Christopher McKnight Nichols
@cmcknichols.bsky.social
Historian, Hayes Chair @OhioState Mershon Ctr Carnegie Fellow 6 Books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Promise & Peril. Isolationism, Internationalism, Globalization. ⚾️
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Thrilled that Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories, co-edited with David Milne, @columbiaup.bsky.social, has been awarded the International Studies Association's 2023 Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations. cup.columbia.edu/book/ideolog...
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If you're 42 years old, we're as far away from your birth as your birth is from the invention of antibiotics!
History is weird.
What we consider modernity is way closer than we think...
1941
LOC
lccn.loc.gov/sn82016181
#c20th #histmed 🗃️
History is weird.
What we consider modernity is way closer than we think...
1941
LOC
lccn.loc.gov/sn82016181
#c20th #histmed 🗃️
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
If you're 42 years old, we're as far away from your birth as your birth is from the invention of antibiotics!
History is weird.
What we consider modernity is way closer than we think...
1941
LOC
lccn.loc.gov/sn82016181
#c20th #histmed 🗃️
History is weird.
What we consider modernity is way closer than we think...
1941
LOC
lccn.loc.gov/sn82016181
#c20th #histmed 🗃️
There simply is not enough time.
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There simply is not enough time.
So wrong.
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
(Published October)
(Published October)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So wrong.
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Curious about university press publishing? Want to publish with a university press? #AskUP! University press professionals answer frequently asked publishing questions here: https://bit.ly/3milXtt
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Curious about university press publishing? Want to publish with a university press? #AskUP! University press professionals answer frequently asked publishing questions here: https://bit.ly/3milXtt
Not enough people were talking yesterday--on Armistice Day, aka Veteran's Day--about the importance of peace + the threat of global & wider conflict. I've been writing about the global dimensions of WWI for some time, they helped to inspire modern peace movements www.huffpost.com/entry/armist...
Armistice Day and WWI's Global Effects
What rapidly came to be called the "Great War" was widely understood not just as a "world" war but also as an "epochal" moment in world history. It was the first "total war" in which entire nations an...
www.huffpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Not enough people were talking yesterday--on Armistice Day, aka Veteran's Day--about the importance of peace + the threat of global & wider conflict. I've been writing about the global dimensions of WWI for some time, they helped to inspire modern peace movements www.huffpost.com/entry/armist...
Among many parts of university activities we need to be supporting in these difficult times, university presses should be toward the top. They are critical to the broader universe of knowledge production
In the midst of closure news, "Faculty and academic press advocates are pushing back against Bucknell University’s unilateral decision to close" @bucknellupress.bsky.social. @aupresses.bsky.social truly is a #TeamUP effort, and each press supports scholars and scholarship in important ways.
Under Pressure to Prove ROI, a University Closes Its Press
Bucknell University says it’s closing its storied academic press to focus more resources on undergraduate students. But faculty and other scholars say the press has long been a part of the value propo...
www.insidehighered.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Among many parts of university activities we need to be supporting in these difficult times, university presses should be toward the top. They are critical to the broader universe of knowledge production
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Wonderful to see this news that the Kennan Institute will continue its vital work, now as an independent center.
Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Wonderful to see this news that the Kennan Institute will continue its vital work, now as an independent center.
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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"the trajectory is really really really good if you look at it." 🤔
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"the trajectory is really really really good if you look at it." 🤔
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That first Joint Chiefs Chairman in 1949, General Omar Bradley, when it became the Department of Defense, was so mistaken, unqualified, politically correct. Wait, what? ...🗃️ ahec.armywarcollege.edu/exhibits/Bra...
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
That first Joint Chiefs Chairman in 1949, General Omar Bradley, when it became the Department of Defense, was so mistaken, unqualified, politically correct. Wait, what? ...🗃️ ahec.armywarcollege.edu/exhibits/Bra...
