Jared Samuelson

I have a new article out in the Journal of Contemporary History: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It examines Soviet humanitarianism by focusing on Soviet Red Cross hospitals in Tehran, Addis Ababa, and Phnom Penh.

📷 Soviet Red Cross hospital in Addis Ababa, ICRC Audiovisual Archives

A Pope is expected to have ... enthusiasms.

It appeared under "Festive Films" on my British Airways flight yesterday, which, I believe, counts as an endorsement.

The Story of the 1985 Chicago Bears by NFL Films

Nope.

USMC memorial at Bladensburg

Marker at Bladensburg falsely identifying Commodore Barney's force as Marines rather than flotillamen.

Marine propaganda remains undefeated. Barney did have ~100 Marines ... and 400 Flotillamen.

#navalhistory

Something to aspire to for any lottery winners with a maritime background.

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USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

"The key to winning “Littoral Commander” can be summed as: “What can be seen can be destroyed, so don’t be seen.”"

If I have any friends attending McMullen, I'll be there Thursday night and Friday morning. Say hi!

Illinois here

Dad Rock band at the neighborhood bbq fest played 7-Nation Army and I instantly aged 30 years.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

"run"

Auburn math

You're missing Gennings

One article submitted for consideration; one revision submitted to a reviewer. Solid Sunday of work.

Three kids quietly hanging out while dad visits an archive.

All I'm saying is you should get a few extra credit points if you do your archive visits with 3 small children in tow.

Japanese Destroyer Captain

Introducing Ocean Art, my new illustrated book. Out in August.
Featuring some of the most striking and meaningful images of sea creatures from ancient times to modern and from the coasts to the deepest abyss, I reflect on how art shapes our view of marine life
🦑🐟🐙🦈
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/ocean-art

TUSK!

Flicking through some 1799 Captain’s letters and found this gem—a flag officer’s set of signals. These were issued locally to captains before standardised fleet-wide signals came into use. A great glimpse into pre-1800 naval comms!
#SignalHistory #AgeOfSail

Post-firing Conan was one of the best TV runs in history.

@andreapitzer.bsky.social?

Saw it with my high school friends and then we drove back to my buddy's house in the country ... in the woods ... No one slept.

Dinky Toys ad for an F-4K toy with the words, "Do not point missiles at people."

Solid advice

Sea Control 581: The MLR's Missing Link Sea Control · Episode

In the latest episode of #SeaControl, I hosted Captains Brendan Costello and Tyler Muniz of the #USMC to discuss their article “The #Marine #Littoral #Regiment’s Missing Link."

Sea Control is produced by CIMSEC (@cimsec.bsky.social). Give it a listen!

#PME #ReadFightWin #WriteFightWin