Dr. Robert Greene II

A two-year labor of love...that I can finally hold in my hands. @ProfTDParry keep an eye out! #twitterstorians

Hello all, here is the CFP for the 2027 @AAIHS conference, being held in Boston, MA! aaihs.org/call-for-paper…

One of my favorite moments in 26 years of working at public libraries is when an immigrant from a country comes in to get a library card and we go over all the services available. When they ask how much is a library card and I explain that it is free, the shock and delight is so incredibly heartwarming. Those are the moments that keep me going even when leaders attacks libraries libraries and attacks immigrants. Every country don’t realize how wonderful their public libraries are. At my public library we have books of course, but we also have a community herb garden, telescope, explorer backpacks, museum passes, video games, many streaming services, seed library, baby grand piano for recitals, and we are working to develop more library of things.

Sam Neill (1947–2026)

A Japanese American kid from New Mexico won the Medal of Honor in Korea, and the United States kept it a secret for over two years because telling the truth might have gotten him killed. Hiroshi Miyamura, called Hershey by everyone who knew him, was born in Gallup, New Mexico, to Japanese immigrant parents. He grew up in the shadow of Pearl Harbor and the internment camps, a time when a lot of Americans looked at a face like his and saw the enemy. He joined the Army anyway, signing up with the famous all Japanese American unit in World War II, determined to prove exactly where his loyalty was. His real test came in Korea. On the night of April 24, 1951, near the Imjin River, the Chinese launched one of their massive human wave attacks and came at his position in the dark by the thousands. Miyamura was running a machine gun squad, and he could see they were about to be overrun. So he made the call. He ordered his men to fall back and get out, and he stayed behind alone to hold the enemy off and buy them time. What he did next is almost hard to believe. He worked his machine gun until it was about to be swarmed, then jumped out of the hole with his bayonet and fought the enemy hand to hand. He went back to another gun and kept firing. He administered aid to his wounded, he fell back only when he had to, and then he fought some more. By the time it was over he had killed a staggering number of the enemy, more than fifty men, holding an entire assault by himself long enough for his squad to escape. Then, badly wounded, he was captured. Here is where the story turns into something no other Medal of Honor has ever done. When the Army learned he had been captured, they realized the medal they wanted to give him was a death sentence. If the Chinese found out that this one prisoner had killed fifty of their soldiers, they would surely torture and execute him. So the United States took his Medal of Honor and stamped it top secret. To this day it is the only Medal of Honor ever classified. It sat locked away, unspoken, for more than two years. And Miyamura had no idea. He spent twenty eight months as a prisoner, marched hundreds of miles, starved, beaten, watching men die all around him in the camps. When he was finally released at the end of the war, he honestly believed he might be in trouble, court martialed even, for losing his position and his men that night. Instead they told him the secret. The kid from Gallup had won the nation's highest honor, and it had been waiting for him the whole time he was in that camp. President Eisenhower himself hung it around his neck in 1953. A Japanese American who had to prove his loyalty his entire life had proven it beyond anything anyone could ever question again.

As England and Norway play in the World Cup quarter final, it’s time to remember when Norwegian radio commentator Bjørge Lillelien delivered one of the most iconic commentaries of all time after Norway beat England 2-1 in a World Cup qualifying match in Oslo back in 1981: "We have beaten England! Lord Nelson. Lord Beaverbrook. Sir Winston Churchill. Sir Anthony Eden. Clement Attlee. Henry Cooper. Lady Diana. We have beaten all of them! Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher...Your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!" #ENGNOR

Com a eliminação da Colômbia, só sobraram dois países sul-americanos pra torcer.

On the morning of July 10, 1863, Black soldiers of the 1st South Carolina Infantry liberated more than 100 enslaved people in the rice fields near Willtown Bluff, along the South Edisto River. 🧵

I enjoyed chatting with @byAustinMeek about college football in the '90s. One more example of how understanding college football is central to understanding American history and the history of higher education.

Another triumph for France at the World Cup! On to the semifinals. youtube.com/watch?v=Tso6Z0…

At first I wrote a piece about CJ2K and how folks expect toughness even in the most adverse times. And then I wrote something for the caretakers — of our loved ones and journalism overall for @andscape

Arthur Ashe plays Charlie Pasarell at the Lincoln Park block party. For many of the kids watching the match, this was their first time seeing the sport. (Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post)

The Declaration of Independence is translated into German for Pennsylvania’s German residents, who do not speak English.

I KNEW which one it was before I even turned up the volume!

Right??? 😭🥺

Important persona news. I have decided on a Dynasty Mode squad for CFB27. Headed to the Boro. Folks. We are going to run the damn football. youtu.be/02t-qgwhmm8

@AU_GS_Walt You know what? That's a good point. And from what I understand, the original red card being handed out the way it was didn't exactly conform with the rules, either.

@robgreeneII I saw someone say confirmed through 2 sources that Trump called FIFA & asked for an explanation of the rule & was told it was under review but he didn’t influence the decision. And I agree with the person who said if Trump WAS a part of overturning, he wouldn’t shut up about it

Here is me talking baseball history on a local newscast here in South Carolina: youtu.be/yCVnoKyVn8M?is…

Cape Verde's World Cup heroes have landed back home, greeted by saluting airport staff and hundreds of fans 🇨🇻 Today is also the 51st anniversary of the country's independence. Have a day, Cape Verde 💙

This quote goes so hard.