David Fedman
@dfeds.bsky.social
historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
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Some people complain that they do not think military history is popular; We LOVE it at TTU. We are hiring TT in US War and Society Pre-1945
We are also hiring modern South/Southeast Asia and Medieval Europe.
networks.h-net.org/jobs/70330/t...
We are also hiring modern South/Southeast Asia and Medieval Europe.
networks.h-net.org/jobs/70330/t...
Texas Tech University - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of United States War & Society, pre-1945 | H-Net
As a faculty member in the Department of History, you will be expected to:
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September 14, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Some people complain that they do not think military history is popular; We LOVE it at TTU. We are hiring TT in US War and Society Pre-1945
We are also hiring modern South/Southeast Asia and Medieval Europe.
networks.h-net.org/jobs/70330/t...
We are also hiring modern South/Southeast Asia and Medieval Europe.
networks.h-net.org/jobs/70330/t...
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Map of conflagrations in 1942 causing more than a quarter-million-dollar's worth of damage, compiled by the NFPA (whose members, mostly fire prevention-professionals, were instrumental in weaponizing fire and delivering it across the Pacific)
September 11, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Map of conflagrations in 1942 causing more than a quarter-million-dollar's worth of damage, compiled by the NFPA (whose members, mostly fire prevention-professionals, were instrumental in weaponizing fire and delivering it across the Pacific)
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Last month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.
September 11, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Last month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.
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Tough problem to solve, too. Sink $400 million (must be way more than that) & accept that Iran could just whack it again. Fall back to Diego Garcia (like now) & accept the distance penalty. Maybe scatter to Oman (Salalah, Duqm) or UAE but still vulnerable + inefficient. No one site replaces Bahrain
Navy Leader Says Iran ‘Blew the Hell’ Out of the U.S. Base in Bahrain; Damage Estimated at $400 Million
Navy Leader Says Iran ‘Blew the Hell’ Out of the U.S. Base in Bahrain
Acting Secretary Hung Cao said this week that the Navy is weighing whether to repair the base that’s been rendered unusable.
washingtonsun.com
September 11, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Tough problem to solve, too. Sink $400 million (must be way more than that) & accept that Iran could just whack it again. Fall back to Diego Garcia (like now) & accept the distance penalty. Maybe scatter to Oman (Salalah, Duqm) or UAE but still vulnerable + inefficient. No one site replaces Bahrain
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Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
September 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
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“You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate…I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
September 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
“You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate…I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."
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Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
September 11, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
Map of conflagrations in 1942 causing more than a quarter-million-dollar's worth of damage, compiled by the NFPA (whose members, mostly fire prevention-professionals, were instrumental in weaponizing fire and delivering it across the Pacific)
September 11, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Map of conflagrations in 1942 causing more than a quarter-million-dollar's worth of damage, compiled by the NFPA (whose members, mostly fire prevention-professionals, were instrumental in weaponizing fire and delivering it across the Pacific)
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If you're lucky, someone will eventually review your book in a way that almost makes you jealous of their insights into the material. It's fair to say that the historian Gabe Winant has just published that review of my book. dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
dissentmagazine.org
September 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
If you're lucky, someone will eventually review your book in a way that almost makes you jealous of their insights into the material. It's fair to say that the historian Gabe Winant has just published that review of my book. dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
And if you happen to be in Tokyo please go see them for yourself! Here's our running inventory, including geolocation data:
www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...
It's been fun to set students loose on the city with the coordinates and see what they learn about war memory through a good ol wander
www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...
It's been fun to set students loose on the city with the coordinates and see what they learn about war memory through a good ol wander
September 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
And if you happen to be in Tokyo please go see them for yourself! Here's our running inventory, including geolocation data:
www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...
It's been fun to set students loose on the city with the coordinates and see what they learn about war memory through a good ol wander
www.davidfedman.org/tokyos-warda...
It's been fun to set students loose on the city with the coordinates and see what they learn about war memory through a good ol wander
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Could be some complications with doing ‘Venezuela’ in Iran.
Anyway, sure am glad the ‘President of Peace’ is steering clear of forever wars.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Anyway, sure am glad the ‘President of Peace’ is steering clear of forever wars.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Exclusive | Trump’s Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term
The president still says he expects the war will end “immediately” after midterm elections this fall.
www.wsj.com
September 10, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Could be some complications with doing ‘Venezuela’ in Iran.
