Tej Nagaraja
historian — Cornell U. professor — book author, “Troop Movements” (2026)
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- Reposted by Tej NagarajaThis is terrifically sad news. One of the true giants of the historical profession, endlessly curious and creative, and a genuine pioneer of new kinds of international history, especially using NGOs and culture as topics/methodology.
- Akira Iriye, one of the pioneers in the internationalization of U.S. history, passed away. RIP. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaFor today, we need to also hold up the fierce freedom fighting legacy of Coretta Scott King, Dr. King’s political partner. Eight ways to be like her for our struggle today.
- 8 ways to be like King for the struggle today—Coretta Scott King, that is —by @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com with incredible art by Howard Barry inthesetimes.com/article/mlk-...
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- 📕 proofs… ‘Troop Movements’ (2026)
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaFriends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
- The racist right-wing claims paternalistic protection over women. So, they demonize those who enact solidarity — Viola Liuzzo — Heather Heyer — Renee Good — 💐 When Liuzzo was killed — Hoover's FBI launched a smear campaign about her sexuality. Millions hate Hoover and honor Liuzzo.
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- Humbled to see that my article, was one of the most-read of the year — in the journal ‘Labor: Studies in Working Class History’. I wrote about militarism and capitalism, class and war. Checkout this + other great articles in “Labor”: lawcha.org/2025/12/23/t...
Next is"Gotta Study War Work More" (vol. 22, no. 3) by @tejnagaraja.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1547...
- Will you be at the AHA historians meeting in Chicago this week? Hope to cross paths. This week proves to be a timely moment — to discuss the links between empire and economy, class and war. These are two panels — on Saturday, January 10:
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- Watching MSNBC — an important day for breaking news about US/Venezuela war. MSNOW reports MAGA foreign-policy claims — without much fact-checking of Trump’s lies. MSNOW reports MAGA’s pro-war stance — without much mention of congressional Democrats’ anti-war consensus. #NoKings ?
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- Reposted by Tej NagarajaToday, our ten most read posts of 2025! What good is policy-adjacent scholarship? Does the 1st Amendment protect the economic infrastructure of speech? Can Trump grant Texas 40 Senators through executive order? Our brilliant authors answered these and other questions during this annus horribilis.
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaNext is"Gotta Study War Work More" (vol. 22, no. 3) by @tejnagaraja.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1547...
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- Reposted by Tej NagarajaAnd finally, "Class/War: Do Labor and Military History Work Together?" (vol. 22, no. 3) by @justinfdjackson.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1547...
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaTo wrap up the year, here are LABOR’s Most Read Articles of 2025! @dukepress.bsky.social is making these articles free for all to read from now until January 31, 2026.
- RIP Betty Reid Soskin — age 104. As a Rosie The Riveter park ranger — she was a storyteller of her own journey, and of America’s past century. My book ‘Troop Movements’ (2026) is about such ordinary/extraordinary working people — whose WW2 struggles echoed onward, for decades since. 💐
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaWhat connects labor and military history? The new LABOR Up for Debate, “The Wages of War,” tackles that question head-on. This WHOLE ROUNDTABLE is FREE to read for the next 3 months. doi.org/10.1215/1547...
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View full threadReposted by Tej NagarajaTejasvi Nagaraja’s “Gotta Study War Work More” takes us to WWII, showing how soldiers and civilians weighed the “wages of war” in pursuit of justice, democracy, and survival. doi.org/10.1215/1547...
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaOur latest issue (22:4) is now available online! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaJoel Eis explores the world of Progressive Era theater and the militancy of Yiddish actors in his new article for LaborOnline. lawcha.org/2025/12/05/y...
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaMark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans. Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills. Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaAttention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence. Details below. Please circulate widely!
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaThe Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
- Read this — ‘Surrealism Against Fascism’ by Naomi Klein. — Would suggest this fresh take be read in conversation, with Robin DG Kelley’s Freedom Dreams.
- RIP playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard — what an eclectic body of work…
- RIP the playwright Tom Stoppard — — Here’s my 2008 review of the Broadway production of “Rock 'n' Roll”, starring the great Brian Cox. ‘Stoppard — having explored the revolutions of 1848 and 1871 and 1917 — now takes on 1968 and 1989 in Rock 'n' Roll…’ indypendent.org/2008/02/what...
- Fresh new magazines — worth checking out — Long-Haul and Jamhoor 📖 📖
- Reposted by Tej Nagaraja@smh-historians.bsky.social: can labor and military history work together? I discuss below with John Hall, Reena Goldthree, @tejnagaraja.bsky.social, revisiting our debate in the most recent issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social (no paywall until February!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-V...
- 50 years ago — origin of our times: * Oct-Nov 1975 — In NYC, Wall St public-private ops usher neoliberalism. In South América, Operation Condor: a public-private, multi-polar terror war. * Oct-Nov 2025 — Lula & Mamdani meet Trump, try to hold the line — as GOP wars target NYC and América.
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- Here's video/audio of our panel discussion — on the links between labor & military concerns. w/ Rosemary Feurer, Justin F. Jackson, Reena Goldthree, John W. Hall, Tejasvi Nagaraja This accompanies our published forum in the journal Labor. Check it out! lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...
