Richard Grippaldi
@rgrippaldiphd.bsky.social
I teach college students. I research the 19th century US Army. I post about baseball and ice cream (mostly).
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1 JANUARY 1776, BOSTON SIEGE LINES: The enlistments expire for all Continental soldiers who have not reenlisted in the new army. They are called to their parade grounds and dismissed, and today and tomorrow they depart, “going home by hundreds and by thousands.”
January 1, 2026 at 1:58 PM
1 JANUARY 1776, BOSTON SIEGE LINES: The enlistments expire for all Continental soldiers who have not reenlisted in the new army. They are called to their parade grounds and dismissed, and today and tomorrow they depart, “going home by hundreds and by thousands.”
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Looking for #skystorians rec’s on the Battle of the Bulge. What book offers the best & most accessible overview? Also looking for candid memoirs/diaries #history #WWII @smh-historians.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Looking for #skystorians rec’s on the Battle of the Bulge. What book offers the best & most accessible overview? Also looking for candid memoirs/diaries #history #WWII @smh-historians.bsky.social
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Happy Vince Guaraldi season to all who celebrate.
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Happy Vince Guaraldi season to all who celebrate.
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My book has a (preliminary) page @pennpress.bsky.social ! Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England will be published in October 2026. www.pennpress.org/978151283015...
Contested Currents – Penn Press
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December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My book has a (preliminary) page @pennpress.bsky.social ! Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England will be published in October 2026. www.pennpress.org/978151283015...
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The losses to my field have been tremendous. Every brilliant scholar-teacher I know who didn’t get a chance to grow our knowledge about the past and help young people learn historical thinking skills is a loss. But it should never be “me instead of you,” but always “both of us, together.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The losses to my field have been tremendous. Every brilliant scholar-teacher I know who didn’t get a chance to grow our knowledge about the past and help young people learn historical thinking skills is a loss. But it should never be “me instead of you,” but always “both of us, together.”
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What's most clear from this speech/order is that Hegseth knows very little about the chaplain corps -- its history, its purpose, and its operations are not what he imagines them to be.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week ordered sweeping changes to the U.S. military's chaplain corps, with a plan to simplify a system that he said has become too focused on "new age" concepts.
Hegseth to overhaul chaplain corps, toss ‘unacceptable and unserious’ Army spiritual fitness guide
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered sweeping changes to the U.S. military’s chaplain corps.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
What's most clear from this speech/order is that Hegseth knows very little about the chaplain corps -- its history, its purpose, and its operations are not what he imagines them to be.
The older I get, the more I understand the Andy Rooney segments at the end of "60 Minutes."
ICYMI I wrote what I (don’t) know www.theringer.com/2025/12/16/p...
December 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The older I get, the more I understand the Andy Rooney segments at the end of "60 Minutes."
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17 DECEMBER 1775, FORT GEORGE, LAKE CHAMPLAIN: Henry Knox writes to both George Washington and Philip Schuyler that, after ten days, he has succeeded in moving Ticonderoga’s cannon up the lake and will now load them onto sleds to transport them to overland to Boston.
December 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
17 DECEMBER 1775, FORT GEORGE, LAKE CHAMPLAIN: Henry Knox writes to both George Washington and Philip Schuyler that, after ten days, he has succeeded in moving Ticonderoga’s cannon up the lake and will now load them onto sleds to transport them to overland to Boston.
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feel old yet? paul galesko turns 100 today and is still anxiously awaiting parole. happy birthday mr. galesko we love you
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
feel old yet? paul galesko turns 100 today and is still anxiously awaiting parole. happy birthday mr. galesko we love you
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Another stroll through an interesting part of #Cubs history. #MLB
www.bleedcubbieblue.com/chicago-cubs...
www.bleedcubbieblue.com/chicago-cubs...
