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Amanda Nagel

@amnagel.bsky.social
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Historian of race, war, and empire in the late 19th-early 20th centuries.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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Amanda B. Cronkhite @abcronkhite.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This paragraph should be REQUIRED reading in military education 🤣 @amnagel.bsky.social #PME
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CK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Emergency Kitt….errr baby beaver. Sound ok.
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Amanda Nagel @amnagel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
In DC for a research trip, and was lucky enough to catch some of the cherry blossom season. It was a gorgeous day to stroll for (many) miles, but back to the musty smell of dead people’s mail tomorrow!
Cherry blossom tree in full bloom with the Washington and Jefferson Monuments in the background on a beautiful sunny dayView from under a cherry blossom tree, with the sun peeking through and some of the pale pink petals nearly see-through from the sunbeamsA woman with brown hair in a ponytail, wearing a green shirt and sunglasses in front of a cherry blossom treeClose-up of two cherry blossom flowers in full bloom, a pale pink with some rays of sunshine hitting the petals
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Whether you’re most excited for the Super Bowl, the Puppy Bowl, or the Superb Owl, tailgate with my 262nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, team! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 262 (2/8/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Whether you’re most excited for the Super Bowl, the Puppy Bowl, or the Superb Owl, start tailgating early with my 262nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming b...
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/12/2025
this is hysterical 🤣
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"Sir, the seventh principle of war is unity of command!" Every flag officer in the Pacific, 1941-45:
"I'm just built different"
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
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Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday
Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In my day, courting involved dancing skyclad under a full moon, burnt blood offerings, and—this is truly the worst one—you had to talk to people on the landline Like, cables ran THROUGH THE EARTH, all manner of demonic voices came out & you were just supposed to say, “hi! this is Kerry speaking!”
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Amanda Nagel @amnagel.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Kansas sky is a vibrant sight to behold tonight. The beauty left me calmed in a way I can’t fully describe.
Bright red coloring the dark sky with a big ass tree and someone’s lit-up mansion-y like old white brick housePink turning into red rising out of the trees in the night skyThe night sky with bright green fading into redThe night sky with a bright green reverse Nike swoosh amid red and pink
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 29/08/2025
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
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Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
New Members: it is with great pleasure that we can add both three new countries and nearly a dozen new members to the Network since our recent conference in Austria.
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Military.com @militarydotcom.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Buffalo Soldiers Would Get Highest Congressional Honor Under Senate Proposal www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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Buffalo Soldiers Would Get Highest Congressional Honor Under Senate Proposal
More than 150 years after the first regiments of Buffalo Soldiers were formed, a bipartisan pair of senators is looking to bestow Congress' highest honor on the storied Black troops.
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Sarah E. Minnis, PhD 🏔️ @saraheminnisphd.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
xoxo love ya!
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Dr. Spider Hog, Esq. @callmemrwiggles.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Guided Labubu missiles?
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Here’s today’s thread once more for the evening crowd. Please share widely to get all this great scholarship to all the folks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️
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Oh! What a Lovely Podcast @owalpodcast.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
What makes a 50-year-old #FWW book still essential reading? We welcome @iaisherwood.bsky.social & Steven Trout authors of 'But It Still Goes On: Paul Fussell’s The Great War & Modern Memory at 50' to revisit Fussell’s classic & the debates it still sparks ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/50-t...
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The Great War and Modern Memory at 50
What makes a 50-year-old book on WWI still essential reading? In this episode, Angus, Jessica, and Chris are joined by Ian Isherwood and Steven Trout, authors of But It Still Goes On: Pa...
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
When I post about a the struggle of transgender service members, I get a lot of “some of the best people I served with were” and things of that nature. And that’s good, that’s fine. But, the true mark of success is the acceptance of the goldbricker transgender service member. The “just doing time”.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Obligatory 20th Maine meme for my Downeast and Aroostook County boys who dgaf bout no rebel yell
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This is not great. CASAs are one of the BEST links between the Army and communities. This further degrades our ability to bridge the civ-mil divide
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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Me [yelling]: HEY BABE I CAN’T FIND A COPY OF OUR MUTUAL DEFENSE AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL ANYWHERE Her: That’s ‘cause we don’t have one! Me: I SWEAR I LEFT IT RIGHT NEXT TO THE AUMF! Her: That’s your old one from 2001! Me: WELL WHAT ABOUT MY CASUS BELLI?! Her: Nope!
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
From an article on King of the Hill and Parks & Rec star Jonathan Joss, a Native gay man who was murdered in a hateful attack.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2025
Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."
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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Great thread about the symbolism of parades in DC- and how very, very different this one is.
