Honored to share that part 1 (of 2) of a display I curated of the WWII segregated Air Base Security Battalions has been beautifully funded and created by the Air Force Security Forces Foundation. The first part is on display already at the Air Force Security Forces Museum at Lackland AFB!
Thrilled to have an opportunity to present this year at SMH 2026!
When visiting home for Christmas and your mother randomly asks if you want the copy of the Nixon Tapes transcripts from Watergate she’s had since 1974….
Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter, whose book A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865 was published by UNC Press last month!
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After action reports are a fascinating window into culture. Comparing the results of a successful mortar and penetration (sappers) attack against Bien Hoa Air Base in RVN by the NLF in Oct 1966 against the air forces self assessment of its defense forces is striking.
Great opportunity to discuss public history and public archaeology with the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation today at their Tribal Center near Burlington, NC. And a treat to view the collection of artifacts from the late John Blackfeather. #UNC #UNCHistory #UNCAnthropology
Many thanks, @pasuth.info!
States-in-Waiting is just now out in paperback while remaining open access through Cambridge core.
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Spooky season Carl!
Overjoyed to donate a 1944 anniversary gala pamphlet for the 920th Air Base Security BN to the USAF Security Forces Museum and coordinate on a future public history display. The Gala was on Bougainville and commemorates those awarded for heroism in the Battle of Torokina Perimeter.
#militaryhistory
Beautiful day for some archaeological surveys in Hillsborough, NC with UNC’s anthropology department. Using Ground Penetrating Radar to survey for possible colonial era archaeological sites. #UNC #History
I have finally injected sufficient Airpower History propaganda into the UNC History Department’s Military History Graduate Student offices… I was surrounded by too many Civil War posters for my liking.
(The knitted roundel was a gift from one of my students)
The joys of grad school apartments. No space for more bookshelves in the “library” so the living room is rapidly become the painfully unorganized overflow for new bookshel(ves)…
Oh that’s awesome! Can’t wait!
Any teasers on topic?!
Out soon … 🥸
UNUM on the Road continued last week in North Carolina with historian @kathleenduval.bsky.social
A featured voice in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION and recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Professor DuVal explores how disputes over Native land helped ignite the Revolutionary War.
I’m praying there is
With Rogers as not-titled comic relief “Bernie” in the back of the studio
Such an incredible week at the Second World War Research Group annual conference in London. So many phenomenal scholars and such an incredibly well run conference! Big thanks to both for allowing me to share my research!
Great kick off to the international Second World War Research Group annual conference last night with panel of stars discussing evolution of historiography, key emerging themes, and future of global histories of WWII. 27 countries and 120+ institutions represented.
Congrats!
Huzzah to the 2025 @smh-historians.bsky.social distinguished book award winner and incoming president @milhistlee.bsky.social! @uncpress.bsky.social
I laughed way too hard…
I’m thrilled to share that Native Nations has won the Bancroft Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...
Congratulations!!!!
Thanks @loyolachicago.bsky.social History Department for a phenomenal conference and providing me the opportunity to present my research on Air Base Security Battalions of World War II and the lessons lost due to their invisibility to history.
