Jay Bateman
jbateman-history.bsky.social
Jay Bateman
@jbateman-history.bsky.social
History PhD Student at UNC - Chapel Hill.
Contemporary military history, history of airpower, society, and U.S. strategic culture.

https://history.unc.edu/graduate-student/jay-bateman/
Great opportunity to discuss public history and public archaeology with the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation today at their Tribal Center near Burlington, NC. And a treat to view the collection of artifacts from the late John Blackfeather. #UNC #UNCHistory #UNCAnthropology
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Many thanks, @pasuth.info!

States-in-Waiting is just now out in paperback while remaining open access through Cambridge core.

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November 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Spooky season Carl!
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Overjoyed to donate a 1944 anniversary gala pamphlet for the 920th Air Base Security BN to the USAF Security Forces Museum and coordinate on a future public history display. The Gala was on Bougainville and commemorates those awarded for heroism in the Battle of Torokina Perimeter.
#militaryhistory
October 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Beautiful day for some archaeological surveys in Hillsborough, NC with UNC’s anthropology department. Using Ground Penetrating Radar to survey for possible colonial era archaeological sites. #UNC #History
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I have finally injected sufficient Airpower History propaganda into the UNC History Department’s Military History Graduate Student offices… I was surrounded by too many Civil War posters for my liking.
(The knitted roundel was a gift from one of my students)
September 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The joys of grad school apartments. No space for more bookshelves in the “library” so the living room is rapidly become the painfully unorganized overflow for new bookshel(ves)…
September 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Out soon … 🥸
July 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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UNUM on the Road continued last week in North Carolina with historian @kathleenduval.bsky.social

A featured voice in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION and recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Professor DuVal explores how disputes over Native land helped ignite the Revolutionary War.
May 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Such an incredible week at the Second World War Research Group annual conference in London. So many phenomenal scholars and such an incredibly well run conference! Big thanks to both for allowing me to share my research!
June 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Great kick off to the international Second World War Research Group annual conference last night with panel of stars discussing evolution of historiography, key emerging themes, and future of global histories of WWII. 27 countries and 120+ institutions represented.
June 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Post-Comp exam feeling engaged…
a husky dog is laying on a bed with its tongue out
ALT: a husky dog is laying on a bed with its tongue out
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June 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Huzzah to the 2025 @smh-historians.bsky.social distinguished book award winner and incoming president @milhistlee.bsky.social! @uncpress.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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I’m thrilled to share that Native Nations has won the Bancroft Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/a...
Histories of Native America and the Port of Los Angeles Win Bancroft Prize
The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Thanks @loyolachicago.bsky.social History Department for a phenomenal conference and providing me the opportunity to present my research on Air Base Security Battalions of World War II and the lessons lost due to their invisibility to history.
February 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Had the opportunity to present some of my research on the Air Base Security Battalions of WWII and the repercussions of segregation. Thanks to the team at Texas A&M for putting on the Conference
February 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I'm honored to announce that The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800 has been award this year's Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award.

Many thanks to my editor Debbie Gershenowitz who took a chance on this one.

uncpress.org/book/9781469...
The Cutting-Off Way | Wayne E. Lee | University of North Carolina Press
Incorporating archeology, anthropology, cartography, and Indigenous studies into military history, Wayne E. Lee has argued throughout his distinguished caree...
uncpress.org
February 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM