Brigadier General Ty Seidule, U.S. Army (Retired) is Professor Emeritus of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Ty is now a Visiting Professor of History and Executive Director of Common Ground, A Program for Active Citizenship at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY.
In 2021, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appointed Ty to the Congressional Naming Commission tasked with redesignating Department of Defense assets which honor Confederates. His fellow commissioners elected him as Vice Chair. Ty’s forthcoming book is A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation’s Military Bases. In 2021, Ty’s book Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause made NPR, Forbes and others best books of 2021 list. Ty has written or edited five other books, four of which won writing prizes, including the West Point History of the Civil War. His short video, "Was the Civil War About Slavery" has 35 million views on social media. He serves as an International Security Fellow at New America and on the Scholar Advisory Board for the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History. |
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