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Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃

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Mary Louise Dudziak is an American legal theorist, civil rights historian, educator, and a leading foreign policy and international relations expert. She is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. .. more

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · Dec 5

Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism is on sale at the @umasspress.bsky.social holiday sale! 40% discount when you use the code HOLIDAY for this & other books.
www.umasspress.com/978162534568...

Making the Forever War

The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global ...

www.umasspress.com

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2h

Congratulations!!

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2h

With outstanding blurbs, of course.
Looks like release date via @bookshop.org is 3/24/26. bookshop.org/p/books/migr...

“Among the most basic elements of membership and belonging is the right to move freely and to set down roots, yet Professor Law masterfully chronicles how elusive these rights were for nearly everyone but European immigrants and their descendants in colonial and 19th-century America.”
—Daniel J. Tichenor, U of Oregon

Reposted by David Waldstreicher

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 2h

Wow!! Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship by Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social is out!! As timely as it is important.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 3h

I don't have a publicist, therefore I am the publicist. New website for my forthcoming book. Please especially check out the Author Q&A at the end of the page (Why did i write the book? Who's it for?. Journos, pod-casters, museums can find my contact info & how to obtain a bound review copy. 1/

Book - Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship — Anna O. Law

www.annaolaw.com

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 3h

The archive is subscription based, but @emoryuniversity.bsky.social library has it so it appears to be getting around. Check public libraries is your univ doesn't have it. It’s an archive of elite US foreign policy thinking so of course it should be pared w/ other sources depending on one's focus.

Global Politics and US Foreign Policy: The Council on Foreign Relations, 1918–2000 provides discussion, debate, and context on every facet of twentieth-century US foreign affairs (‘Foreign Affairs’ being the title of the Council’s own publication), gathering experts from many fields including military leaders, diplomats, journalists, economists, industrialists, and more. World leaders, ambassadors, and international statesmen make frequent appearances in these files, including Jimmy Carter, Dick Cheney, Margaret Thatcher, Zbigniew Brzeziński, U Thant, Nelson Mandela, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 3h

Potentially important new @cfr.org digital archive. Of interest to @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
and other scholars & students interested in the US & the world.
Global Politics and US Foreign Policy: The Council on Foreign Relations, 1918–2000.
review.gale.com/2025/12/02/c...

Gale’s New Digital Archive: The Council on Foreign Relations, 1918–2000

Clem Delany walks through Gale’s new digital archive: Global Politics and US Foreign Policy: The Council on Foreign Relations, 1918–2000.

review.gale.com

Reposted by Reece Jones, Julia Lynch, Mary L. Dudziak , and 2 more Reece Jones, Julia Lynch, Mary L. Dudziak, Karin Wulf, David Lay Williams

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 3h

Book - Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship — Anna O. Law

www.annaolaw.com

Reposted by Michael W. Kraus, Mary L. Dudziak, Kristina McElheran

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”

From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days

The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.”

The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h

Bad Bunny just abolished ICE through relentless fuck you pride and joy

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, the site of the 2026 American Society for Legal History Conference share.google/xKwvzDOCRbIK... is the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity! share.google/l1NqChfrtKPV...

Home

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is a learning organization built upon an extraordinary legacy of excellence in artistic and creative development.

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations!

Reposted by Paul M. Schwartz, Mary L. Dudziak

UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 6d

“Every authoritarian, or wannabe authoritarian, tries to intimidate the press. A free press that informs people of abuses of power is a threat to the control the authoritarian wants to exercise.” — Dean Erwin Chemerinsky open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Intimidating the Press

The arrests of Don Lemon and Gail Fort are part of the authoritarian playbook.

open.substack.com

Reposted by Nicholas A. Christakis, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 9 more Nicholas A. Christakis, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Joshua S. Weitz, John Horgan, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, David R. Miller, Lesley Bartlett, Mary L. Dudziak, James Goodwin, Erol Akçay, Ann Bartow

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon

Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Gerald Friedman, Mary L. Dudziak

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.

And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.

Today it roars in Minneapolis and around the country — at the jack-booted thugs occupying our cities.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 7d

Research $$ in peace history, Quaker history and more!
Call for applications for research funding @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social Special Collections.
www.swarthmore.edu/libraries/re...

Calling all scholars of Quaker history, Peace history, and allied topics! Swarthmore College Special Collections is now accepting applications for our Moore Research Fellowship for the 2026-2027 cycle.

The Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore Research Fellowship promotes research during the academic year or summer months using the resources of the Friends Historical Library and/or the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, providing a stipend of $1,500-$6,000 to support such research. Applications are due March 31, 2026.

Reposted by Iveta Silova, Gerald Friedman, Mary L. Dudziak , and 1 more Iveta Silova, Gerald Friedman, Mary L. Dudziak, Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Pop Base @popbase.tv · 7d

Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:

“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Aaron Sojourner, Michael Zimmer , and 1 more Nandita Sharma, Aaron Sojourner, Michael Zimmer, Mary L. Dudziak

Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 7d

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.

This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building

YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison

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Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

In Minnesota and elsewhere across the land, grassroots “neighborism” and outrage at Trump’s tyranny are creating an extraordinarily powerful movement.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-green-shoots

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 8d

Extraordinary piece by @ajc.com President and Publisher at the top of p. 1 this morning.
The future of free and fair elections is at stake in Georgia.
editions.ajc.com/shortcode/AJ...

Reposted by Mary L. Dudziak

Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 8d

If you are in the DC area (and have had enough of freezing cold and ice and being cooped up at home!) or if you want to learn about asylum from a great line up, come to Temple Sinai this afternoon for a discussion of a great documentary in the making!

templesinaidc.shulcloud.com/form/credibl...

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 8d

This will make you cry. Fellow students of Liam, the little boy in the bunny hat, have messages for ICE. 💔
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Video: Opinion | Dear ICE: Letters From Students Living in Fear

ICE took their classmate. They started writing letters.

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Melissa R. Michelson, Mary L. Dudziak , and 4 more Ben H. Ansell, Melissa R. Michelson, Mary L. Dudziak, Mark Rice, Jo Littler, Olivier Mannoni, David Darmofal

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 9d

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.

📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 9d

How I miss the Pacific Ocean.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 9d

It is snowing in Atlanta.

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 10d

So insane.

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 10d

Thread: I'm at the Polk County courthouse, where a hearing is starting at 9 am in Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and its longtime pollster, Ann Selzer.
This hearing's about a procedural motion, not merits of the case. 1/

Reposted by Juan Cole, Mary L. Dudziak

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 10d

Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 10d

If it helps, I plugged your book at CFR!

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 11d

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social