Kara Dixon Vuic
@karadixonvuic.bsky.social
Historian of war and society @TCU. Author of “The Girls Next Door” and “Officer Nurse Woman”. Working on “Drafting Women”
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In time for the holidays, now pre-orderable, the long awaited Oxford Handbook of American Military History, edited by Sam Watson. 32 chapters by top scholars in the field, including @bethbailey.bsky.social , @notabattlechick.bsky.social , @karadixonvuic.bsky.social, yours truly, and many more.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In time for the holidays, now pre-orderable, the long awaited Oxford Handbook of American Military History, edited by Sam Watson. 32 chapters by top scholars in the field, including @bethbailey.bsky.social , @notabattlechick.bsky.social , @karadixonvuic.bsky.social, yours truly, and many more.
TCU's History Department is honored to have been named a DPAA partner and to support the mission of accounting for the missing, including several of our own Horned Frogs. 💜
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History Department Named Partner in National POW-MIA Research Program
The Department of History in the AddRan College of Liberal Arts has been named a partner in the Department of Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency’s (DPAA) Hub and Spoke program.
addran.tcu.edu
October 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
TCU's History Department is honored to have been named a DPAA partner and to support the mission of accounting for the missing, including several of our own Horned Frogs. 💜
addran.tcu.edu/stories/post...
addran.tcu.edu/stories/post...
On TCU Gives Day, help fulfill the mission of the LCPL Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium on War, Conflict, and Society.
Featuring the world’s leading scholars, the symposium is held on campus each spring and airs nationally on C-SPAN.
Every gift counts and allows us to fulfill this mission. 💜
Featuring the world’s leading scholars, the symposium is held on campus each spring and airs nationally on C-SPAN.
Every gift counts and allows us to fulfill this mission. 💜
October 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
On TCU Gives Day, help fulfill the mission of the LCPL Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium on War, Conflict, and Society.
Featuring the world’s leading scholars, the symposium is held on campus each spring and airs nationally on C-SPAN.
Every gift counts and allows us to fulfill this mission. 💜
Featuring the world’s leading scholars, the symposium is held on campus each spring and airs nationally on C-SPAN.
Every gift counts and allows us to fulfill this mission. 💜
Come work at TCU! Who doesn’t want to be a Horned Frog?!? 💜
***Job Opportunity***
Associate/Full Professor and Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History
AddRan College, Texas Christian University
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Associate/Full Professor and Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History
AddRan College, Texas Christian University
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jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/associa...
September 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Come work at TCU! Who doesn’t want to be a Horned Frog?!? 💜
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From #AHAPerspectives in 2022: In 1970, US Air Force nurse Susan Struck had to choose between an abortion or losing her job. @karadixonvuic.bsky.social writes about how including the military in our histories of abortion complicate the story of "choice" today. 🗃️
The Better Roe – AHA
When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light.
www.historians.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
From #AHAPerspectives in 2022: In 1970, US Air Force nurse Susan Struck had to choose between an abortion or losing her job. @karadixonvuic.bsky.social writes about how including the military in our histories of abortion complicate the story of "choice" today. 🗃️
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Give #VietnamWar scholars & accounts a follow! If you study the Vietnam War, pls. comment so we can follow you! #skystorians
@jasonhiggins.bsky.social
@mikekoncewicz.bsky.social
@karadixonvuic.bsky.social
@amyjay401.bsky.social
@gregorydaddis.bsky.social
@drrobthompson.com
@sarahking.bsky.social
@jasonhiggins.bsky.social
@mikekoncewicz.bsky.social
@karadixonvuic.bsky.social
@amyjay401.bsky.social
@gregorydaddis.bsky.social
@drrobthompson.com
@sarahking.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Give #VietnamWar scholars & accounts a follow! If you study the Vietnam War, pls. comment so we can follow you! #skystorians
@jasonhiggins.bsky.social
@mikekoncewicz.bsky.social
@karadixonvuic.bsky.social
@amyjay401.bsky.social
@gregorydaddis.bsky.social
@drrobthompson.com
@sarahking.bsky.social
@jasonhiggins.bsky.social
@mikekoncewicz.bsky.social
@karadixonvuic.bsky.social
@amyjay401.bsky.social
@gregorydaddis.bsky.social
@drrobthompson.com
@sarahking.bsky.social
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Pls repost. Help! Picking books for a US women's hist survey. What excellent memoirs get at the 1960s/70s? So far, I'm def using Moody's Coming of Age in MS and VanDevanter's Home Before Morning. What else? 🗃️ @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @thewphp.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Pls repost. Help! Picking books for a US women's hist survey. What excellent memoirs get at the 1960s/70s? So far, I'm def using Moody's Coming of Age in MS and VanDevanter's Home Before Morning. What else? 🗃️ @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @thewphp.bsky.social
Today is the day! Join us tonight for the LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium at TCU, featuring Robert K. Brigham, who will deliver a riveting true war story about the Vietnam War.
Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center
Reception at 6:00
Lecture at 6:45, followed by a book signing.
See you there!
Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center
Reception at 6:00
Lecture at 6:45, followed by a book signing.
See you there!
April 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Today is the day! Join us tonight for the LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium at TCU, featuring Robert K. Brigham, who will deliver a riveting true war story about the Vietnam War.
Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center
Reception at 6:00
Lecture at 6:45, followed by a book signing.
See you there!
Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center
Reception at 6:00
Lecture at 6:45, followed by a book signing.
See you there!
💜 The 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium is ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!!
Come to hear @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of Vassar College, who will place the war’s costs and legacies at the center of a story that follows American Marines at Hue, everyday folks in upstate New York, and policymakers in DC
Come to hear @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of Vassar College, who will place the war’s costs and legacies at the center of a story that follows American Marines at Hue, everyday folks in upstate New York, and policymakers in DC
March 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
💜 The 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium is ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!!
Come to hear @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of Vassar College, who will place the war’s costs and legacies at the center of a story that follows American Marines at Hue, everyday folks in upstate New York, and policymakers in DC
Come to hear @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of Vassar College, who will place the war’s costs and legacies at the center of a story that follows American Marines at Hue, everyday folks in upstate New York, and policymakers in DC
💜⭐ 2 WEEKS! ⭐💜
We're only 2 weeks away from the 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium at TCU!
We're excited to welcome @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of @vassar.bsky.social who will bring us a gripping story about the lasting costs of war.
Free and open to the public--everyone is welcome.
We're only 2 weeks away from the 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium at TCU!
We're excited to welcome @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of @vassar.bsky.social who will bring us a gripping story about the lasting costs of war.
Free and open to the public--everyone is welcome.
March 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
💜⭐ 2 WEEKS! ⭐💜
We're only 2 weeks away from the 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium at TCU!
We're excited to welcome @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of @vassar.bsky.social who will bring us a gripping story about the lasting costs of war.
Free and open to the public--everyone is welcome.
We're only 2 weeks away from the 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium at TCU!
We're excited to welcome @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of @vassar.bsky.social who will bring us a gripping story about the lasting costs of war.
Free and open to the public--everyone is welcome.
Congratulations to TCU grad student Jack Emery who won a Nazi-era Provenance Research Grant, awarded by the Christie's Foundation, for his work on the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives officers’ activities in Asia at the end of WWII.
christies.shorthandstories.com/reflect.../i...
christies.shorthandstories.com/reflect.../i...
March 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Congratulations to TCU grad student Jack Emery who won a Nazi-era Provenance Research Grant, awarded by the Christie's Foundation, for his work on the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives officers’ activities in Asia at the end of WWII.
christies.shorthandstories.com/reflect.../i...
christies.shorthandstories.com/reflect.../i...
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Postdoc Fellowship Alert!
The TCU History Department is accepting applications for a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow.
Do meaningful work with the DPAA, gain teaching experience, and be around great people at TCU!
jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
The TCU History Department is accepting applications for a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow.
Do meaningful work with the DPAA, gain teaching experience, and be around great people at TCU!
jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
jobs.tcu.edu
March 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Postdoc Fellowship Alert!
The TCU History Department is accepting applications for a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow.
Do meaningful work with the DPAA, gain teaching experience, and be around great people at TCU!
jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
The TCU History Department is accepting applications for a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow.
Do meaningful work with the DPAA, gain teaching experience, and be around great people at TCU!
jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
The final episode of History Frogcast Season 3 is out!
Listen in as Mikaela explores the solemn work of the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency.
Among the more than 80,000 missing servicemembers that DPAA seeks to bring home is Korean War Airman and Horned Frog Howard Algernon Wilson, Jr.
