#ScholarSunday thread 150

Published on October 22, 2023

Oct 22, 2023

150! It’s here, my 150^th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below, like & share the thread, help spread this communal solidarity, all! #twitterstorians

First, a reminder that I’m now also sharing these threads on my newsletter, & always will whatever happens with this site:

Second, remember that all 149 prior threads are housed in this Google Doc, if you want to revisit 3 years of amazing public scholarship:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cmXo7uNRbXusD74-6ul4B6LxlnweEdVUoAfwjVpNKy4/edit?usp=sharing

Starting this week’s thread with some of the many thoughtful & important responses to Israel & Gaza, including @wihorne’s plea for genuine peace:

In Case of Emergency

A Plea for Genuine Peace in Liberation

On May 30, 1881, Frederick Douglass gave a speech in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia about his longtime friend and fellow-abolitionist John Brown. “Did John Brown draw his sword against slavery,” he asked, “and thereby lose his life in vain?” Twenty-two years after Brown was executed for trying to spark an abolitionist rebellion of enslaved people in north…

2 years ago · 7 likes · Dr. William Horne

Hugh J. Curran wrote for @jricole’s Informed Comment on how Irish history resonates in Gaza:

https://www.juancole.com/2023/10/irish-history-resonates.html

Here’s @EdgeofSports for @thenation on the Jewish peace protest in DC & the rebirth of the Jewish Justice Movement:

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/jewish-voice-peace-protest-dc/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=thenation&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

& @shadihamid wrote for @washingtonpost on the need for all of us to have some intellectual humility when it comes to a fraught debate like this one:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/16/intellectual-humility-israel-palestine-debate/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk3NDI4ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjk4ODExMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTc0Mjg4MDAsImp0aSI6ImM0NDZkY2ZlLWYxOTQtNDA1ZS1iM2QxLWIzM2RkZWQ2MTg0NyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDIzLzEwLzE2L2ludGVsbGVjdHVhbC1odW1pbGl0eS1pc3JhZWwtcGFsZXN0aW5lLWRlYmF0ZS8ifQ.klK7K5WIeAn-K6DVcdO_nE3dIAUXbnytRRf8ru_-qGo

Lots of other great public scholarly writing this week as well, including @RickyRiccardi for @64parishes on Louis Armstrong & New Orleans (h/t @lynellgeorge):

https://64parishes.org/de-satch-uration

Here’s @KCorinealdi for @ThePublicSquare on seeing Panama City through the eyes of Black elders (h/t @Reighangillam):

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/10/16/seeing-panama-city-through-black-elders/chronicles/where-i-go/

For his weekly @BaltimoreHist column, @EmmanuelMehr wrote about a slave trader’s assault on a white abolitionist & the resulting trial:

https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/baltimore-slave-trader-austin-woolfolk-s-assault-of-benjamin-lundy-and-the-trial-that-followed-1827

& check out this great @KeneAkers thread on the very American stories of Frederick Douglass’ three sons (h/t @RobertS64663550):

https://twitter.com/KeneAkers/status/1715467514178834496?s=20

Turning back to current events, @MollyJongFast wrote for @VanityFair on Jim Jordan & the GOP chaos in the House:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/jim-jordan-gop-house

Also on the Speaker of the House, here’s @MattDallek for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on historical contexts (more @madebyhistory goodness below):

https://time.com/6326141/gop-house-speaker-history-john-birch/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=242937632

& also for @VanityFair, here’s @eveb on the Pioneer Woman’s bizarre but telling links to the murderous histories behind Killers of the Flower Moon:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/10/the-strange-but-true-story-of-the-pioneer-womans-link-to-killers-of-the-flower-moon

Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @talia_n on the Korean War’s Borinqueneers:

https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/borinqueneers/

The new episode of @LatinoUSA, produced by @DaisyJourno, features @mireyalozaphd & her bracero uncle Juan Loza:

https://www.latinousa.org/2023/10/20/juanthebracero/

For the latest episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast, @lmacthompson1 @llassabe & @LeahLochoa talked Dirty Dancing & 80s feminisms:

https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1714628791262474511?s=20

For @redmonk’s podcast, @KateHolterhoff interviewed @PhDhurtBrain on the history of AI (h/t @HermioneClone):

https://redmonk.com/videos/the-docs-are-in-a-history-of-ai-with-dr-tobias-wilson-bates/

