Check it out, #VastEarlyAmerica! OI author and Council Chair Michael Witgen discusses research from his book, Seeing Red, in this recent piece by WPR. Listen here: wpr.org/correcting-his… #twitterstorians 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 Michael Witgen on the blog⬇️ bit.ly/3KyQlO8

Professor Michael Witgen 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… CU History Department CSER

I'm delighted to share an interview with Michael Witgen, 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…

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

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! Liveright Books UConn History Dept 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 Michael Witgen (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe). OIEAHC bit.ly/47aDv1P

#NativeAmericanHistoryMonth #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, "Seeing Red" by Michael Witgen (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), a Pulitzer finalist and Organization of American Historians James A. Rawley Prize title. catalog.library.txstate.edu/record=b580897… at #TXSTUniversityLibraries @AlkekLibrary

My review of SEEING RED by Michael Witgen, finalist for last year's Pulitzer Prize in The New York Review of Books. 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/…

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

Just updated the Organization of American Historians 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 Michael Witgen @DestinKJenkins Vincent Brown goodreads.com/award/show/144…

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.”

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

Dude should probably drop out.

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

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

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

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…