#ScholarSunday thread 148

Published on October 8, 2023

Here it is, my 148^th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians

First, a reminder that I’m now also sharing these threads on my newsletter:

Starting with a few favorites from the week as usual, including @HenryMcEric for @TheAmScho tracking down the legendary Mama Lou:

https://theamericanscholar.org/queen-of-the-castle/

@Miss_Rosen interviewed @johnedwinmason for @HUCKmagazine on the underlooked & vital role of Black studio photographers:

https://www.huckmag.com/article/chronicling-black-american-studio-photographers-transforming-history

@DeborahYaffe wrote for @CivicStory on the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center (h/t @WalterDGreason):

https://www.civicstory.org/reporting/tthomasfortune-maplehall

& here’s Kami Horton for @OPB on the 150^th anniversary of a series of white supremacist executions of Modoc leaders (h/t @moodycreek):

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/10/03/modoc-war-captain-jack-execution-fort-klamath-oregon/

For this week’s @BaltimoreHist column, @EmmanuelMehr wrote about Black radicals in antebellum Baltimore:

https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/fugitive-black-radical-self-liberators-who-lived-in-antebellum-baltimore

Here’s Andy O’Brien for @MaineWCH on the 90^th anniversary of the founding of an important shipbuilders’ union:

https://maineaflcio.org/news/90-years-later-local-s6-spirit-cio-0

Important work from @BrianDeLay for @AmHistReview on the role of the arms trade in revolutions across the Americans (Brian’s offered to send the article along to anyone without access):

https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/128/3/1144/7282239?login=true

& @gvaughnjoy has officially launched her weekly Review Roulette newsletter with the first review, of Hitchcock’s under-rated Rope:

An Enlightened Death and A Life of Darkness

Turning to current events, here’s an excerpt in @theappeal from Benjamin Weber’s important new book on mass incarceration (h/t @guye_guion):

https://theappeal.org/american-purgatory-prison-imperialism-mass-incarceration/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter

@williamcson wrote for @prismreports on how the long history of indicting anarchism helps us understand attacks on Cop City protesters (h/t @DwayneDavidPaul):

https://prismreports.org/2023/10/03/indicting-anarchism-inventing-terror-cop-city/

Inspiring stuff from @markhertsgaard for @TheNation on @Janefonda’s climate change activism (h/t @KatrinaNation):

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/jane-fonda-climate-change/

@bleachbred wrote for his @Medium column on Kevin McCarthy, GOP & MAGA dysfunction, & white supremacist politics:

https://medium.com/the-polis/kevin-mccarthy-republican-party-dysfunction-inept-politicians-and-the-long-dark-sordid-history-4a4af473443a?source=social.tw&_branch_match_id=892412826874196203&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz8nMy9bLTU3JLM3VS87P1S9PrkwLyPDzdXFJAgB6qBvqIwAAAA%3D%3D

Speaking of right-wing extremism, @Will_Bunch for @PhillyInquirer is a must-read as ever, this time on the right’s “Red Caesar” fantasies:

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html

On a happier note, news of two awesome new archives this week, including @TC_Nowak for @SmithsonianMag on a Phillis Wheatley collection (h/t @DukeAAAS):

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/smithsonian-acquires-collection-of-works-about-phillis-wheatley-including-rare-handwritten-manuscript-180982983/

& check out the new, digital @HGSE Black Teacher Archive, led by the efforts of @jarvisgivens & @imaniperry (h/t @ClintSmithIII):  

https://twitter.com/hgse/status/1709307047576031526?s=20

Lots of new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @KatherineLTurk on the history of @NationalNOW:

https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/NOW/

Episode 5 of @academicodpod featuring @rachel_griffis on academic conferences & the benefits of collaboration:

https://twitter.com/academicodpod/status/1709795322166489530?s=20

Episode 2 of the important new @ThisMyStory_Pod features Nahomi, a college student & undocumented immigrant (h/t @SilasLapham):