Listen in as Mikaela explores the solemn work of the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency.
Among the more than 80,000 missing servicemembers that DPAA seeks to bring home is Korean War Airman and Horned Frog Howard Algernon Wilson, Jr.
March 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The final episode of History Frogcast Season 3 is out!
Listen in as Mikaela explores the solemn work of the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency.
Among the more than 80,000 missing servicemembers that DPAA seeks to bring home is Korean War Airman and Horned Frog Howard Algernon Wilson, Jr.
Listen in as Mikaela explores the solemn work of the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency.
Among the more than 80,000 missing servicemembers that DPAA seeks to bring home is Korean War Airman and Horned Frog Howard Algernon Wilson, Jr.
Postdoc Fellowship Alert!
The TCU History Department is accepting applications for a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow.
Do meaningful work with the DPAA, gain teaching experience, and be around great people at TCU!
jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
The TCU History Department is accepting applications for a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow.
Do meaningful work with the DPAA, gain teaching experience, and be around great people at TCU!
jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
jobs.tcu.edu
March 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Postdoc Fellowship Alert!
The TCU History Department is accepting applications for a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow.
Do meaningful work with the DPAA, gain teaching experience, and be around great people at TCU!
jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
The TCU History Department is accepting applications for a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Research Partner Fellow.
Do meaningful work with the DPAA, gain teaching experience, and be around great people at TCU!
jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
💜 The 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium is only 4 weeks away!!
Come to hear @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of Vassar College, who will place the war’s costs and legacies at the center of a story that follows American Marines at Hue, everyday folks in upstate New York, and policymakers in DC.
Come to hear @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of Vassar College, who will place the war’s costs and legacies at the center of a story that follows American Marines at Hue, everyday folks in upstate New York, and policymakers in DC.
March 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
💜 The 2025 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium is only 4 weeks away!!
Come to hear @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of Vassar College, who will place the war’s costs and legacies at the center of a story that follows American Marines at Hue, everyday folks in upstate New York, and policymakers in DC.
Come to hear @robertkbrigham.bsky.social of Vassar College, who will place the war’s costs and legacies at the center of a story that follows American Marines at Hue, everyday folks in upstate New York, and policymakers in DC.
We all know the Medal of Honor, but who are the people who wear it? What are their stories, and what does the medal mean to them?
Tune in to History Frogcast, as Richard and Ben talk with Kali Schick and Michael Caldwell of the National Medal of Honor Museum, and historian Dr. William A. Taylor.
Tune in to History Frogcast, as Richard and Ben talk with Kali Schick and Michael Caldwell of the National Medal of Honor Museum, and historian Dr. William A. Taylor.
March 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We all know the Medal of Honor, but who are the people who wear it? What are their stories, and what does the medal mean to them?
Tune in to History Frogcast, as Richard and Ben talk with Kali Schick and Michael Caldwell of the National Medal of Honor Museum, and historian Dr. William A. Taylor.
Tune in to History Frogcast, as Richard and Ben talk with Kali Schick and Michael Caldwell of the National Medal of Honor Museum, and historian Dr. William A. Taylor.
Check out this episode with the National D-Day Museum and my friend John C. McManus. Hear about amazing women who volunteered to entertain American soldiers at war. These inspiring women were essential to morale and mental health, and they worked under severe pressures.
www.dday.org/someone-talk...
www.dday.org/someone-talk...
Someone Talked! Podcast - National D-Day Memorial
www.dday.org
March 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Check out this episode with the National D-Day Museum and my friend John C. McManus. Hear about amazing women who volunteered to entertain American soldiers at war. These inspiring women were essential to morale and mental health, and they worked under severe pressures.
www.dday.org/someone-talk...
www.dday.org/someone-talk...
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For those historians keeping track, esp #milhist folks, “history” is now a flagged word bc of its apparent connection to #DEI. Canary in a coal mine, indeed. @smh-historians.bsky.social 🗃️ www.tpr.org/military-vet...
U.S. military removes words 'history,' 'respect,' 'dignity' from digital presence as part of DEI review
The Department of Defense issued a Digital Content Refresh document to comply with DEI removal from the armed services. TPR obtained a document laying out the guidance of what to remove.
www.tpr.org
March 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
For those historians keeping track, esp #milhist folks, “history” is now a flagged word bc of its apparent connection to #DEI. Canary in a coal mine, indeed. @smh-historians.bsky.social 🗃️ www.tpr.org/military-vet...
