Tej Nagaraja
@tejnagaraja.bsky.social
historian — Cornell U. professor — book author, “Troop Movements” (2026)
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Tej Nagaraja
@tejnagaraja.bsky.social
· Apr 18
📣📕 Checkout our new book, “The Greater Second World War” eds. Ruth Lawlor & Andrew Buchanan.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Amid a current crisis of “post-WW2 order” — we need to reconsider what was WW2 itself. This book has top scholars who do just that.
@cornellupress.bsky.social
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Amid a current crisis of “post-WW2 order” — we need to reconsider what was WW2 itself. This book has top scholars who do just that.
@cornellupress.bsky.social
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 ?
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 ?
January 3, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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 ?
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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Today, 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.
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.
Our Most Read Posts of 2025
Exactly what it says on the tin. Revisit the entries from the past year that readers turned to the most.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Today, 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.
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.
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Next is"Gotta Study War Work More" (vol. 22, no. 3) by @tejnagaraja.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
December 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Next is"Gotta Study War Work More" (vol. 22, no. 3) by @tejnagaraja.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
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Honored to be on the list. Thrilled to be ranked so highly!
December 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Honored to be on the list. Thrilled to be ranked so highly!
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And finally, "Class/War: Do Labor and Military History Work Together?" (vol. 22, no. 3) by @justinfdjackson.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
December 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
And finally, "Class/War: Do Labor and Military History Work Together?" (vol. 22, no. 3) by @justinfdjackson.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
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To 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.
December 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
To 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.
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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.
💐
December 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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.
💐
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.
💐
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What 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...
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What 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...
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
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Tejasvi 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...
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
Gotta Study War Work More | Labor | Duke University Press
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November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Tejasvi 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...
doi.org/10.1215/1547...
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Our latest issue (22:4) is now available online!
read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...
read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Our latest issue (22:4) is now available online!
read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...
read.dukeupress.edu/labor/issue/...
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Joel 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...
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Yiddish Actors Give a Whole New Meaning to the Phrase, “Staging a Strike” | LAWCHA
One of the earliest foundations of the progressive theatre movement in America was contributed by the Yiddish Theatre, 1887–1913, in the formation of the
lawcha.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Joel 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...
lawcha.org/2025/12/05/y...
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Mark 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.
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.
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Mark 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.
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.
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Attention 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!
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.
Details below. Please circulate widely!
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Attention 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!
Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence.
Details below. Please circulate widely!
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The 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
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The 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...
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.
— Would suggest this fresh take be read in conversation, with Robin DG Kelley’s Freedom Dreams.
Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful.
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Read this — ‘Surrealism Against Fascism’ by Naomi Klein.
— Would suggest this fresh take be read in conversation, with Robin DG Kelley’s Freedom Dreams.
— 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…
November 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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...
— 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...
What is to be Fun?: A Review of Tom Stoppard’s “Rock ‘n Roll”
Rock ‘n’ Roll, a play by Tom Stoppard At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W. 45th Street; through…
indypendent.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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...
— 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
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November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Fresh new magazines — worth checking out — Long-Haul and Jamhoor
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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.
* 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.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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.
* 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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@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...
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...
Up For Debate: Labor and Military History
YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@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...
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.
* 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.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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.
* 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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Giving thanks today to Rosemary Feurer for this conversation on "The Wages of War" forum in the most recent issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social (no paywall!) with historians John Hall, Reena Goldthree and @tejnagaraja.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-V...
See lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...
See lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...
Labor History and Military History: A Forum | LAWCHA
This recorded forum is an exciting follow-up to Justin Jackson's blog, The Specter of War in Labor History on the Labor: Studies in Working Class History
lawcha.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Giving thanks today to Rosemary Feurer for this conversation on "The Wages of War" forum in the most recent issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social (no paywall!) with historians John Hall, Reena Goldthree and @tejnagaraja.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-V...
See lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...
See lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...
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@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/...
"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/...
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
@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/...
"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/...
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...
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...
Labor History and Military History: A Forum | LAWCHA
This recorded forum is an exciting follow-up to Justin Jackson's blog, The Specter of War in Labor History on the Labor: Studies in Working Class History
lawcha.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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...
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...