NEW EPISODE ALERT! @americanstudier.bsky.social is here this week to discuss the contested legacy of the Vietnam War and the POW/MIA conspiracies of the 80s and 90s as told through the X-Files episode "Unrequited". Available right now on all the podcast apps, ad-free! youtu.be/hlzRKTpC1z4?...

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University of Chicago Press coming through again sending this one to me in Canada! Working on future book reviews and conversations with authors. Stay tuned!

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Spending some time tracking down photos for my upcoming book on the Army in Vietnam, Oct 68-Dec 69, and just discovered a trove of pics in the USACE digital archives. Most need a bit of Photoshop love, but some real great ones in there. Here is An Khe, circa 1967-68.

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Mail days like this one are pretty rad! Thanks, University of Chicago Press, for sending me the upcoming release by @elisatamarkin.bsky.social ! 📚

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A bit of reading for book club that is apropos for the moment. “As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil...” Things They Carried is a book I read with HS jr’s for 3 years and almost all of them read it.

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