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. ⚾️
From the Truman Library itself!
(About EO9981 desegregating the armed forces...) www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/pr...
(About EO9981 desegregating the armed forces...) www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/pr...
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
From the Truman Library itself!
(About EO9981 desegregating the armed forces...) www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/pr...
(About EO9981 desegregating the armed forces...) www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/pr...
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...
Just after the election let's talk executive authority and the history of how we got to this era of enormous presidential power + party politics ... honored & delighted to be involved, Thurs Nov 6 6pm Center for Presidential History at SMU, with some amazing panelists blog.smu.edu/cph/event/th...
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Just after the election let's talk executive authority and the history of how we got to this era of enormous presidential power + party politics ... honored & delighted to be involved, Thurs Nov 6 6pm Center for Presidential History at SMU, with some amazing panelists blog.smu.edu/cph/event/th...
Voting matters
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Voting matters
This is some kind of historic, fun, fascinating World Series.
Just wow...
Just wow...
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is some kind of historic, fun, fascinating World Series.
Just wow...
Just wow...
Enormous turnout for @renatakeller.bsky.social on The Fate of the Americas @uncpress.bsky.social @mershoncenter.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Enormous turnout for @renatakeller.bsky.social on The Fate of the Americas @uncpress.bsky.social @mershoncenter.bsky.social
Lots of lingering uncertainty in the classroom and around campus, about what can and can't be said, taught, and done, as current students note...
October 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Lots of lingering uncertainty in the classroom and around campus, about what can and can't be said, taught, and done, as current students note...
This is the first hemispheric history of arguably the closest the world ever got (so far) to nuclear annihilation: The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold @uncpress.bsky.social #UNC #InterConnections @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
War uncpress.org/978146968943...
War uncpress.org/978146968943...
October 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is the first hemispheric history of arguably the closest the world ever got (so far) to nuclear annihilation: The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold @uncpress.bsky.social #UNC #InterConnections @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
War uncpress.org/978146968943...
War uncpress.org/978146968943...
Thinking to Founders, Framers, so much against any established religion, representing numerous views & beliefs w/little unity. Thus, examples like Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli (1797): "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion"🗃️
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Thinking to Founders, Framers, so much against any established religion, representing numerous views & beliefs w/little unity. Thus, examples like Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli (1797): "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion"🗃️
Really looking forward to going to the SMU Center for Presidential History in a few weeks on Nov 6 to discuss the history of the limits on presidential power and executive authority as part of the Third Rail Lecture Series🗃️ blog.smu.edu/cph/event/th...
October 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Really looking forward to going to the SMU Center for Presidential History in a few weeks on Nov 6 to discuss the history of the limits on presidential power and executive authority as part of the Third Rail Lecture Series🗃️ blog.smu.edu/cph/event/th...
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
That guy has a point! Maybe all history courses at a land grant public university should have a land acknowledgement. @aaup.org @ohaaup.bsky.social @osuaaup.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
That guy has a point! Maybe all history courses at a land grant public university should have a land acknowledgement. @aaup.org @ohaaup.bsky.social @osuaaup.bsky.social
Often what is labeled "bias" is an uncomfortable truth...
October 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Often what is labeled "bias" is an uncomfortable truth...
I have looked at this a ton and he's right! There are NO rigorous peer reviewed studies showing faculty political leanings translate into skewed teaching or any form of vindictive grading or censorship on a systemic scale. Yes there are anecdotes, no there is NOT evidence of a widespread issue. 🗃️
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I have looked at this a ton and he's right! There are NO rigorous peer reviewed studies showing faculty political leanings translate into skewed teaching or any form of vindictive grading or censorship on a systemic scale. Yes there are anecdotes, no there is NOT evidence of a widespread issue. 🗃️
Polling so far suggests Americans blame the party in power, Republicans, for the federal government shutdown. In keeping with virtually all recent historical polling evidence...in general, the blaming of the party in power only increases as effects of the shutdown worsen & hurt more🗃️ USA Today
October 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Polling so far suggests Americans blame the party in power, Republicans, for the federal government shutdown. In keeping with virtually all recent historical polling evidence...in general, the blaming of the party in power only increases as effects of the shutdown worsen & hurt more🗃️ USA Today
For more on the history of federal government shutdowns (8 in Reagan's two terms alone! and 14 total since 1981), their duration, and government control by party, see this excellent graphic and @cnn.com article🗃️ www.cnn.com/politics/lon...
October 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
For more on the history of federal government shutdowns (8 in Reagan's two terms alone! and 14 total since 1981), their duration, and government control by party, see this excellent graphic and @cnn.com article🗃️ www.cnn.com/politics/lon...
Columbus and Ohio come on out on Thursday evening at 7pm to the Book Loft in German Village to talk about Keisha Blain's just released timely book Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights @wwnorton.com @mershoncenter.bsky.social ! mershoncenter.osu.edu/events/keish...
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Columbus and Ohio come on out on Thursday evening at 7pm to the Book Loft in German Village to talk about Keisha Blain's just released timely book Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights @wwnorton.com @mershoncenter.bsky.social ! mershoncenter.osu.edu/events/keish...
Really important to note how historically unpopular Donald Trump and his Administration are -- they are underwater on virtually every issue, at least in terms of the presidencies of the last 25 years or so - thanks @gelliottmorris.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Really important to note how historically unpopular Donald Trump and his Administration are -- they are underwater on virtually every issue, at least in terms of the presidencies of the last 25 years or so - thanks @gelliottmorris.com
Come to think of it, when I arrived on campus in 2022 and the fall semester was ramping up I recall seeing chalked welcome to Buckeye Nation signs and friendly words and smiley faces from campus orgs and groups ... And then there's Woody Hayes' final chalk thoughts, saved for yrs, never erased!
August 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Come to think of it, when I arrived on campus in 2022 and the fall semester was ramping up I recall seeing chalked welcome to Buckeye Nation signs and friendly words and smiley faces from campus orgs and groups ... And then there's Woody Hayes' final chalk thoughts, saved for yrs, never erased!
And also...
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
And also...
Love this too much not to add here...
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Love this too much not to add here...
There's just no room for chalking at OSU.
And as for that competition with Michigan... I guess free speech there also will have to suffer?
And as for that competition with Michigan... I guess free speech there also will have to suffer?
August 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
There's just no room for chalking at OSU.
And as for that competition with Michigan... I guess free speech there also will have to suffer?
And as for that competition with Michigan... I guess free speech there also will have to suffer?
Wow earliest known baseball card, 1865, looks like a great baseball history exhibit at the Library of Congress🗃️ www.loc.gov/exhibitions/...
August 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Wow earliest known baseball card, 1865, looks like a great baseball history exhibit at the Library of Congress🗃️ www.loc.gov/exhibitions/...