For @thebigstoryfpn, @svershbow talked about her illuminating @esquire piece on the secret world of book blurbs:

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/10/20/inside-the-hilarious-secretive-and-petty-world-of-book-blurbs/

& for an important upcoming conversation, check out @TeaMerchant1773’s webinar for @BOSTeaParty250 this Monday:

https://twitter.com/TeaMerchant1773/status/1715490424620507334?s=20

Lots more goodness for TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @ialmarashi on the origins of Hamas:

https://time.com/6324221/hamas-origins-history/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=242184960

@suzanneenzerink wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the Travis King saga & the diplomatic damage of racism:

https://time.com/6325500/travis-king/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=242724577

& finally for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s @petecanttweet on the Walt Disney Company’s centennial:

https://time.com/6323556/disney-100-history/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=241909933

Over at @BlkPerspectives, the Race & Latin America Forum continued this week, including @jasminephd on Black actresses in Brazil:

https://www.aaihs.org/black-actresses-as-symbols-of-resistance-to-brazilian-racial-democracy/

@tropigalia wrote for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on the importance of revisiting Carolina Maria de Jesus:

https://www.aaihs.org/posthumous-authority-revisiting-carolina-maria-de-jesus/

While Stephanie Reist wrote for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on the parallel work of reckoning with whiteness in Brazil:

https://www.aaihs.org/reckoning-with-whiteness-in-brazil/

& the @BlkPerspectives Race & Latin America Forum concluded with Joāo Gabriel Rabello Sodré & Vítor Antunes on Rio’s Carnival Quilombo:

https://www.aaihs.org/rios-carnival-quilombo/

A pair of great new scholarly books dropped this week, including @FictionsofHaiti’s Awakening the Ashes from @UNC_Press (h/t @JuliaGaffield):

https://twitter.com/JuliaGaffield/status/1714284832929538310?s=20

& also published this week was @nonmodernist’s Before Fanfiction from @lsupress (h/t @JLaurenceCohen):

https://lsupress.org/9780807180273/before-fanfiction/

@ProenzaColes shares another important recent publication, @ProfCeceliaM’s Making the Latino South from @UNC_Press:

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469676050/making-the-latino-south/

@kgmkenny wrote for @OUPHistory’s on the new 25^th anniversary edition of his vital book Making Sense of the Molly Maguires:

https://blog.oup.com/2023/10/making-sense-of-the-molly-maguires-today/

& check out this interview with @profjasonruiz for the @UTexasPress blog on his new book Narco Media:

https://utpress.utexas.edu/blog/2023/10/20/qa-with-jason-ruiz-on-latinidad-popular-culture-and-americas-war-on-drugs/

Speaking of important new books, @kathleen_belew reviewed @maddow’s Prequel for @washingtonpost:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/10/17/rachel-maddow-prequel-fascism-book-review/

Gonna end with a couple more favorites from the week as usual, including @HistoryToday’s ghost story forum featuring @DrFrancisYoung @_drsang @tait_clodagh & @EllenFWalker:

https://twitter.com/HistoryToday/status/1713857501106487352?s=20

For the latest entry in her excellent Review Roulette newsletter, @gvaughnjoy applied a feminist lens to Pleasantville:

Review Roulette

Bathtubs, Books, and the Female Orgasm

(Contains light spoilers) Pleasantville (1998) – Feminist Keeping our reviews in the hyper-specific category of 1998 meta-media named for a fictional show within the film and examining the lives of those we think we understand because we witness them day in and day out in 24-hour instalments, this week’s…

2 years ago · Vaughn Joy

Finally, two ways to reflect on 150 weeks of #ScholarSunday threads, including the latest of @DrDionGeorgiou’s parallel, essential Stop, Look, & Listen compilations:

The Academic Bubble

Stop, Look, and Listen (15.10.23)

This is part of the ‘Stop, Look, and Listen’ series, a freely available digest of articles and podcasts (and occasionally programmes and films) that I’ve found engaging and insightful over the past week. I also maintain a regular record of all these in the…

2 years ago · 3 likes · 4 comments · Dion Georgiou

& yesterday I wrote a meta-thread reflecting on these first 150 #ScholarSunday threads & why I believe doing & sharing this work is important on many levels:

https://twitter.com/AmericanStudier/status/1715744529683214427?s=20

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so as I’ve asked every week for 150 now, please share more writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & here’s to the next 150 weeks & to solidarity in all this great work, all! #twitterstorians

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