Wayne E. Lee
@milhistlee.bsky.social
World military historian at UNC. Veteran. Archaeologist. Blacksmith. Traveler. Archer. I try to limit my posts to military history/security policy. Mostly. Current President of the Soc. for Military History. Officially here: https://waynelee.web.unc.edu/
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Coming soon: Hogan's Heroes and Post War America
An 8-episode documentary video pod about the making of the show, the actors' lives, American history, and learning to laugh at Nazis
www.kickstarter.com
Announcing our "pre-launch" phase of our Kickstarter to complete production of our video pod documentary on the making and meaning of Hogan's Heroes: Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America. Full launch is on Feb. 16, for a 40 day campaign to raise $15k
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
I hesitate to cast stones about body appearance, but does this infamous art "restoration" remind anyone of anybody (or anybodies)
February 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I hesitate to cast stones about body appearance, but does this infamous art "restoration" remind anyone of anybody (or anybodies)
Please help us cover the costs to complete this video/podcast documentary on the making and meaning of Hogan's Heroes in American History. For the episode on Crane we'll be interviewing historians Greg Daddis (Pulp Vietnam) and Beth Bailey (Sex in the Heartland)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Coming soon: Hogan's Heroes and Post War America
An 8-episode documentary video pod about the making of the show, the actors' lives, American history, and learning to laugh at Nazis
www.kickstarter.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Please help us cover the costs to complete this video/podcast documentary on the making and meaning of Hogan's Heroes in American History. For the episode on Crane we'll be interviewing historians Greg Daddis (Pulp Vietnam) and Beth Bailey (Sex in the Heartland)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
It is both well known and obscure (depending on your age) that Bob Crane (Col. Hogan) was murdered in 1978. Likely due to his vast array of filmed and photographed sexual encounters. We look at the murder in context of changing landscape of sex and masculinity in US!
#Hogan'sHeroesandPostWarAmerica
#Hogan'sHeroesandPostWarAmerica
February 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
It is both well known and obscure (depending on your age) that Bob Crane (Col. Hogan) was murdered in 1978. Likely due to his vast array of filmed and photographed sexual encounters. We look at the murder in context of changing landscape of sex and masculinity in US!
#Hogan'sHeroesandPostWarAmerica
#Hogan'sHeroesandPostWarAmerica
Thanks for all these comments, and YES, we talk about a lot of these things in our episode on Dixon, and more! Please help us get this finished!
I'll post some more teasers on Dixon next week when the Kickstarter launches. And also on Clary and Crane. The stories here are legion.
I'll post some more teasers on Dixon next week when the Kickstarter launches. And also on Clary and Crane. The stories here are legion.
February 13, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Thanks for all these comments, and YES, we talk about a lot of these things in our episode on Dixon, and more! Please help us get this finished!
I'll post some more teasers on Dixon next week when the Kickstarter launches. And also on Clary and Crane. The stories here are legion.
I'll post some more teasers on Dixon next week when the Kickstarter launches. And also on Clary and Crane. The stories here are legion.
We are featuring that episode and another with interesting ironies on race!
February 12, 2026 at 9:10 PM
We are featuring that episode and another with interesting ironies on race!
Also, subscribe to the YouTube channel where it will appear! www.youtube.com/@HogansHeroe...
Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America
PLEASE visit our Kickstarter page to help us fund the completion of this series: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leemaltese/hogans-heroes-and-post-war-america
A programmer from the RAND corporat...
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February 12, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Also, subscribe to the YouTube channel where it will appear! www.youtube.com/@HogansHeroe...
Ivan Dixon, who played Sgt Kinchloe, later directed a film about radical Black revolutionaries. FBI pressured theaters to cease showing the film, and all but 1 copy was destroyed.
Want to know more? See our Kickstarter for "Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America"
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Want to know more? See our Kickstarter for "Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America"
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Coming soon: Hogan's Heroes and Post War America
An 8-episode documentary video pod about the making of the show, the actors' lives, American history, and learning to laugh at Nazis
www.kickstarter.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Ivan Dixon, who played Sgt Kinchloe, later directed a film about radical Black revolutionaries. FBI pressured theaters to cease showing the film, and all but 1 copy was destroyed.
Want to know more? See our Kickstarter for "Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America"
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Want to know more? See our Kickstarter for "Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America"
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Not a drag queen. Again.
A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children
A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child.
n.pr
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Not a drag queen. Again.
Perfectly said. Meanwhile the Ukrainians are teaching us how this works. Paying in blood and ruin.
US military aid to Ukraine was the single most effective military spending we’ve had since aiding the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan. We reduced Russia’s military by like half for circa five percent of the annual Pentagon budget. That’s a goddamn bargain.
And Trump has spoiled it.
And Trump has spoiled it.
Quite the chart
February 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Perfectly said. Meanwhile the Ukrainians are teaching us how this works. Paying in blood and ruin.
well, that is why we're interviewing Rob Citino for that episode! It's all about the clean wehrmacht!
February 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
well, that is why we're interviewing Rob Citino for that episode! It's all about the clean wehrmacht!
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This is what ICE calls a "violent criminal." A Missouri grandma and lawful resident spent months in detention for a decade-old misdemeanor, underscoring the massive scope of the administration’s deportation efforts. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
She bounced a $25 check in 2014. ICE tried to deport her.
A Missouri grandma and lawful resident spent months in detention for a decade-old misdemeanor, underscoring the massive scope of the administration’s deportation efforts.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:11 PM
This is what ICE calls a "violent criminal." A Missouri grandma and lawful resident spent months in detention for a decade-old misdemeanor, underscoring the massive scope of the administration’s deportation efforts. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
Well. I may soon have to go on strike.
