Andrew Orr

Epic sieges, desperate battles, and spies pepper this story of Orientalism, racism, and French imperialism during the Ottoman collapse. Direct orders ship from @Kansas_Press starting Monday. General pub is next month - but you can get yours right away! kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700637775/…

We are thrilled to announce that the George M. Kren Research Prize has been awarded to Heather McCrea and Michael Krysko, specifically for faculty with an established emphasis in cultural and intellectual history. Congratulations to both Heather McCrea and Michael Krysko!

@ChuckDeVore @wapo Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow . . .

I'm anticipating the @wapo obituary.

@kansasjoyce Not me, but I do remember getting papers back from professors that smelled of cigarette smoke.

How many of us remember opening envelopes that contained proposals, manuscripts, or readers' reports that smelled of cigarette smoke? Probably not too many these days.

Extremely Proud of my PhD student Korey Lantes for winning Air and Space Forces best article prize!

PhD student Lt. Colonel Korey "Bounce" Lantes won Air and Space Forces best article prize for "REFORPAC’s Pacific Playbook: Survive, Surge, Sustain and Synchronize to Win". Journal of the Air Force Historical Foundation. Fall 2025, Vol. 72 #3, p7-20. afhistory.org/wp-content/upl…

Dr. Eric Brandom's HIST 410 class was highlighted in K-State Today! tinyurl.com/KStateHistoryc…

Thrilled to have been on Fili Creative's "Ask a Kansan" podcast. I enjoyed talking about @KStateHistory, military history, science fiction, and being a professor. For some reason my episode is "The Compassionate Kansan." youtube.com/watch?v=0PXFOn…

This was not on my 2025 bingo card: I got interviewed for this Politiken story on Trump's military parade: politiken.dk/internationalt…

Today was my first day as chair of K-State's History Department.

Enjoyed visiting the Smokey Hills Museum in Salina to speak on "World War II Close to Home." I met great people and had a fabulous time. The talk will be up until the end of Tuesday. facebook.com/SmokyHillMuseu…

Thrilled that my chapter "Civil War and Ethnic Cleansing" has come out in "A Cultural History of War in the Modern Age," the final book in Bloomsbury's "A Cultural History of War." bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-hi…

Congrats to Cottonwood Connections for their 2 episode series on Kansas and the Cold War. I am honored to have been part of their amazing work again. @KStateHistory loves being part of Kansas history. youtube.com/watch?v=4Q-mpE… youtube.com/watch?v=NNOpWh…

@books2cover @SWWResearchNA Yeah that's not mine.

Always nice to see @TotalMilHistory's fine work reviewed:

The U.S. should be standing with Ukraine and Europe, but Europe can and should stand with Ukraine regardless of American policy. Or as some of us wrote last year: democratic-strategy.net/publications

We have a date for the next Flint Hills Military Symposium - November 7-9, 2025. This year, the Kansas State University History Department is proud to partner with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.

@HerreraMilHist @SMH_Historians @SocHistoryWar I am so looking forward to this book!

congrats to my friend and colleague Michael Krysko on his achievement! I proud to work with people like him

@plichta_marcel When playing Victoria 2 (or Vic 1 b/c I still play that) as the US I do always take Greenland and Canada . . . and all of Panama, really anything I can get my hands on. I once bought Ireland from the UK b/c its an Atlantic Island . . . not sure that's still workable.

As an hardened veteran of Hearts of Iron 4 and Victoria 2, my opinion on the Denmark/Yemen/Russia/Iran/China situation is-

Here come the Irish! Win it all!

Enjoyed reading my former colleague @mewalters101 's and @JacobStoil 's take on how to keep the peace in Gaza long term.