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Rick Herrera
@herreramilhist.bsky.social
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Military historian | Early & 19c America | Author | Retired Professor US Army War College | Senior Historian George Washington Leadership Institute | Californian | My views mine alone | https://www.amazon.com/author/raherrera
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 3h
a map of california with a red heart in the center
ALT: a map of california with a red heart in the center
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 4h
According to my local source, Killeen remains steadfastly mediocre when it comes to the quality of food. It pretty much sucked in the 80s.
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 4h
Back in Killeen for the first time since 1987. Back then, I had more hair & less of a waistline.
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 10h
Works for me!
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 10h
Boo! Go Doyers! 😂
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 1d
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Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social · 1d
Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks, New Yorker
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, this is so exciting! Thank you @lizcovart.bsky.social for the invitation. And while I'm here, pleased to announce that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is bringing out a paperback in Spring 2026!!!
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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 1d
Today is @bfworld.bsky.social’s 11th Podversary. The first 4 episodes debuted 11 years ago.
So it’s fitting we have a great new episode to celebrate!

How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery?

Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.
Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy
Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.
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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d
One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d
@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 2d
More importantly, what he learned, or allowed himself to learn?
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 2d
Tactical fetishism and "cool" shit. Take it up a level and consider strategy. Only two countries fielded strategic bomber forces with long range bombers, the U.S. & U.K. Time to shut up and get back to what passes for work in my life. Harrumph!
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 2d
Wehraboos and their adolescent fapfest antics.
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SMH Historians @smh-historians.bsky.social · 2d
The Call for Applications for the 2026 Summer Seminar in Military History is now live! Application forms, a 2-page Letter of Interest, and CV/Resume are due December 12th.
www.smh-hq.org/summersemina...
Summer Seminar | The Society for Military History
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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 2d
Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon
Judge asked federal government lawyer: 'Do you believe this is an appropriate way to deal with a judge’s order that you disagree with?'
www.oregonlive.com
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 2d
Important thread on precedents on National Guard use over state objections, from @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social, and nobody knows it better.
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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 2d
Gov will definitely appeal and will prbly rely on the 1827 SCOTUS ruling in Martin v Mott, that discretion to determine whether an insurrection or failure to enforce federal law is happening rests w the prez alone and is not reviewable.
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 2d
A few more that came to mind. Enjoy!

Norman Baker, Government and Contractors
Christian Buchet, The British Navy, Economy and Society in the Seven Years War
Roger Morris, The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy
Roger Knight, Sustaining the Fleet, 1793-1815
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 3d
An exceedingly large Corpse Reviver #2 has imposed itself on me. If one must, one must. Cheers.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 3d
Once condemned for demolition, Hopkins House, a Civil War-era home, in Gettysburg, to become new museum for Black history www.pennlive.com/life/2025/10... It will become the first museum in Gettysburg devoted to the area’s Black history. ❤️‍🔥
Once condemned for demolition, Civil War-era home to become new museum for Black history
"Remember, the Union was born in Philadelphia, but it was preserved right here in Gettysburg."
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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 5d
And we have our cover! @cindyermus.bsky.social
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 4d
Congratulations!
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 4d
Academic butt sniffing. Departments that hire prestige degrees even when the candidates are shit, but their degrees are blue-blood. I speak from experience.
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 4d
Equality of opportunity to be an asshole
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 4d
Good book. FWIW, Rob is a fan of cocktails. I am full of absurd and useless trivia, mostly true mind you.
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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 4d
Open til 8pm. Furloughed folks get 10% off.
Books More books.
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