Anishinaabe, Professor, Department of History, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University
New York
Joined April 2013
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Michael Witgen retweeted
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/1400…
Is the publishing world embracing a Native Renaissance 2.0? - ICT News ictnews.org/news/is-the-publ…
Michael Witgen retweeted
"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-publ…
Michael Witgen retweeted
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.”
Michael Witgen retweeted
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…
Michael Witgen retweeted
60% OFF Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
60% OFF Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
Michael Witgen retweeted
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/2024/06…
Michael Witgen retweeted
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/978163149…
Michael Witgen retweeted
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
Michael Witgen retweeted
Michael Witgen retweeted
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/skippe…
Michael Witgen retweeted
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-history-r…
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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-history-r… #twitterstorians @UNC_Press
Michael Witgen retweeted
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
Michael Witgen retweeted
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-history-r… #twitterstorians @UNC_Press
Michael Witgen retweeted
Very worth reading by the always astute Greg Ablavsky
Clarence Thomas' criticism of my research in a Native rights case reveals originalism's big flaw. slate.com/news-and-politics/…