“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
www.insidehighered.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Well. I may soon have to go on strike.
#Hogan's Heroes.
Did you know that modern American re-enactor groups portraying WWII Germans got started because of Hogan's Heroes?!
Back our podcast kickstarter to find out more 😀 (click "Notify me on launch") www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Did you know that modern American re-enactor groups portraying WWII Germans got started because of Hogan's Heroes?!
Back our podcast kickstarter to find out more 😀 (click "Notify me on launch") www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
a yellow smiley face with a cracked face and a cloud coming out of it
ALT: a yellow smiley face with a cracked face and a cloud coming out of it
media.tenor.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:58 PM
#Hogan's Heroes.
Did you know that modern American re-enactor groups portraying WWII Germans got started because of Hogan's Heroes?!
Back our podcast kickstarter to find out more 😀 (click "Notify me on launch") www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Did you know that modern American re-enactor groups portraying WWII Germans got started because of Hogan's Heroes?!
Back our podcast kickstarter to find out more 😀 (click "Notify me on launch") www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
The preliminary program for the SMH 2026 Annual Meeting in Arlington has been posted. There will undoubtedly be changes and updates between now and the end of March, but now you can start planning all of the sessions you want to attend.
www.smh-hq.org/annualmeetin...
www.smh-hq.org/annualmeetin...
Conference Program of Panels | The Society for Military History
www.smh-hq.org
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 AM
The preliminary program for the SMH 2026 Annual Meeting in Arlington has been posted. There will undoubtedly be changes and updates between now and the end of March, but now you can start planning all of the sessions you want to attend.
www.smh-hq.org/annualmeetin...
www.smh-hq.org/annualmeetin...
we talk about that criticism, and also consequences of "making light" over the long term (that's ep. 1 and 3)
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 AM
we talk about that criticism, and also consequences of "making light" over the long term (that's ep. 1 and 3)
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Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery.
This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 —
is terrifying.
dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/
This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 —
is terrifying.
dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/
February 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery.
This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 —
is terrifying.
dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/
This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 —
is terrifying.
dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/
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A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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And as a thank-you card to our guests for coming on the show, I'm creating Simpsons portraits for them. The guests from our first two episodes, @frankconniff.bsky.social, comedian, writer, and film history expert, and Dr. Christopher Browning, historian of the Holocaust. Such amazing guests!
February 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
And as a thank-you card to our guests for coming on the show, I'm creating Simpsons portraits for them. The guests from our first two episodes, @frankconniff.bsky.social, comedian, writer, and film history expert, and Dr. Christopher Browning, historian of the Holocaust. Such amazing guests!
Teaser videos already up on our YouTube pod channel
www.youtube.com/@HogansHeroe...
www.youtube.com/@HogansHeroe...
Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America
PLEASE visit our Kickstarter page to help us fund the completion of this series: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leemaltese/hogans-heroes-and-post-war-america
A programmer from the RAND corporat...
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Teaser videos already up on our YouTube pod channel
www.youtube.com/@HogansHeroe...
www.youtube.com/@HogansHeroe...
exactly right, and we do a whole episode on Dixon's career before and after the show (as well as that whole southern affiliate station thing!)
February 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
exactly right, and we do a whole episode on Dixon's career before and after the show (as well as that whole southern affiliate station thing!)
Yes, I'll be flooding my feed with announcements. Sorry!
Please click the "Notify me on Launch" button on our prelaunch page!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Please click the "Notify me on Launch" button on our prelaunch page!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Coming soon: Hogan's Heroes and Post War America
An 8-episode documentary video pod about the making of the show, the actors' lives, American history, and learning to laugh at Nazis
www.kickstarter.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Yes, I'll be flooding my feed with announcements. Sorry!
Please click the "Notify me on Launch" button on our prelaunch page!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Please click the "Notify me on Launch" button on our prelaunch page!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Pod will include interviews with Frank Conniff (of MST3K fame), Christopher Browning (author of Ordinary Men), Robert Citino (author of Death of the Wehrmacht), Beth Bailey (America's Army), Adriane Lentz-Smith, and more.
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Pod will include interviews with Frank Conniff (of MST3K fame), Christopher Browning (author of Ordinary Men), Robert Citino (author of Death of the Wehrmacht), Beth Bailey (America's Army), Adriane Lentz-Smith, and more.
We are in production, but we need some help to get over the final hump. You can find out more on our pre-launch page. There will be various rewards for different tiers of support, including custom artwork from Simpsons' animator @annamaltese.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
We are in production, but we need some help to get over the final hump. You can find out more on our pre-launch page. There will be various rewards for different tiers of support, including custom artwork from Simpsons' animator @annamaltese.bsky.social
Announcing our "pre-launch" phase of our Kickstarter to complete production of our video pod documentary on the making and meaning of Hogan's Heroes: Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America. Full launch is on Feb. 16, for a 40 day campaign to raise $15k
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
Coming soon: Hogan's Heroes and Post War America
An 8-episode documentary video pod about the making of the show, the actors' lives, American history, and learning to laugh at Nazis
www.kickstarter.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Announcing our "pre-launch" phase of our Kickstarter to complete production of our video pod documentary on the making and meaning of Hogan's Heroes: Hogan's Heroes and Postwar America. Full launch is on Feb. 16, for a 40 day campaign to raise $15k
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lee...
not to mention that the "greeks winning" depends on your time horizon, and whether you count those barbarian Macedonians as Greek or not.
February 8, 2026 at 3:10 AM
not to mention that the "greeks winning" depends on your time horizon, and whether you count those barbarian Macedonians as Greek or not.