#ScholarSunday thread 149

Shared on October 15, 2023

Here it is, my 149^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 @marysmith828, the first Native American President of @ABAesq, for @TheOklahoman_ on Indigenous Peoples’ Day:

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/opinion/2023/10/09/guest-indigenous-peoples-day-a-time-for-celebration-but-also-reckoning/71110855007/

Bracing & vital reporting from @JenBerryHawes for @propublica on the fight over Harvard’s photos of enslaved people (h/t @charlesornstein):

https://www.propublica.org/article/harvard-photos-enslaved-people-tamara-lanier

@garyyounge wrote for @nybooks on @mattdelmont’s book & African Americans in WWII (h/t @DukeAAAS):

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/19/we-return-fighting-half-american-delmont/

& check out this @ucpress forum on an Ethnic Studies Review special issue on the Supreme Court’s Thind case 100 years later, featuring @janna_e_haider & others (h/t @hidehirota):

https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/63263/100-years-after-thind-an-ethnic-studies-review-special-issue/

Great stuff from @jessicahester for @nursingclio on 19^th century female medical students in Philadelphia taking collective action (h/t @sarahbelle721):

https://nursingclio.org/2023/10/11/in-19th-century-philadelphia-female-medical-students-lobbied-hard-for-mutual-aid/

@DavidVonDrehle wrote for @PostOpinions on the long-overdue dedication of a memorial to the Triangle Fire victims (gift link from @eetheridge):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/09/triangle-fire-victims-memorial/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk2ODI0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjk4MjA2Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTY4MjQwMDAsImp0aSI6IjA2OTZkNGVlLWQwZTUtNDgxYy05NGIxLTU3YmYwMDUxZjU3NCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDIzLzEwLzA5L3RyaWFuZ2xlLWZpcmUtdmljdGltcy1tZW1vcmlhbC8ifQ.yX3zDU6S142kAQRW78-87YPXjc_uXkKlui7qT-s_F0U

& great reporting from @LouisSahagun & @seangreene89 for @latimes on a new map of LA’s ancient villages (h/t @singerphd):

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-10-09/researchers-map-ancient-tribal-villages-of-los-angeles

Turning to current events, @AnthonyMKreis talked with @michelebgoodwin for @MsMagazine on the Trump indictments:

https://msmagazine.com/podcast/fifteen-minutes-of-feminism-the-trump-indictments-untangling-the-mess-with-anthony-michael-kreis/

@bleachbred wrote for @Medium on race relations in post-Obama America:

https://medium.com/the-polis/race-relations-the-21st-century-post-obama-years-and-the-increasingly-periolous-future-facing-the-35edb9e1e366

& in a similar vein, @queenie4rmnola wrote for @Medium on why Black Americans continue to get blamed for college admissions challenges:

https://momentum.medium.com/why-black-americans-still-get-the-blame-after-affirmative-action-0609f5fff023

Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @llassabe on the American Right on campus:

https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/campus-right/

The new episode of @draftingthepast features @Dr_SarahMac talking about her book Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South:

https://draftingthepast.com/podcast-episodes/episode-33-sarah-mcnamara-takes-us-to-ybor-city/

For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, @buzzkillprof’s new episode featured @KateMessner on Columbus & the Taino:

https://www.spreaker.com/user/16373114/columbus-and-taino-people-audio

The new episode of @gregolear’s Prevail features @KathrynBrownell on her book 24/7 Politics & cable news:

& the latest episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast featured @UMNBookworm on Sherlock Holmes:

https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1712118495314657580?s=20

Also check out this @NBCLatino coverage of a new documentary on Joan Baez’s Mexican American identity (h/t @KidadaEWilliams):

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/joan-baez-documentary-mexican-heritage-i-am-the-noise-activism-rcna118460?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=65230a58ec211f0001da3cf6&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Lots of great work for the reimagined @madebyhistory from @TIMEHistory this week, including @DirectorMLK & @JeanneTheoharis on MLK & the FBI:  

https://time.com/6322107/fbi-martin-luther-king-lessons/

@AdamLaats wrote for @madebyhistory from @TIMEHistory on the right-wing textbooks shaping American historical education:

https://time.com/6316978/conservative-textbooks/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=240873068

While @ceaubin wrote for @madebyhistory from @TIMEHistory on the history of Nazi immigration to the US:

https://time.com/6322156/history-of-nazi-immigration/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=241110654

& here’s @jcullenAHN for @madebyhistory from @TIMEHistory on a topic near & dear to my heart, influences on @springsteen (& Billy Joel):

https://time.com/6320697/bruce-springsteen-billy-joel-suburbs-history/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=241328848

Another great @BlkPerspectives Forum this week, this one on Race & Latin America & starting with Laura Correa Ochoa:

https://www.aaihs.org/manuel-zapata-olivella-mestizaje-and-black-politics-in-1970s-colombia/

@profbhenson continued the @BlkPerspectives Forum with a piece on the puzzle of race & nation in Brazil:

https://www.aaihs.org/amefricanidade-surpassing-the-puzzle-of-race-and-nation-in-brazil/

& @cdariusg wrote for the @BlkPerspectives Forum (which continues next week) on the life & legacy of Thereza Santos:

https://www.aaihs.org/the-life-and-legacy-of-thereza-santos/

Also for @BlkPerspectives, @rhyamoffitt reviewed Tina Post’s book Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression from @NYUpress:

https://www.aaihs.org/the-meaning-of-black-inexpression/

Speaking of new books, a couple important ones dropped this week, including @CountessCanuck’s The Vice President’s Black Wife from @UNC_Press:

https://twitter.com/UNC_Press/status/1711721951754907678?s=20

& also published this week was Joy James’s New Bones Abolition from @CommonNotions (h/t @decolonialfc):

https://www.commonnotions.org/new-bones-abolition

Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as ever, including @crystal_b_lake for @ChronicleReview on West Virginia University  (h/t @four4thefire):

https://www.chronicle.com/article/west-virginia-u-changed-my-life

@amuredda wrote for @SFdirewolf’s @DisVisibility on Tod Browning’s Freaks, disability culture, & the criterion for inclusion:

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/10/08/one-of-us-tod-brownings-freaks-disability-culture-and-the-criterion-for-inclusion/

Make sure to check out @gvaughnjoy’s excellent open-access Comparative American Studies article on Miracle on 34^th Street:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14775700.2023.2267337

& finally, for Spooky Season here’s @NathanielScharp for @atlasobscura on why there are so many female ghosts, featuring the expertise of @Leannarenee & @_AndreaJanes:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ghost-women-why-are-there-so-many-female-ghosts

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more public scholarly writing & work, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & take care of yourselves in these fraught times, all. #twitterstorians

PPS. Next week marks 150 of my #ScholarSunday threads! On that note, I wanted first to highlight a great parallel example, @DrDionGeorgiou’s Stop, Look, & Listen Sunday newsletters:

Stop, Look, and Listen (08.10.23)

& ahead of next week’s #ScholarSunday thread 150, I wanted to ask folks if you’d be willing to share, here or by email (brailton@fitchburgstate.edu), a bit on what these kinds of community & solidarity mean to you+

+ for a special newsletter where I’ll capture some of those thoughts, either attributed or anonymous (let me know if you’d rather stay anonymous). Thanks so much, & here’s to the next 150!