Andrew J. Huebner is a Professor of History at the University of Alabama who focuses on modern U.S. cultural and military history. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (OAH), author of the acclaimed books Love and Death in the Great War and The Warrior Image, and co-editor of The Cambridge History of War and Society in America. He is currently finishing a new history of the buffalo soldiers, the first Black regular army units in US history, established by Congress in 1866.
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It troubles me that these soldiers were sent to fight indigenous people and it also troubles me that, what I consider to be an important piece of the story, is given only one sentence. Perhaps you are planning another video to expand on that topic.
this made me weep, and be proud at the same time. and made me think of the song Buffalo Soldiers, fighting for survival. our brothers, all