- @lawcha.bsky.social — @justinfdjackson.bsky.social — @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social "Up for Debate — The Wages of War: Debating Military and Labor History" youtu.be/jC-VfNhQARs?... with — Justin F. Jackson, Reena Goldthree, John W. Hall, Tejasvi Nagaraja read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...
- Interesting times…
- NYT's Douthat talks to NatCon's Hazony 🎧 The conservative educated-elite has been the main booster of antisemitism. Douthat+Hazony oppose condemning antisemitism. With nuance — their priority is to learn from and keep antisemitic elites as GOP operatives. podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/u...
- Reposted by Tej Nagaraja#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
- *Nov 19 — The migrant worker Joe Hill was executed — Around the world, wherever working people struggle, he lives on beside them. #1u *Nov 20 — Trans Day of Remembrance, for those lost around the world — as we cherish and champion all of our neighbors. 🏳️⚧️ An injury to one, is an injury to all.
- Reposted by Tej Nagaraja"This marks a huge win for the broad coalition of faculty, staff, students, and labor unions that brought the lawsuit..." @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @afscme.bsky.social @nationalnurses.bsky.social @seiu.org @uaw.org
- Reposted by Tej Nagaraja‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaThe Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:
- Cornell Chapter of the AAUP Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government aaup-cornell.org/2025/11/07/s...
- 11-4-1975 — Halloween Massacre led by Rumsfeld and protégé #Cheney. For 50 years, GOP leads DNC — with adaptive repertoire of executive power, foreign war, class war. Trump/Vance take it to new levels. 11-4-2025 — Among new DNC electeds, some will acquiesce; while others seek a new horizon.
- 📣 Awesome documentary reporting from the brilliant Anjali Kamat — on working-class South Asian politics in NYC. #DemocracyNow Over a quarter-century, from post-9/11 to 2025 — working-class organizing, from DRUM to Taxi Workers, has made a mark on NYC. #1u
- ‘Mamdani appeared on a panel with anti-caste activist Prachi Patankar — and emphasized the need for leadership from Dalit & marginalized caste communities, to counter the rise of Hindu nationalism… Mamdani cosponsored a caste protection bill in New York state.’ newlinesmag.com/argument/wha...
- Workers engaged BLM, MeToo, unions — to challenge corporate hierarchies. Yet billionaire elites use anti-woke, anti-DEI, anti-Pal, anti-trans — to suppress worker voice & all speech. “You’re fired!” is always core Trump slogan. All political issues today, are about worker democracy vs boss power.
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaThis was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
- For better or for worse, Americans have no shared understanding of a spectrum — of what terms like moderate, liberal, progressive, left mean. MSNBC says, that the GOP says: “The left [Jeffries] has been taken over by its progressive wing [Mamdani].” 🧐 youtu.be/JHlzpY5M6RE?...
- JCPA — ‘We must remain clear-eyed about how antisemitic extremism, is being mainstreamed in the highest levels of power — avowed neo-Nazis in senior government roles; the embrace of deadly conspiracy theories that inspire violence; the gutting of programs intended to counter domestic extremism.‘
- An injury to one, is an injury to all. #TreeOfLife
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- ‘Seven years ago — was the deadliest act of antisemitic violence in US history.’ ‘We explain how the antisemitic, anti-immigrant, racist lies spread by Trump and MAGA politicians motivated the shooter — and continue to pose a threat to our collective safety.’ www.bendthearc.us/new_video_7_...
- An injury to one, is an injury to all. #TreeOfLife
- 2018, Oct 27 — Pittsburgh massacre 2019 — El Paso 2022 — Buffalo The biggest-ever antisemitic violence in USA — killing Jewish, Latino, Black people. Top MAGA-GOP leaders boost "gre*t repl*cement" and "wh*te genoc*de" antisemitism. Why won't Democrats and the media, confront this antisemitism?
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaHey @smh-historians.bsky.social: interested in connecting American labor and military history? Check out our debate on "The Wages of War" in the new Sept. 2025 issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social, including essays by John Hall, Reena Goldthree, and Tej Nagaraja...
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- Reposted by Tej NagarajaJoin us next Tuesday to hear about my book Box 25:Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal. @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social thanks to @iehs.bsky.social for organizing this!
- ***Immigration and Ethnic History Society Online Books Series - October 2025*** Join Julie Greene and Brendan A. Shanahan for a discussion of their recent publications! The panel will be moderated by Michael Salgarolo. October 28, 2025, 4:15-5:30PM EST Register: iehs.org/event/online...
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaYou can judge this issue @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social by the cover! Don't miss @justinfdjackson.bsky.social's important essay on the connections between labor history and military history, with responses from John Hall, Reena Goldthree and @tejnagaraja.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social
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- Sharing my new article — "Gotta Study War Work More." 'How can we interpret the relationship between warfare and workers?' read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...
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- Trump relies on elite support — against majority opinion — more than any president in a century? Has any president launched & escalated US wars, with less public support, than Trump? Has any president launched & escalated attacks on US workers, with less public support, than Trump?
- Reposted by Tej Nagaraja"At 100, Ms. Ginger was among the last of a generation of lawyers and activists who weathered McCarthyism and the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort during the 1960s and after." 🧵
- Reposted by Tej NagarajaMy book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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