Michael Witgen

Anishinaabe, Professor, Department of History, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University

[Wendy Weiser @WendyRWeiser]

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:  https://t.co/xXDSQeAOVa

[Michael Witgen @MJWitgen]

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

[Michael Witgen @MJWitgen]

Is the publishing world embracing a Native Renaissance 2.0? - ICT News https://t.co/fAUHtKBDU4

[UNC Press @UNC_Press]

"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 👏

https://t.co/3ClWuohqCc

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Dude should probably drop out.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

OH MY GOD

Line of the night

He’s clearly having a hard time processing it.

[Aliyah Chavez @AliyahJChavez]

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.”

[Daniel Kleven @danieleleven32]

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

https://t.co/kasqTAvsP7

[Michael Witgen @MJWitgen]

60% OFF Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America https://t.co/bCuwYeTq7R

[Michael Witgen @MJWitgen]

60% OFF Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America https://t.co/bCuwYeTq7R

[Francisco Cantú @_franciscocantu]

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:
https://t.co/Euy17TEelQ

[Manisha Sinha @ProfMSinha]

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 https://t.co/Yldf5cNwjs

[UNC Press @UNC_Press]

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

https://t.co/xQxcckInhH

[PSU History Dept. @PSUHistory]

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”

[Michael Witgen @MJWitgen]

@JeaniOBrien @nickwestes And they paid her attorneys fees!

[Skipped History @SkippedHistory]

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: https://t.co/yU1eVY1JBu

[ColumbiaSocialSci @ColumbiaSocSci]

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

https://t.co/ArE800FmwA

@CUHistoryDept @CSERColumbia

[UNC Press @UNC_Press]

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⬇️

https://t.co/3B6bFGafkP

[OIEAHC @OIEAHC]

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: https://t.co/HOlDNzY7zi #twitterstorians @UNC_Press