Regime Change in Iran, Underpants Gnomes, and the Phase II Problem U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started the Iran war off with a bang — not just the bang of bombs and rockets,

@warontherocks.bsky.social is a fantastic place to get cogent commentary. But also, I’m really appreciating the cogent nature of this headline - “Regime Change in Iran, Underpants Gnomes, and the Phase II Problem” warontherocks.com/regime-chang...

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

Coming soon! My (and friends') new book: link.springer.com/book/9783032.... Enjoy #milwelfhist #military #welfare

Teaching a course on the Vietnam War this semester has been crazy. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution the day after the bombing started; My Lai and the laws of war as the Commander in Chief threatens war crimes; and now this on the morning I’m teaching the GI Movement. 🗃️🗺️ www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

Yes! And special mention to his Uncertain Warriors, though it’s about the 1990s.

Beth Bailey, America’s Army
Jennifer Mittelstadt, The Military Welfare State
Brian Linn, Real Soldiering
All top notch

Thank you!

Cover for the book Military welfare History since the 18th century. Black and white etching of a nurse helping wounded soldiers on top and photo of a WWI canteen girl helping sailors below.

Cover reveal! Due out in September 🗃️

That’s the one! Thank you!!!

Yes!!! Thank you!

Help #skystorians: a wonderful book came out a few years ago that connected the country music industry to the Vietnam war. I need to recommend it to a student, but for the life of me I can’t remember either the title or the author, and it’s not coming up in my scholar searches. What was it? 🗃️

A photo of two orange cats sitting upright on top of a refrigerator. The neon the left is a real cat and the one in the right is a Lego build.

Biff and Buford wish everyone a happy #lego #caturday. But who is who?

Danielle McGuire’s At the Dark End of the Street and Cathleen Cahill’s Recasting the Vote are in heavy teaching rotation. Shout out to Beth Bailey’s chapter on recruiting women in America’s Army and Leisa Meyer’s Creating GI Jane for how I think about what I do.

Second. It overturned a lot of my students’ misperceptions.

Excited for this wonderful collection to see the light of day. Fantastic work from all involved, especially @paulhuddie.bsky.social and @emmahuddlestone.bsky.social 🗃️

Happy Passover to all who celebrate. This year, may we all find ways, large and small, to bring peace and freedom to those who most need it.

Yesterday I got to enjoy @meganahamilton.bsky.social's excellent paper on learning and innovation in the SWW. Today I'm listening to @milhistcurator.bsky.social , @mhptpodcast.bsky.social and @amyjay401.bsky.social on making military history accessible and connecting people with the past #SMH2026

Opinion | Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran

As always, seriously great writing from Phil Klay. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

I read the ENTIRE Flowers in the Attic series. Child imprisonment, death, and incest. Somehow I managed to turn out okay. Let the readers read.

I’ve only been affiliated with the National Women’s History Museum for a bit, but I believe in its mission of telling (in the words of Meryl Streep) “a history that is both truthful and complete.” Also, I’m now only one degree of separation from Ms. Streep 😁)
www.womenshistory.org/news/meryl-s...

Assistant Teaching Professor of History Position Title: Assistant Teaching Professor of History Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: The Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University invite...

Friday evening news drop: Iowa State department of history is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Modern European History. 3/3 load, 3-year contract, possibility of renewal. Come be my colleague! 🗃️ isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

A large crowd of people looking toward a stage.

Tonight’s pinprick of hope: This is only a fraction of the standing-room crowd at a protest-song fundraiser for the Iowa Migrant Movent for Justice in central Iowa. A cross-generational crowd on a Wednesday night, no less.

Immigration attorney lets us know what's going on in Minnesota. Grim, indeed. Thread!

Postdoc Research Associate - Center for Cyclone Civics Position Title: Postdoc Research Associate - Center for Cyclone Civics Appointment Type: Post Doc/Trainee Job Description: Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: Assist the leadership of the Center f...

Post-doc in civic education at Iowa State University. Come work with me. I have nothing to do with hiring for thisnposition, but I’d love to see someone with social studies teaching experience in it 🗺️🗃️ isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...

The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.

Another awesome research and teaching resource just gone 🗃️🗺️ www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

And the information was always meant to be public, per the medium. No it will be behind a FOIA request.

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.

This seems not great 🗃️ www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

This is kind of amazing.

For history and gov’t teachers: National Bar Association/Federal Judicial Center, National WWII museum, National WWI museum, USS Midway Museum, USS Intrepid. There are definitely others, but this is off the top of my head. 🗺️🗃️