Little known fact: Although much has been written about America's PAST treatment of Black veterans, few people are aware that tens of thousands of Black people who served in the US Armed Forces are technically and legally excluded from Veterans Day. A thread (and a story)

Do Americans Value Democracy?   A deep dive into the latest survey data on the ideas and attitudes that shape the political conflict in the United States. Spoiler alert: The results aren’t exactly encouraging…   A thread, based on my new piece (link below and in bio):   🧵 1/

The war is tough. And the mood in Kyiv reflects the reality. Yesterday, the Kyiv School of Economics held its annual fundraiser. Many influential people attended: 7 ministers, many from the Ukrainian Forbes list. I spoke to them privately. And this is what they said. 1/

This bad boy by amazing historian and even more amazing human being Dr. Adam A. Blackler arrived today. So happy to finally have it in hand. And so proud of him. It’s an honor to call him my friend.

Britain tried to mass produce a wool fiber substitute made from peanuts in the 1950s?!

It was #otd in 1943 that the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial church was hit by the RAF in WW2. Here's a video I shot about this back in April. There's a chance that the chap whose grave I visited today, killed in that same air raid, dropped the bomb that hit it.

Sadly, this is what the public face of the American historical profession has become - and what the dominant form of “public history” has turned into: MSNBC-aspirant political analysis. EP Thompson would be rolling in his grave.

Outstanding. 10/10. No notes.

I am not a fan of the office of the university president, which exists to do the bidding of trustees and undermine faculty governance but what’s going is nuts. That Gordon Gee is still running WVU but Liz Magill is out at Penn tells you everything about how f’d higher ed is.

Putin's appeasers promise that Russia will stop as soon as Ukraine surrenders cities like Kherson and Zaporizhzia and disarms itself. One may wonder why Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs would introduce a new license plate area code – 188 RUS – for the entire Kharkiv region.

Many thanks to the designers Cornell University Press for producing this amazing cover! Can't wait to share the book with you this June 📚

I am extremely excited to share the cover design for my forthcoming monograph "Ujamaa's Army: the Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964-1979" which should be in print around the middle of this year from the University of Ohio Press!

My book is coming out in three months and I am grateful and humbled by the early reviews from a number of amazing scholars whose work has been a huge source of inspiration for me. You can pre-order it here: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kim-a-w…

It’s out! 🎉 With a brilliant foreword by Alessandro Portelli, my book analyses how memory of the 1973 Rogo di Primavalle has been constructed & contested from the time of the attack to today (spoiler: Meloni is big on it). Available in soft back, too! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Do you have a podcast related to military history, counterinsurgency, or decolonization? Are you interested in the Algerian War? Do you want the hot gossip on which French military theorist is the biggest fraud*? I would love to join you to talk about my book! *still Galula

Shooting just happened at The Trump rally

The emotional whiplash between Joe's withdrawal on Saturday, to realizing we're going to elect the 1st woman of color as our next President is probably closest you'll ever get to knowing what it feels like to make the jump to hyper-space. 🤯