Excited to announce that my @lsupress book, Soldiers from Experience, analyzing the origins and evolution of tactical culture in Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps during the American Civil War is now shipping from Amazon! https://t.co/pVYi3kXS53
Nearly 160 years ago this month, my great great great grandfather, Etienne Agnor Larrieu, a free person of color from New Orleans, signed on as a Paymaster’s Clerk aboard the USS Sachem then fitting out for the expedition to put down the secessionist rebellion in Texas. 1/x
@NoFresherThanK No way!! That’s 100% him! Are the letters still in the covers? I’d love to see photos of the letters themselves! Thanks so much for reaching out!
@achille610@XFreeze Or, you know, connects anything at all. Right now it’s the first “encyclopedia” for hundreds of years to contain no attempt whatsoever at cross-referencing of any kind. Eager to see how that is rectified in the hopefully near future, because right now it’s just a database.
@GhostofMaxE@lsanger Absolutely. Nothing preventing it happening in principle (though I know absolutely nothing about the technology involved or if that represents a hindrance on that or similar scored).
I recognize we are in early days here. Just making observations.
@GhostofMaxE@lsanger It’s fine to assert that extant competitors summarize knowledge through a lens contrary to the lens you define as “truth.” It’s another thing entirely to sacrifice the entire encyclopedic enterprise on the altar of politically re-framing the arguments certain articles make.
@GhostofMaxE@lsanger That isn’t a cross-reference. That’s a reference. An encyclopedia, as we know it, constitutes a self-contained summary of human knowledge that highlights interconnections between and within the whole. Hypertext represents the best way of doing that. Grokipedia (yet) has none.
In the latest episode of our podcast "Civil War Curious," historian Eric Michael Burke answers questions about Civil War soldiers and the weapons they used. Sponsored by our friends at @Battlefields. Listen here: https://t.co/bIfne4HQMA
Apropos of nothing at all, I just want to observe that the P-47 was officially redesigned the F-47 in 1947. It remained in service until 1953.
So what we are really talking about is an F-47 II.
Kulturfrage for my Bundeswehr followers: I’ve noticed quite a few junior enlisted wearing their Feldmütze with the crown folded forward to the point that it practically looks like a Schiebermütze. Is that actually authorized? And if so… why?
@EinstEinAdler Precisely the kind of insight I looked forward to from you! Many thanks. Informal sartorial culture amongst soldiers, most especially in fatigue dress, is truly fascinating always.
@SpitfireFilly Reporting is back to 500kg. As far as I know nothing in the Allied aerial arsenal fits that payload, but it also doesn’t look as cylindrical as a Sprengbombe.
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