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.
I'd like to save you a few minutes. This op-ed is not worth your time.
This is a wild framing.
The US can dominate everywhere in the world except 7000 miles away at an island 100 miles off another superpower’s coast.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The US can dominate everywhere in the world except 7000 miles away at an island 100 miles off another superpower’s coast.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I'd like to save you a few minutes. This op-ed is not worth your time.
A quick read worth your time.
Ira Hayes is just the tip of this impressive, tragic, deeply American iceberg of inspiring individuals & vital communities.
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/cons...
www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/11/cons...
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A quick read worth your time.
Reposted by Ed Gitre
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
And what happened after WWII that made the military "politically correct"? Might it be Truman's executive order desegregating the armed forces? What else could it be?
In any event, the "War Department" started to desegregate during the war as I wrote about in TIME.
time.com/7329734/mili...
In any event, the "War Department" started to desegregate during the war as I wrote about in TIME.
time.com/7329734/mili...
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
And what happened after WWII that made the military "politically correct"? Might it be Truman's executive order desegregating the armed forces? What else could it be?
In any event, the "War Department" started to desegregate during the war as I wrote about in TIME.
time.com/7329734/mili...
In any event, the "War Department" started to desegregate during the war as I wrote about in TIME.
time.com/7329734/mili...
On Facebook, Black Liberators in the Netherlands posted pictures of panels the Heritage Foundation reportedly pressed the Trump administration to have removed from the American cemetery in Margraten.
Black soldiers who volunteered for combat duty as riflemen are among the dead buried there.
Black soldiers who volunteered for combat duty as riflemen are among the dead buried there.
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
On Facebook, Black Liberators in the Netherlands posted pictures of panels the Heritage Foundation reportedly pressed the Trump administration to have removed from the American cemetery in Margraten.
Black soldiers who volunteered for combat duty as riflemen are among the dead buried there.
Black soldiers who volunteered for combat duty as riflemen are among the dead buried there.
Thank you, @americanstudier.bsky.social, for highlighting my essay.
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Thank you, @americanstudier.bsky.social, for highlighting my essay.
All-volunteer Black rifle companies fought alongside White companies in 1945 in the race to Berlin. These men put their lives on the line in service to their country.
White supremacists still can't accept that these Americans played essential roles in an Allied victory.
time.com/7329734/mili....
White supremacists still can't accept that these Americans played essential roles in an Allied victory.
time.com/7329734/mili....
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
All-volunteer Black rifle companies fought alongside White companies in 1945 in the race to Berlin. These men put their lives on the line in service to their country.
White supremacists still can't accept that these Americans played essential roles in an Allied victory.
time.com/7329734/mili....
White supremacists still can't accept that these Americans played essential roles in an Allied victory.
time.com/7329734/mili....
I was gutted to hear of Alison's passing. She was on my dissertation committee. Her energy, kindness, and dedication will always stay with me. I was in awe of how she and her husband Keith juggled parenting and trailblazing careers. Just devastating news.
I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.
Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies
A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.
www.princeton.edu
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I was gutted to hear of Alison's passing. She was on my dissertation committee. Her energy, kindness, and dedication will always stay with me. I was in awe of how she and her husband Keith juggled parenting and trailblazing careers. Just devastating news.
What a magnificent day for our democracy yesterday.
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What a magnificent day for our democracy yesterday.
Brilliant
ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...
Artist Amy Sherald: The 60 Minutes Interview
Amy Sherald spent years painting in obscurity, and almost died from a rare heart condition. Now 52, the artist behind Michelle Obama's official portrait is one of America's most celebrated painters.
www.cbsnews.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Brilliant
Willful ignorance or deliberate manipulation of recent military history? Convenient to pass over WWII when equal representation (racial quotas) in the armed forces served "the mission." Caldwell in @nytopinion.nytimes.com recycles the spurious arguments of the pro-segregationists.
NYT published an opinion today by Christopher Caldwell of the Claremont Institute. The Heritage Foundation cited Caldwell in a March article titled: "Trump Is Bringing About a Regime Change Not Seen Since 1933."