Anyway, sure am glad the ‘President of Peace’ is steering clear of forever wars.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Anyway, sure am glad the ‘President of Peace’ is steering clear of forever wars.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
and while I'm at it, I'll share an excellent new (open access) article by Dylan Plung on the US Strategic Bomb Survey in Japan & the many interpretive perils that lurk beneath the surface of its scientific polish
Ive wanted someone to write this for a long time!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ive wanted someone to write this for a long time!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 9, 2026 at 11:30 PM
and while I'm at it, I'll share an excellent new (open access) article by Dylan Plung on the US Strategic Bomb Survey in Japan & the many interpretive perils that lurk beneath the surface of its scientific polish
Ive wanted someone to write this for a long time!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ive wanted someone to write this for a long time!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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my bet is that he'll flip if it's a 50-50 or 51-49 dem senate, so dems need to somehow get to 52 to be safe
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. John Fetterman is preparing to make a bombshell appearance tonight at the GOP convention in a video praising President Trump and Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Dave McCormick
Exclusive: Fetterman to praise Trump in bombshell GOP convention video
His stunning turn is a dramatic escalation in the senator's growing estrangement from Democrats.
www.axios.com
September 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
my bet is that he'll flip if it's a 50-50 or 51-49 dem senate, so dems need to somehow get to 52 to be safe
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Hi friends, happy to share a labor of love: an essay in the latest issue of Environmental History on Tokyo's war-damaged trees (戦災樹木), the more than 200 hundreds trees scattered across the city that carry scars of wartime bombing in their morphology
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0
September 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Hi friends, happy to share a labor of love: an essay in the latest issue of Environmental History on Tokyo's war-damaged trees (戦災樹木), the more than 200 hundreds trees scattered across the city that carry scars of wartime bombing in their morphology
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0
Hi friends, happy to share a labor of love: an essay in the latest issue of Environmental History on Tokyo's war-damaged trees (戦災樹木), the more than 200 hundreds trees scattered across the city that carry scars of wartime bombing in their morphology
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0
September 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Hi friends, happy to share a labor of love: an essay in the latest issue of Environmental History on Tokyo's war-damaged trees (戦災樹木), the more than 200 hundreds trees scattered across the city that carry scars of wartime bombing in their morphology
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/0/0
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In their coverage tonight ABC News studiously avoided any mention of climate change. But in the Himalayas the threat of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) is well-known.
August 27, 2026 at 5:22 AM
In their coverage tonight ABC News studiously avoided any mention of climate change. But in the Himalayas the threat of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) is well-known.
TIL the man chiefly responsible for all firefighting efforts across the UK during World War II was named Aylmer Firebrace
(He gave quite a lecture in 1943 to the American chemists developing new incendiary weapons on fire's "obliterating capacities")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylmer_...
(He gave quite a lecture in 1943 to the American chemists developing new incendiary weapons on fire's "obliterating capacities")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylmer_...
Aylmer Firebrace - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 20, 2026 at 6:38 PM
TIL the man chiefly responsible for all firefighting efforts across the UK during World War II was named Aylmer Firebrace
(He gave quite a lecture in 1943 to the American chemists developing new incendiary weapons on fire's "obliterating capacities")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylmer_...
(He gave quite a lecture in 1943 to the American chemists developing new incendiary weapons on fire's "obliterating capacities")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylmer_...
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Grab a paperback copy for a mere $18.00! Use the discount code NYUP50.
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For Liberty and the Republic
In the early decades of the American Republic, American soldiers demonstrated and defined their beliefs about the nature of American republicanism and how th...
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August 18, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Grab a paperback copy for a mere $18.00! Use the discount code NYUP50.
nyupress.org/978147986790...
nyupress.org/978147986790...
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Very excited to see this in print!
"The colonial state was remarkably willing to publicise violence committed by Mau Mau. It was far more cautious about exposing its own."
Lauren Brown on photography during the Kenya Emergency.
Lauren Brown on photography during the Kenya Emergency.
Colonial Kenya and the Politics of Visibility
During the Kenya Emergency, photography became a vital tool for psychological warfare. Lauren Brown explores how the colonial state used violent images to demonise African insurgents.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
August 18, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Very excited to see this in print!
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OK. @jamellebouie.net has a great takedown of our pundit class. Exhibit 1 is David Brooks. Guess what? Yale just hired him to teach undergrads. 1/ youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?...
The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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August 18, 2026 at 12:20 PM
OK. @jamellebouie.net has a great takedown of our pundit class. Exhibit 1 is David Brooks. Guess what? Yale just hired him to teach undergrads. 1/ youtu.be/46tpqFxfomI?...
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Something feels off about this June 1943 roundtable on "Pregnancy and Delivery During Air Raids." I just can't put my finger on it...
August 16, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Something feels off about this June 1943 roundtable on "Pregnancy and Delivery During Air Raids." I just can't put my finger on it...
Something feels off about this June 1943 roundtable on "Pregnancy and Delivery During Air Raids." I just can't put my finger on it...
August 16, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Something feels off about this June 1943 roundtable on "Pregnancy and Delivery During Air Raids." I just can't put my finger on it...
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The Pentagon is introducing a Western civilization course in its military-family schools that emphasizes Christianity and classical education.
The move is part of Pete Hegseth’s broader push to make the roughly 160 Pentagon-run schools more patriotic and classically oriented.
The move is part of Pete Hegseth’s broader push to make the roughly 160 Pentagon-run schools more patriotic and classically oriented.
August 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
The Pentagon is introducing a Western civilization course in its military-family schools that emphasizes Christianity and classical education.
The move is part of Pete Hegseth’s broader push to make the roughly 160 Pentagon-run schools more patriotic and classically oriented.
The move is part of Pete Hegseth’s broader push to make the roughly 160 Pentagon-run schools more patriotic and classically oriented.