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Erick Cedeño on a bicycle and map of a route through the west.

Following the Black Soldiers who Biked Across America

Bikepacking historian Erick Cedeño retraces the Buffalo soldiers' legendary journey from Montana to Missouri to rethink it and its place in American history.
by Logan Watts, Dexter Thomas via Bikepacking on August 3, 2022
Members of the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps pose on Minerva Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park in 1896. From Montana Historical Society.

The Black Buffalo Soldiers Who Biked Across the American West

In 1897, the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps embarked on a 1,900-mile journey from Montana to Missouri.
by David Kindy via Smithsonian on June 14, 2022
Chemical lab buildings around American University campus.

The Dangerous Ghosts of WWI Research in Spring Valley

World War I saw the advent of chemical weaponry, and a mysterious chapter in the history of American University in Northwest DC.
by Fontana Micucci via Boundary Stones on February 25, 2022
A line of black civil war soldiers holding their rifles.
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Black Soldier Desertion in the Civil War

The reasons Black Union soldiers left their army during the Civil war were varied, with poor pay, family needs and racism among them.
by Jonathan Lande, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on February 13, 2022
Company of African American soldiers, 1865.

The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments

The inequitable dismissal of US soldiers following the conclusion of the Civil War.
by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. via Black Perspectives on February 2, 2022
A woman is surrounded by her children as she sits amid a pile of debris in the processing area towards Abbey Gate, as they wait to leave Afghanistan, Wednesday, August 25, 2021.

What We Miss When We Say a War Has “Ended”

Bringing to light the kinship among American wars—and, by extension, their true significance—requires situating them in a single historical framework.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on January 25, 2022
Four soldiers in World War I uniforms pose eating Maillard's Eagle Sweet Chocolate. An eagle is illustrated on the candy bar wrapping.
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It Wouldn’t Be Halloween Without Candy. We Have World War I to Thank for That.

Candies of the Halloween season have roots in the sweet treats and real horrors of the Great War.
by Lora Vogt via Made By History on October 31, 2021
National Park Services sign
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The Roots of the Politicization of the National Parks Service

Understanding how the National Park Service Director is chosen is important for understanding the current state of our national parks system.
by Nick DeLuca via HNN on September 26, 2021
US Army soldiers sitting behind bison heads taken from poacher Ed Howell.

Why the US Army Tried to Exterminate the Bison

And then took credit for "saving" them.
by Coleman Lowndes via Vox on August 2, 2021
Soldier walking through barracks

Army to Memorialize Black Soldier Lynched on Georgia Base 80 Years Ago

Pvt. Felix Hall’s killers were never brought to justice.
by Alexa Mills via Washington Post on August 1, 2021
Gen. Milley at White House
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Racism Has Long Undermined Military Cohesion, Just as Gen. Milley Testified

Late 1960s conflicts within the armed forces produced efforts to educate service members on racism.
by Natalie Shibley via Made By History on June 29, 2021
Black and white photo of people and dogs posing in front of crates that say "U.S. Army dog"

Topper’s GI Benefits, Good Homes, and Vivisection Fears: The Treatment of World War II War Dogs

A story about dogs used to fight in World War II and what became of them.
by Hannah E. Palsa via Nursing Clio on May 6, 2021
Jefferson Wiggins.

History Forgot About These Black Soldiers of WWII. Now, a Group Is Remembering Their Work.

Mieke Kierkels and Chris Dickon have been collaborating on several projects to remember the sacrifices of African American soldiers during World War II.
by Denise M. Watson via The Virginian Pilot on April 29, 2021
illustration of boy playing Cold War video game

First-Person Shooter Ideology

The cultural contradictions of Call of Duty.
by Daniel Bessner via The Drift on February 2, 2021
Profiles of four people in background with a hand holding a military gun in the foreground

This Soldier’s Witness to the Iraq War Lie

A U.S. intelligence officer reflects on the moral corruption of an open-ended occupation.
by Frederic Wehrey via New York Review of Books on September 15, 2020
Drawing of headshots of Dred Scott and Harriet Robinson

"Where Two Waters Come Together"

The confluence of Black and Indigenous history at Bdote.
by Katrina Phillips via National Museum of American History on August 26, 2020
Bosque Redondo

Americans Need to Know the Hard Truth About Union Monuments in the West

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.
by Megan Kate Nelson via The Atlantic on July 10, 2020
A group of South Korean refugees during the Korean War.

The Korean War Atrocities No One Wants to Talk About

For decades they covered up the U.S. massacre of civilians at No Gun Ri and elsewhere. This is why we never learn our lessons.
by Jim Bovard via The American Conservative on June 26, 2020
Collage of military uniforms and a Confederate general over a photo of troops training on a military base.

The Lost Cause’s Long Legacy

Why does the U.S. Army name its bases after generals it defeated?
by Michael Paradis via The Atlantic on June 26, 2020
A nurse takes a patient's pulse in the influenza ward. Patient beds are divided by bedsheets. The nurse wears a swath of white fabric around her face.

Commemorating the Nurses of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Female nurses served their country domestically and abroad by caring for soliders striken by the influenza pandemic.
by Allison S. Finkelstein via Arlington National Cemetery on June 12, 2020

Take the Confederate Names Off Our Army Bases

It is time to remove the names of traitors like Benning and Bragg from our country’s most important military instillations.
by David Patraeus via The Atlantic on June 9, 2020
Armed military police in riot gear blocking demonstrators near the White House, June 3, 2020.

When Police Treat Protesters Like Insurgents, Sending in Troops Seems Logical

Militarized police forces laid the groundwork for using troops to quell protest.
by Stuart Schrader via Washington Post on June 4, 2020

Roaming Charges: Super Tuesday at Manzanar

A report from the site of a former concentration camp.
by Jeffrey St. Clair via CounterPunch on March 6, 2020
Paintings of a line of people in darkness in chains behind a Black woman in the light receiving a diploma.

Slavery Reparations Seem Impossible. In Many places, They’re Already Happening.

At the local level, reparations for slavery are already being paid all over the country.
by Thai Jones via Washington Post on January 31, 2020

Fifty Years Ago Today, US Soldiers Joined the Vietnam Moratorium Protests in Mass Numbers

Soldiers who had fought in Vietnam weren’t pitted against an anti-war movement — in fact, many were actually part of it.
by Derek Seidman via Jacobin on October 15, 2019

The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919

In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre may rank as the deadliest.
by Jerome B. Karabel via New York Review of Books on September 30, 2019

The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments

Today, it’s a cutting-edge lab. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the center of the U.S. government’s darkest experiments.
by Stephen Kinzer via Politico Magazine on September 15, 2019

A Black Medic Saved Hundreds on D-Day. Was He Deprived of a Medal of Honor?

Waverly Woodson treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day, despite being injured, himself.
by Jesse Greenspan via HISTORY on June 4, 2019

Doctors Demanded Male Nurses During the Civil War. Clara Barton Defied Them.

The extraordinary woman known as the ‘Angel of the Battlefield’ eventually founded the Red Cross.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on May 6, 2019
Army nurses in Hawaii, 1945.
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The First Time the U.S. Considered Drafting Women — 75 Years Ago

Military necessity drove political support for a women’s draft.
by Pamela D. Toler via Made By History on March 21, 2019
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