Cubs position player pitchers: Larry Biittner
The first of a new off-season series.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Another stroll through an interesting part of #Cubs history. #MLB
www.bleedcubbieblue.com/chicago-cubs...
www.bleedcubbieblue.com/chicago-cubs...
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Really the truth is that everyone in Philly thinks their local cheesesteak place is the best, except if you're a tourist, then you debate Pat's and Gino's
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Really the truth is that everyone in Philly thinks their local cheesesteak place is the best, except if you're a tourist, then you debate Pat's and Gino's
A jacket, shell, field, M-1951, moldering in the garage, the nameplate still legible under decades of dust.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A jacket, shell, field, M-1951, moldering in the garage, the nameplate still legible under decades of dust.
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123 days until Opening Day
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
123 days until Opening Day
Something new every day &c &c
It's National Play Monopoly Day! The battleship token in the classic version of Monopoly was modeled after USS Indiana (BB-1). The game piece was also used in the board games Conflict and Diplomacy. The Indiana was commissioned in 1895 and decommissioned in 1919. #monopoly
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Something new every day &c &c
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may I tweet u www.theringer.com/2025/11/18/p...
May I Explain the “May I Meet You?” Meme?
Bill Ackman thinks the cure to male loneliness is asking women these four magic words. Allow me to explain.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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If we acknowledge that Ken Burns has essentially produced a traditional consensus view of the American Revolution with marginalized voices added as window dressing, what would it mean to truly reinterpret this moment for the general public. Is a new consensus view even possible or desirable? 🗃️
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If we acknowledge that Ken Burns has essentially produced a traditional consensus view of the American Revolution with marginalized voices added as window dressing, what would it mean to truly reinterpret this moment for the general public. Is a new consensus view even possible or desirable? 🗃️
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5 NOVEMBER 1775, CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS: George Washington forbids the New England soldiers under his command from celebrating “that ridiculous and childish Custom of burning the Effigy of the pope”—Pope’s Night, the New England variant of Bonfire Night. founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
Founders Online: General Orders, 5 November 1775
General Orders, 5 November 1775
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November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
5 NOVEMBER 1775, CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS: George Washington forbids the New England soldiers under his command from celebrating “that ridiculous and childish Custom of burning the Effigy of the pope”—Pope’s Night, the New England variant of Bonfire Night. founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
LRP: curious myself. Any ordnance experts out there?
November 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
LRP: curious myself. Any ordnance experts out there?
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Why a 37mm cannon instead of 40mm? Especially when you could just take a Bofors?
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Why a 37mm cannon instead of 40mm? Especially when you could just take a Bofors?
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“People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” - Rogers Hornsby
(May the waiting commence…)
(May the waiting commence…)
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” - Rogers Hornsby
(May the waiting commence…)
(May the waiting commence…)
Happy "Technology and Stuff" Day to all those who celebrate.
November 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy "Technology and Stuff" Day to all those who celebrate.
I have ROTC cadets in class from time to time. The course isn't designed specifically for them, but I sure hope I'm doing enough to foster this.
We should be asking better questions about American democracy and the democratic process, and teaching junior officers about the messy but beautiful *form of government* they swore an oath to support and defend. 20/
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I have ROTC cadets in class from time to time. The course isn't designed specifically for them, but I sure hope I'm doing enough to foster this.
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Hi folks! A few thoughts on this essay, and the questions that we *should* be asking, rather than the ones this Army officer seems inclined to answer. I haven’t done a CMR thread in a while so I’m overdue. 🧵
Hard to imagine a more sinister & dangerous argument, couched in euphemism & high-minded language. "This essay does not argue liberalism will collapse, only that [US] military officers should be intellectually (and spiritually) prepared for alternatives." warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
The American Military Officer After Liberalism
Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what
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October 31, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hi folks! A few thoughts on this essay, and the questions that we *should* be asking, rather than the ones this Army officer seems inclined to answer. I haven’t done a CMR thread in a while so I’m overdue. 🧵