Eric Michael Burke

Historian. Ph.D @UNC. Intellectual and cultural history of warfare. Combat infantry vet. Bibliophile, Philomath, Antiquarian. All views my own.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

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

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@NoFresherThanK Still very very cool! Thanks again for sharing!

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

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

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@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!

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@mblair @lsanger Chambers > Diderot every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@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.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@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.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@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.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@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.

[The Civil War Monitor @CivilWarMonitor]

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

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

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.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@EinstEinAdler In this particular case I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that they’re actively engaged in a Hauptbahnhof seizure exercise.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

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?

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@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.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

It feels like an attempt at a “Ranger roll” with a U.S. patrol cap, but… I just can’t figure it out.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@EinstEinAdler Hilfe, bitte?

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@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.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

If indeed 300kg, its almost certainly Allied, correct? I originally was thinking Luftwaffe given the original 500kg reporting.

[Fabien Villedieu @VilledieuFabien]

voilà la bombe(300kg) découverte cette nuit lors des travaux ferroviaires.

[Eric Michael Burke @xv40rds]

@SpitfireFilly SC500?

[Prime and Load Podcast @PrimeandLoad]

Welcome to Prime and Load, a podcast covering eighteenth-century warfare. Get ready to dive into a surprising and exciting period of military history!
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