Michael Witgen

Today President Trump said that birthright citizenship just "had to do with the babies of slaves." That is plainly wrong. Historian Martha Jones & the Brennan Center's Historians Council member Kate Masur explain that the history says otherwise here:  brennancenter.org/media/14006/do…

So tell me how do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr. Death … apparently with eye liner

Is the publishing world embracing a Native Renaissance 2.0? - ICT News ictnews.org/news/is-the-pu…

"Native authors may finally be here to stay." Happy to see SEEING RED by @MJWitgen included in this list by @IndianCountry of books by Native American authors 👏 ictnews.org/news/is-the-pu…

Dude should probably drop out.

OH MY GOD Line of the night He’s clearly having a hard time processing it.

VP Kamala Harris vows before a crowd of 15,000 in Arizona, “I will respect tribal sovereignty.” She went on to say: “Every Native community is a place of opportunity.”

Just updated the @The_OAH James A. Rawley Prize on @goodreads given annually to "the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States." recent winners include: @kgmkenny @MJWitgen @DestinKJenkins Vincent Brown goodreads.com/award/show/144…

60% OFF Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

My review of SEEING RED by @MJWitgen, finalist for last year's Pulitzer Prize in @nybooks. As an examination of the narratives and policies that enabled sweeping and quotidian forms of dispossession (and ongoing resistance), it's as relevant now as ever: nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Het #twitterstorians I got back from the USIH conference in Denver to this good news. The audio rights for The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic have been sold and the first blurbs are in! @LiverightPub @UConnHistory wwnorton.com/books/97816314…

We're celebrating #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth by highlighting books written by Native American authors. Today on the blog you can read an excerpt from Pulitzer Prize finalist, SEEING RED by @MJWitgen (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe). @OIEAHC bit.ly/47aDv1P

On Sept. 14th at 4pm in Foster 102, Paterno @psulibs, we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Michael J. Witgen of @Columbia as our 2023 Burke M. "Dutch" Hermann Endowed Lecturer in American History “Unthinkable History: The American Settler State and the Political Economy of Plunder”

@JeaniOBrien @nickwestes And they paid her attorneys fees!

@nickwestes But with a huge golden parachute and no admission of her fraud. Sad!

Professor leaving after being dubbed ‘pretendian’ for years insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

I'm delighted to share an interview with @MJWitgen, reframing Native history in the Old Northwest. "The country we live in was created not only by Indigenous dispossession but by taking the money that was meant to compensate them," he told me: open.substack.com/pub/skippedhis…

Professor @MJWitgen discussed research from his book, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, for a recent @wpr piece wpr.org/correcting-his… @CUHistoryDept @CSERColumbia

Read an excerpt of 2023 Pulitzer Prize in History Finalist, SEEING RED: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgen @MJWitgen on the blog⬇️ bit.ly/3KyQlO8

Check it out, #VastEarlyAmerica! OI author and Council Chair @MJWitgen discusses research from his book, Seeing Red, in this recent piece by @WPR. Listen here: wpr.org/correcting-his… #twitterstorians @UNC_Press