Is this the New York Times or Völkischer Beobachter?
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social thoughts?
Is this the New York Times or Völkischer Beobachter?
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social thoughts?
October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Willful ignorance or deliberate manipulation of recent military history? Convenient to pass over WWII when equal representation (racial quotas) in the armed forces served "the mission." Caldwell in @nytopinion.nytimes.com recycles the spurious arguments of the pro-segregationists.
"Equal opportunity of service and of recreation are the right of every American soldier regardless of branch, race, color or creed." Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1 March 1944
September 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Equal opportunity of service and of recreation are the right of every American soldier regardless of branch, race, color or creed." Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1 March 1944
Let's travel back further to March 6, 1942. The Senate Committee on Military Affairs was debating an armed forces reorg. Committee member Truman argued, "If we could just get the War Department and the Navy Department on speaking terms..., I don't think that we will ever have another Pearl Harbor."
September 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Let's travel back further to March 6, 1942. The Senate Committee on Military Affairs was debating an armed forces reorg. Committee member Truman argued, "If we could just get the War Department and the Navy Department on speaking terms..., I don't think that we will ever have another Pearl Harbor."
Tell that to the former Axis Powers of World War II. It appears our VP is unfamiliar with the concept of "unconditional surrender."
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
August 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Tell that to the former Axis Powers of World War II. It appears our VP is unfamiliar with the concept of "unconditional surrender."
Foundations of modern academia are crumbling before our eyes.
Meanwhile, at the University of Chicago... www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
August 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Foundations of modern academia are crumbling before our eyes.
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"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
Reposted by Ed Gitre
Reposted by Ed Gitre
How do we pay respect this #MemorialDay? Consider one Black #WWII soldier's request. "Don't you think it would be a grand gesture and the beginning of great progress if the people (of the United States) as a whole would have their eyes opened ... "
americansoldierww2.org/surveys/a/S1...
americansoldierww2.org/surveys/a/S1...
May 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
How do we pay respect this #MemorialDay? Consider one Black #WWII soldier's request. "Don't you think it would be a grand gesture and the beginning of great progress if the people (of the United States) as a whole would have their eyes opened ... "
americansoldierww2.org/surveys/a/S1...
americansoldierww2.org/surveys/a/S1...
"Dr. Carla Hayden was a leader in the digitization of libraries and a steadfast advocate for their public mission. Her dismissal signals more than a routine personnel shift—it reflects a deeper contest over who controls the curation and dissemination of knowledge in the digital age."
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"Dr. Carla Hayden was a leader in the digitization of libraries and a steadfast advocate for their public mission. Her dismissal signals more than a routine personnel shift—it reflects a deeper contest over who controls the curation and dissemination of knowledge in the digital age."
Virginia Tech is hiring an instructor in modern military history, I'm happy to announce. We're looking for a scholar who can teach operational history and also contribute to our thriving war & society program.
@smh-historians.bsky.social
@wwiimuseum.bsky.social
@smh-historians.bsky.social
@wwiimuseum.bsky.social
Details | Instructor in Modern Military History | Careers | Division of Human Resources | Virginia Tech
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May 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Virginia Tech is hiring an instructor in modern military history, I'm happy to announce. We're looking for a scholar who can teach operational history and also contribute to our thriving war & society program.
@smh-historians.bsky.social
@wwiimuseum.bsky.social
@smh-historians.bsky.social
@wwiimuseum.bsky.social
Reposted by Ed Gitre
🧵 EXTRA History Lesson Today! Since we were on the topic of WWII today, let’s talk about the vital importance of the Code Talkers. After the U.S. joined the war, the efforts of the Marines in the Pacific were stalling due to the Japanese breaking the American’s radio codes. Many young (1/5)
May 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🧵 EXTRA History Lesson Today! Since we were on the topic of WWII today, let’s talk about the vital importance of the Code Talkers. After the U.S. joined the war, the efforts of the Marines in the Pacific were stalling due to the Japanese breaking the American’s radio codes. Many young (1/5)