchervinsky, Kate Lemay, & @GWBooks @us_awc @ArmyHeritage Ford Evening Book Talk: Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Washington ... youtube.com/live/XyWlKicR1… via @YouTube
A civ-mil to start the day! Well done, Rob Williams! @SMH_Historians armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Milit…
The Age of Forever Wars foreignaffairs.com/age-forever-wa… via @ForeignAffairs
Our take on the Battle of Charleston 28 June 1776. morethannelson.com/the-attack-on-…
And this. Just because 😂 tiktok.com/@ogflashbackfi…
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Historically accurate depiction of the Revolutionary War
Pauline is the real thing. Character and courage.
Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Five things to remember about war: 1. Many things reported with confidence in the first hours and days will turn out not to be true 2. Whatever they say, the people who start wars are often thinking chiefly about domestic politics 3. The rationale given for a war will change…