The US Early Cold Warriors, those architects of the 1947 National Security Act, they were soooooo politically correct.🗃️
Trump: "We have officially renamed the Dept of Defense back to the original name, Dept of War. And remember we won World War 1, we won World War 2, we won everything in between. We won everything that came before. And then we brilliantly decided to change the name. We became politically correct"
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The US Early Cold Warriors, those architects of the 1947 National Security Act, they were soooooo politically correct.🗃️
Been saying this for a while. Thought it isn't likely & won't be very public, it is clear LOTS of international "partners" of the US are sharing less + sharing selectively when it comes to intelligence that used to be easily shared w/US counterparts. Expected, understandable, & very dangerous.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Been saying this for a while. Thought it isn't likely & won't be very public, it is clear LOTS of international "partners" of the US are sharing less + sharing selectively when it comes to intelligence that used to be easily shared w/US counterparts. Expected, understandable, & very dangerous.
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Come out to our November chapter meeting this Thursday! RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/aaup-...
We have a ton to talk after the rally on 11/7 & the fight for free speech & academic freedom at all levels. Whether you’re a regular or it’s your first meeting, your voice is what we need to hear.
We have a ton to talk after the rally on 11/7 & the fight for free speech & academic freedom at all levels. Whether you’re a regular or it’s your first meeting, your voice is what we need to hear.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Come out to our November chapter meeting this Thursday! RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/aaup-...
We have a ton to talk after the rally on 11/7 & the fight for free speech & academic freedom at all levels. Whether you’re a regular or it’s your first meeting, your voice is what we need to hear.
We have a ton to talk after the rally on 11/7 & the fight for free speech & academic freedom at all levels. Whether you’re a regular or it’s your first meeting, your voice is what we need to hear.
I think the framing of this as the era of the third red scare might very well fit … tragically of course and with many historical differences
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I think the framing of this as the era of the third red scare might very well fit … tragically of course and with many historical differences
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The proposal's definitions of "race ideology" and "gender ideology" are exactly as thoughtful and workable as you'd expect
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The proposal's definitions of "race ideology" and "gender ideology" are exactly as thoughtful and workable as you'd expect
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Ohio State is in the news for such sad reasons. These cuts, policies are a shame & hurt us all. It’s time to bring back the good & to stop federal + state attacks on higher ed!! Trump administration cuts canceled this college student’s career start in politics hechingerreport.org/trump-admini...
Trump administration cuts canceled this college student’s career start in politics
This story was produced in partnership with Teen Vogue and reprinted with permission. This story also appeared in Teen Vogue Christopher Cade wants to be president someday. His inspiration largely co...
hechingerreport.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Ohio State is in the news for such sad reasons. These cuts, policies are a shame & hurt us all. It’s time to bring back the good & to stop federal + state attacks on higher ed!! Trump administration cuts canceled this college student’s career start in politics hechingerreport.org/trump-admini...
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Talking about Trump-Xi meeting, diplomacy, & dealing, US-Asia relations now, & their significance in historical perspective, with a comparison to the rising powers & competition of the late 19th Century Sunday cover story The News On Sunday🗃️ www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1...
Winds of change | Encore | thenews.com.pk
Presidents Trump, Xi agree to de-escalate the trade war that has roiled global markets
www.thenews.com.pk
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Talking about Trump-Xi meeting, diplomacy, & dealing, US-Asia relations now, & their significance in historical perspective, with a comparison to the rising powers & competition of the late 19th Century Sunday cover story The News On Sunday🗃️ www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1...
When a party leader of any type cannot wrangle their caucus to do or not do things in the best interest of the whole, factions emerge & chart their own path, that is fine, but it is a failure of leadership & a failure of collective action. Plain & simple. Past, present, & future. For any party.🗃️
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
When a party leader of any type cannot wrangle their caucus to do or not do things in the best interest of the whole, factions emerge & chart their own path, that is fine, but it is a failure of leadership & a failure of collective action. Plain & simple. Past, present, & future. For any party.🗃️
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🗃️ HUGE thanks to all who made the #USIH2025 conference such a great success! Lucky to find time in the #Detroit Institute of Arts between panels, go! @susih.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
🗃️ HUGE thanks to all who made the #USIH2025 conference such a great success! Lucky to find time in the #Detroit Institute of Arts between panels, go! @susih.bsky.social
Unless you get something tangible, and verifiable, in return negotiating away your leverage is absurd.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Unless you get something tangible, and verifiable, in return negotiating away your leverage is absurd.
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Kazin’s contribution is essentially available in TNR newrepublic.com/article/1947...
What America Made of Marx
Tracing the leftist icon’s influence on the history of the United States
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kazin’s contribution is essentially available in TNR newrepublic.com/article/1947...