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Wesley Livesay @historyofthesecondworldwar.com · 10/06/2025
I am about 7 books into Eastern Front ‘41 research and the one critical thing I have learned: Find somebody to love you the way some military historians hate Guderian, with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
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MTMcGurk @mtmcgurk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Nice episode @amnagel.bsky.social ! No idea you were a high jumper! Your work on African American soldiers in WW1 is so important. Thanks for teaching the next generation!
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S5E24 Amanda Nagel - US Army Command and General Staff College
Podcast Episode · Military Historians are People, Too! · 04/22/2025 · 1h 9m
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Amanda Nagel @amnagel.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I had a ton of fun chatting with Drs. Feltman and Allison for this podcast. Give it a listen if you’re so inclined!
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Not as many people are pelted with potatoes anymore, and it shows
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Amanda Nagel @amnagel.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I had a ton of fun chatting with Drs. Feltman and Allison for this podcast. Give it a listen if you’re so inclined!
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Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A new podcast episode to kick off your Friday!
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Military Historians are People, Too! @mhptpodcast.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
New episode! @amnagel.bsky.social joined us IN PERSON in the studio for a great convo about PME, growing up in North Dakota, and African Americans in the U.S. military. Check it out! @smh-historians.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @uvapress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0DXm...
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S5E24 Amanda Nagel - US Army Command and General Staff College
Military Historians are People, Too! · Episode
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Chris Ingram @chrisgingram.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Lethality knows no gender, and diversity enhances innovation.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Reconstruction ended in 1876 Mississippi did not get a Black state legislator again until 1968, and he just died. In case you think that was all ancient history.
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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is a hell of a read. Also, in the most pot-kettle thing I can post, this makes Harvard seem way more spiritually hateful than West Point, a literal war school where an upperclassman hit me in the chest with a rifle butt as part of an alleged tradition they may have just made up on the spot.
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a man in a suit and tie is covering his nose with his hand ..
Alt: I DON'T HAVE A GIF FOR THIS SITUATION
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Felt like writing this. angrystaffofficer.com/2025/02/12/d...
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Diversity: The U.S. Military’s Not-So-Secret Weapon
In the woods of northeast France, a group of American artillery officers watched their olive drab-clad batterymen set up their tents in a peaceful glade. It would be the last such quiet the battery…
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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Just a heads-up. No scholars are safe from me sliding into the DMs about research… If I find a SAMS monograph or dissertation or a chapter in an edited book that fits our topic, *clicks on messenger* Or you could just go check out the prompt and shoot me a note, too. www.theworldwar.org/symposia
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
It might be Super Bowl Sunday later, but right now it’s #ScholarSunday–so here’s my 211st thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please share widely & enjoy, team! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 211
Published on February 9, 2025
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 09/02/2025
Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth in Anderson County (SC), 12 important historical sites to know, inc the Phyllis Wheatley Centers for Working Girls’ Association, the [Rev Augustus] Vance House www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/l... #tellemwhatwedid ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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Celebrate Black History Month in Anderson County, 12 important historical sites to know
Considering checking out these African American historical sites in Anderson County for Black History Month.
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Cathrine Schmid @schmidcathrine.us · 09/02/2025
I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values. That's what I've done for 2 decades. I have earned my place here. The constant and repeated attacks on my service and patriotism fly in the face of every single thing we as an organization claim to hold dear.
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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thrilled that my debut book, 'Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain', will be published by @headofzeus.bsky.social in May! You can now pre-order here: geni.us/EagleDays Thank you SO much Dan Jones, my agent Georgina Capel & @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social ♥️ 1/4
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Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Job ferry: The Combating Terrorism Center (@CTCWP) is hiring for several positions (Instructor / Assistant Professor / Associate Professor) to join their team. Applications open until February 3. www.usajobs.gov/job/825758500
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Instructor / Assistant Professor / Associate Professor
<b>About the Position:</b> The U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY is an academic institution located in the Hudson River Valley, 50 miles from New York City. The historic site is the oldest continu...
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Sasha Lehtonen | Mother of Tanks @motheroftanks.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I'd like to thank Trent Hone for helping fill the Navy History gap in this series. This episode includes more on Admiral Nimitz and leadership challenges in the Pacific Theater through 1944 with connections to Operation Flintlock and Battle of Saipan, and a few upcoming episodes. @honer.bsky.social
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Sasha Lehtonen | Mother of Tanks @motheroftanks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I'd like to thank @briankerg.bsky.social for another great episode, this time talking about the Battle of Saipan and some leadership challenges the US Army & US Marine Corps faced in the Pacific in 1944. #WhyWeFight1944 #ArmyHistory #USMCHistory #NavyHistory #MilitaryHistory #WWII #Podcast
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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Based on the French Canadian branch of my family tree, this all tracks.
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