🎵Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming...
This episode of History Frogcast is a special one. Tune in as Samantha and Sabrina speak with TCU's former dean Dr. Andy Schoolmaster about how Americans remember the tragedy of the Kent State shootings.
This episode of History Frogcast is a special one. Tune in as Samantha and Sabrina speak with TCU's former dean Dr. Andy Schoolmaster about how Americans remember the tragedy of the Kent State shootings.
February 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🎵Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming...
This episode of History Frogcast is a special one. Tune in as Samantha and Sabrina speak with TCU's former dean Dr. Andy Schoolmaster about how Americans remember the tragedy of the Kent State shootings.
This episode of History Frogcast is a special one. Tune in as Samantha and Sabrina speak with TCU's former dean Dr. Andy Schoolmaster about how Americans remember the tragedy of the Kent State shootings.
American museums often celebrate the victories of war, but how do we remember the tragedies, especially the Holocaust of WWII?
Tune in to another episode of TCU's History Frogcast as Casey and Sam explore how the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum remembers, commemorates, and educates.
Tune in to another episode of TCU's History Frogcast as Casey and Sam explore how the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum remembers, commemorates, and educates.
February 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
American museums often celebrate the victories of war, but how do we remember the tragedies, especially the Holocaust of WWII?
Tune in to another episode of TCU's History Frogcast as Casey and Sam explore how the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum remembers, commemorates, and educates.
Tune in to another episode of TCU's History Frogcast as Casey and Sam explore how the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum remembers, commemorates, and educates.
🎵Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?🎵
Tune in to the newest episode of History Frogcast as Ethan and Kevin explore how America remembers and celebrates veteran athletes.
Special thanks to Elliot Goldman of the National Leadership Foundation.
Tune in to the newest episode of History Frogcast as Ethan and Kevin explore how America remembers and celebrates veteran athletes.
Special thanks to Elliot Goldman of the National Leadership Foundation.
February 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🎵Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?🎵
Tune in to the newest episode of History Frogcast as Ethan and Kevin explore how America remembers and celebrates veteran athletes.
Special thanks to Elliot Goldman of the National Leadership Foundation.
Tune in to the newest episode of History Frogcast as Ethan and Kevin explore how America remembers and celebrates veteran athletes.
Special thanks to Elliot Goldman of the National Leadership Foundation.
Can't wait! Just hope I don't get World War I and the Cold War confused!
One week from today, the awesome @karadixonvuic.bsky.social visits San Diego for talks at SDSU and USD. If you're free, come on out and join us!
February 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Can't wait! Just hope I don't get World War I and the Cold War confused!
Check out "Frontline Angels," episode 3 of History Frogcast, which features the story of #WWII Army Nurse Lt. Dorothy Delmar, who helped evacuate casualties from the Normandy Invasion.
It's an inspiring story for all of us As Gabby and Emilia put it, Lt. Delmar is a "girl boss."
It's an inspiring story for all of us As Gabby and Emilia put it, Lt. Delmar is a "girl boss."
February 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Check out "Frontline Angels," episode 3 of History Frogcast, which features the story of #WWII Army Nurse Lt. Dorothy Delmar, who helped evacuate casualties from the Normandy Invasion.
It's an inspiring story for all of us As Gabby and Emilia put it, Lt. Delmar is a "girl boss."
It's an inspiring story for all of us As Gabby and Emilia put it, Lt. Delmar is a "girl boss."
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📣 Applications are open for the Clements Center's Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft.
I strongly recommend it to anyone getting a PhD in history or political science who has an interest in the connections between history and foreign policy. It's always a great week of conversations!
I strongly recommend it to anyone getting a PhD in history or political science who has an interest in the connections between history and foreign policy. It's always a great week of conversations!
Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft - Clements Center for National Security
www.clementscenter.org
February 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📣 Applications are open for the Clements Center's Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft.
I strongly recommend it to anyone getting a PhD in history or political science who has an interest in the connections between history and foreign policy. It's always a great week of conversations!
I strongly recommend it to anyone getting a PhD in history or political science who has an interest in the connections between history and foreign policy. It's always a great week of conversations!