Ed Gitre
@edgitre.bsky.social
Father of 2 amazing boys, husband, historian, educator, school board member, digital scholar, director of https://americansoldierww2.org. Working on a book on the battle over Jim Crow in the US Army in WWII. Opinions my own.
Thanks, Ben, for all the work you do to spotlight public scholarship.
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thanks, Ben, for all the work you do to spotlight public scholarship.
One of them is Medal of Honor awardee PFC Willy F. James Jr.
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...
PFC Willy F. James, Jr's Medal of Honor
Willy F. James, Jr. was one of seven African Americans to receive the Medal of Honor for service in World War II, an award delayed decades by bias and discrimination.
www.nationalww2museum.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
One of them is Medal of Honor awardee PFC Willy F. James Jr.
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...
Klein has a seemingly endless capacity to explicate U.S. political history while avoiding the import of race (until he gets to Obama and can hardly ignore it).
October 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Klein has a seemingly endless capacity to explicate U.S. political history while avoiding the import of race (until he gets to Obama and can hardly ignore it).
"Troops must train together, work together and live together in order to attain successful teamwork in campaign. The sharing or work opportunities and recreational facilities must be willingly accepted and utilized to unite more closely the troops of our several commands."
September 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Troops must train together, work together and live together in order to attain successful teamwork in campaign. The sharing or work opportunities and recreational facilities must be willingly accepted and utilized to unite more closely the troops of our several commands."
Reposted by Ed Gitre
"As I went through the papers of [the American grassroots movement], their private papers and their organizational papers both, what I found was this deep and abiding expression of anti-internationalism, which they then redefined as a defense of sovereignty."
- @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social
- @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"As I went through the papers of [the American grassroots movement], their private papers and their organizational papers both, what I found was this deep and abiding expression of anti-internationalism, which they then redefined as a defense of sovereignty."
- @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social
- @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social