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American historian and former army officer

James Tyrus Seidule (born 1962)^{[citation needed]} is a retired United States Armybrigadier general, the former head of the history department at the United States Military Academy,^[1] the first professor emeritus of history at West Point, and the inaugural Joshua Chamberlain Fellow at Hamilton College.^[2] Seidule is also the Presidential Advisor to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans and a fellow at New America.^[2] In February 2021, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appointed Seidule as one of four representatives of the US Department of Defense to the Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense that Commemorate the Confederate States of America or Any Person Who Served Voluntarily with the Confederate States of America, including US Army installations named for Confederate soldiers.^[3]

Early life and later career

Ty Seidule was born in Alexandria, V