Rick Herrera
Sr. Historian, George Washington Leadership Institute, George Washington's Mount Vernon | Ret. Prof., US Army War College | Military historian | 18c & 19c America | Author | Californian in PA | My views mine alone | amazon.com/author/raherrera
- Happily canceled my @washingtonpost.com subscription. Bezos and his kill democracy in the light and in the darkness.
- Thank you, Humanities Texas for having me speak on the AWI!
- Almost done with the biographical sketches for the 1846 officers of the RMR. Bvt. Lt. Gordon Granger, Co. K, is next. Yeah, that Granger. General Orders #3 & Juneteenth. www.thenmusa.org/biographies/...
- “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free."
- "This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.”
- "The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent & respectable Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights & previleges, if by decency & propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment."
- Washington on the U.S. and immigration. founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
- New book Monday...starting this new work by @renatakeller.bsky.social Latin America's Cold War experience is very often overlooked or simply used as a backdrop to the US-Soviet conflict, without recognizing that local actors all have agency and influence. Looking forward to this!
- Very happy to be taking part in this. scetl.asu.edu/civic-discou...
- Brilliant review.