The newest episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM features the inimitable @CharlesPPierce on the under-rated Bogart film Deadline USA:

https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1709568051740610572?s=20

& I was very excited to be featured on @hoosier_victory’s Freedom over Fascism podcast, talking curriculum & history battles:

Lots of great work for @BlkPerspectives this week, including @lucien_baskin for @SchomburgCBFS interviewing @JeanneTheoharis @redrubes14 & @JHamilton71 about their Rosa Parks documentary:

https://www.aaihs.org/the-life-and-activism-of-rosa-parks-a-cbfs-interview/

Speaking of inspiring women like Parks, @CathleenDCahill wrote for @BlkPerspectives on Black women’s activism:

https://www.aaihs.org/black-womens-activism-through-history-and-poetry/

Here’s @rochellespencer for @BlkPerspectives on teaching Afrofuturism:

https://www.aaihs.org/afrofuturism-in-the-classroom/

& E. Nicole Vines wrote for @BlkPerspectives on Mary E. Pleasant, the “Mother of Civil Rights in California”:

https://www.aaihs.org/mary-e-pleasant-reshaping-the-landscape-of-segregation-in-california/

Speaking of great public scholarly blogs, don’t forget to pitch @madebyhistory at their new @TIMEHistory home!

https://twitter.com/madebyhistory/status/1707024210013372909?s=20

Lots of important new books dropped this week, including @dan_sinykin’s Big Fiction from @ColumbiaUP:

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/big-fiction/9780231192958

Also out this week is @PDabashi’s Losing the Plot from @UChicagoPress:

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo206924764.html

@creoleprof’s Black Grief/White Grievance is now out from @PrincetonUPress, & check out this conversation about it with @nrookie:

https://twitter.com/creoleprof/status/1709198498153763176?s=20

While for @theartsfuse, @blakeSmaddux interviewed @HC_Richardson about her new book Democracy Awakening:

https://artsfuse.org/280346/author-interview-heather-cox-richardson-on-democracy-awakening/?fbclid=IwAR3VrwIyx42XV5Av7-TKtLA4HcRc1SS50x5XlakzS5_GHre1fgp5viZBPBg

The @newbooksnetwork’s New Books in American Studies featured @acweimer on his new book A Constitutional Culture:

https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-constitutional-culture

For @BucksCoBeacon, @wihorne reviewed @KidadaEWilliams vital Reconstruction history I Saw Death Coming:

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2023/10/when-america-refused-to-hold-white-supremacist-terrorists-accountable-it-made-itself-into-a-klan-country/

For another vital recent work of historical reimagining, check out Dylan Penningroth’s Before the Movement from @wwnorton (h/t @JohnFabianWitt):

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093107

& for a forthcoming such revision of our historical understandings, @kcarterjackson’s We Refuse is now available for pre-order from @BasicBooks:

https://twitter.com/kcarterjackson/status/1709207291075895518?s=20

Gonna end with a few of the many amazing pieces for #BannedBooksWeek, including publisher @AyoSekai chatting with @DiverseIssues (h/t @WalterDGreason):

https://www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/article/15635754/how-black-publishers-can-overturn-the-banning-of-black-voices

Here’s @ishenarobinson, Deputy Editorial Director of @NAACP_LDF, on how book bannings fit into the larger fight against racial justice:

https://www.naacpldf.org/critical-race-theory-banned-books/

@SilasLapham wrote for his blog on Ashley Hope Pérez’s Out of Darkness for #BannedBooksWeek:

https://interminablerambling.medium.com/banned-books-week-ashley-hope-p%C3%A9rezs-out-of-darkness-ea5c00bacbf6

& Pérez’s book is one of a handful I highlighted in my latest @SatEvePost Considering History column, on challenging book burnings & bans by reading & teaching Latino & LGBT texts:

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/10/considering-history-celebrate-freedom-by-reading-a-banned-latino-or-lgbtq-book/

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more writing & work, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & may it be a restful & reflective Indigenous Peoples’ Day! #twitterstorians