Historian of politics, the state and movements in the US. @RUHistoryDept, @SFNDHE, series editor Power, Politics and the World @PennPresshttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3mg3rzanyn225@sfndhe.bsky.social is working with @aaup.org's CDAF and the Critical Legal Collective to imagine new futures for #highered. Join us for our next webinar in the series! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Mar 2026 17:34 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3rzanyn225https://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lnymih52sc2cThanks to @rolandpeters.bsky.social for such a thoughtful conversation about anti-internationalism, sovereigntism, and the right. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2025 01:12 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnymih52sc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lksrmdqbzk2bThe full effects of cuts to federal funding for #highered— the view from March Madness schools. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Mar 2025 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lksrmdqbzk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lkludcomuk2pJust received notice that my 2018 op-ed for the USAWC's War Room, "Less War, More College," was being purged from Army website as per the #DEI guidance from #DOD secretary #hegseth. It discussed the value of diverse perspectives and people in the USAWC classroom.17 Mar 2025 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkludcomuk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lip7aotxk22g@sethcotlar.bsky.social Including reclaiming NYC as sovereign territory. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Feb 2025 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lip7aotxk22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lip76uzmm22g@sethcotlar.bsky.social Here come the sovereigntists! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Feb 2025 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lip76uzmm22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3liozqcyjxs2gThe sovereigntist agenda: Mike Lee’s bill to pull the US out of the UN. https://www.lee.senate.gov/services/files/596172FB-FA97-4CDD-B1B2-23B38BBDB42821 Feb 2025 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3liozqcyjxs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lip257li4c2gAmong other things, Lee’s bill includes long held dream of anti-internationalists to revoke the “sovereign territory” ceded to UN in Manhattan in 1947.21 Feb 2025 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lip257li4c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3liozqcyjxs2gThe sovereigntist agenda: Mike Lee’s bill to pull the US out of the UN. https://www.lee.senate.gov/services/files/596172FB-FA97-4CDD-B1B2-23B38BBDB42821 Feb 2025 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3liozqcyjxs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lhz3vxqr522oHegseth on PME is a disaster for civilian control of the military and civ-mil relations. My 2018 case for “less war, more college” at the US war colleges. https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/too-much-war-not-enough-college/12 Feb 2025 21:17 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhz3vxqr522ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lh7hxggsfc2rFor my current project on sovereignty, I have made five trips to the Wilcox Collection in the Spencer Library at KU. Just got word that they are hiring an archivist for this incredibly important collection in American politics. https://employment.ku.edu/jobs/faculty/curator-for-the-wilcox-collection-of-contemporary-political-movements/29548br02 Feb 2025 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh7hxggsfc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lh7h3qmdi22rNot the only thing. Also great conversations with super smart people who invite you to talk and then teach you thing. @hpe-project.bsky.social as an example. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Feb 2025 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh7h3qmdi22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lh7flkog322mThe amazing archival collections of repositories around the country are the only things that make this research possible. Thx libraries at U of O, KU, Yale, and Brown, @nypl.bsky.social, and others! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Feb 2025 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh7flkog322mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lh7d6zlzjs2mA less recognized genealogy for US foreign policy in the current era, from the book I'm writing on movements for sovereignty in the US. Thanks to @nytopinion.nytimes.com. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/trump-panama-greenland-foreign-policy.html02 Feb 2025 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh7d6zlzjs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenmittelstadt.bsky.social/post/3lcl2rnuxb22pTONIGHT! Join @sfndhe.bsky.social to hear from a wide range of national #highered organizers and leaders about how to continue the fight for the common good in the next four years. @higheredlabor.bsky.social, @aaup.bsky.social, @texasaaup.bsky.social, @pasenatorsaval.com and more. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Dec 2024 16:13 +0000at://did:plc:4du2fre5t5jqbe3ukrdsu27b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcl2rnuxb22p