#ScholarSunday thread 156

Published on December 3, 2023

It’s the most wonderful time of the week—time for my 156^th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add 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 @m7mdkurd for @thenation on Palestinians claiming the right to tell their story (h/t @KrysFrancois):

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestinians-claim-the-right-to-narrate/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=thenation&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Really great edition of @steve_vladeck’s “One First” newsletter, focused on the anniversary of Belva Lockwood becoming the first woman to argue for the Supreme Court:

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1729130821473476935?s=20

Two excellent journal special issues dropped this week, including @JCWE1’s edited by @hidehirota & featuring @BethLewWilliams & many more (h/t @katemasur):

https://twitter.com/katemasur/status/1729552442100998609?s=20

& check out this special issue of @TeachHistoryAJM on history fun & games, edited by @GeekyPedagogy:

https://openjournals.bsu.edu/teachinghistory/index

Here’s Kenneth Mohammed for @TheGuardian on an important new exhibition on the Black Atlantic & the slave trade (h/t @OlivetteOtele):

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/dec/01/the-black-atlantic-exhibition-takes-an-unflinching-look-at-the-sins-of-the-past-and-offers-a-vision-of-repair?CMP=share_btn_tw

While Tracy Schorn wrote for @SmithsonianMag on how Americans are learning to love the controversial Thaddeus Stevens (h/t @develvishist):

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/america-just-now-learning-love-thaddeus-stevens-best-hated-man-us-history-180983235/

& for the latest installment of @BaltimoreHist, @EmmanuelMehr wrote about railroad infrastructure & a Civil War-era riot:

https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/railroad-infrastructure-and-the-pratt-street-riot-of-1861

Turning to current events, vital essay from @newsbysamuels in @NewYorker on an effort to ban his book (h/t @classroomtools):

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/when-your-own-book-gets-caught-up-in-the-censorship-wars

@Will_Bunch’s column for @PhillyInquirer is a must-read as always, this time on the press in a perilously “post-truth” future:

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/free-press-right-wing-authoritarianism-20231126.html

Here’s @bleachbred for his @medium column on Trump, Evangelicals, & the perilous state of American democracy:

https://medium.com/the-polis/donald-trump-white-evangelicals-the-far-right-and-the-perilous-state-of-american-democracy-82d4ac0778a8?source=social.tw&_branch_match_id=892412826874196203&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz8nMy9bLTU3JLM3VS87P1S8uDAmtMCsvN3VNAgAvVDy0IwAAAA%3D%3D

Finally, here are two of the many excellent pieces on Sandra Day O’Connor’s passing, including @ErikLoomis for Lawyers, Guns & Money:

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/12/oconnor-2

& for @Slate, @Dahlialithwick & @mjs_DC wrote a thoughtful obit for O’Connor & the sad ending of her judicial legacy:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/sandra-day-oconnor-obit-sad-legacy.html

Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring Dylan Penningroth on Black civil rights before the Movement:

https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/black-civil-rights/

The new episode of @SkippedHistory features @mguariglia on his book Police & the Empire City & the early history of the NYPD:

The NYPD and Policing's "Small Toolkit"

For the @biographersintl podcast, @ekwashington interviewed @rachelswarns on her book on slavery & the Catholic Church:

https://biographersinternational.org/news/podcast/podcast-154-rachel-l-swarns/

Episode 3 of @DorothyERoberts’ #TornApart from @MsMagazine is now out & focuses on the child welfare system’s entanglements with the criminal legal system:

https://msmagazine.com/podcast/torn-apart-the-carceral-web/

Two episodes of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast dropped this week, including an “emergency” discussion of Napoleon with @lrbobrien & @CorinneGressang:

https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1729127666966831477?s=20

& also check out this episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM featuring @lmchervinsky on The American President:

https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1730199141773443181?s=20

Not a podcast episode, but @bestoneTX’s keynote address for the Southern Jewish Historical Society conference at @RiceUniversity has now been posted:

https://twitter.com/bestoneTX/status/1729952343733514458?s=20

Lots of great work for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @historianmeg on the history behind the devastating shortage of Black doctors:

https://time.com/6333653/black-doctors-racism-history/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=251712097

@paulmrenfro wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on what Ryan White revealed & what he obscured about the AIDS epidemic:

https://time.com/6340507/ryan-white-world-aids-day/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=252082893

Here’s @blazingsandals for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on why we need to better remember Meriwether Lewis’ suicide:

https://time.com/6340942/meriwether-lewis-suicide-history/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=252238527

& finally, Doug Rossinow wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on Joe Biden & Israel:

https://time.com/6340511/biden-israel-history/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=251735001

Elsewhere in @TIMEHistory, editor @OBWax wrote thoughtfully on what the Holocaust contributed to Henry Kissinger’s worldview:

https://time.com/4813451/henry-kissinger-holocaust-worldview/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=251846754

& speaking of public history blogs, I’m very excited that the great @myHNN is back, now sponsored by @bunkhistory & @urichmond:

https://twitter.com/myHNN/status/1730578474094506292?s=20

Lots of great work for @BlkPerspectives this week as well, including @bunch_dr70555 on Joyce Ladner & the SNCC:

https://www.aaihs.org/joyce-ladner-and-sncc/

While M. Keith Claybrook wrote for @BlkPerspectives on better remembering Martin Luther King Jr.’s moral plan for justice:

https://www.aaihs.org/dr-king-and-a-moral-plan-for-justice/

& here’s E. James West for @BlkPerspectives with the latest installment in his DOCUMERICA series, this time on Black Appalachia:  

https://www.aaihs.org/documenting-black-appalachia/

Two great @BlkPerspectives book reviews this week as well, including @DylanGOHara1 on J.J. Butts’ book Dark Mirror from @ohiostatepress:

https://www.aaihs.org/enshrining-black-countermodernism-new-deal-skepticism/

& @robgreeneII reviewed @DrHettie2017 & Melissa Ziobro’s edited collection A Seat at the Table from @upmiss:

https://www.aaihs.org/black-women-public-intellectuals-in-u-s-history-and-culture/

Speaking of A Seat at the Table, I blogged about it as part of an October series on great new scholarly books that y’all should still check out:

https://americanstudier.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-23-2023-new-scholarly-books.html

& speaking of great new scholarly books, @MissCaton’s African Musicians in the Atlantic World is now out from @uvapress:

https://twitter.com/uvapress/status/1729513664754155818?s=20

Here’s an excerpt in @TheAtlantic from another important new book, @TimAlberta’s on Evangelicals & Trump (h/t @JenishaWatts):

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/evangelical-christian-nationalism-trump/676150/

Current Pub’s Author’s Corner feature interviewed @LoiselleAim on her new book Beyond Norma Rae from @UNC_Press:

https://currentpub.com/2023/11/28/the-authors-corner-with-aimee-loiselle/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest&utm_content=2023/11/28

While for @chronicle, Catherine Gallagher reviewed @n_j_dames’ fascinating new book from @PrincetonUPress on the history of the chapter:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-birth-of-the-chapter

& check out this great thread from @WalterDGreason on numerous resources from his public scholarly work, including his recent book projects on CRT, hip hop, & more:

https://twitter.com/WalterDGreason/status/1730587844064800962?s=20

Couple important books are now available for pre-order, including @hollyguise’s Alaska Native Resilience from @UWAPress:

https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752525/alaska-native-resilience/

& also available for pre-order from @RLPGBooks is The Daughters of Immigrants, featuring @robinfield’s essay on @SusanDarraj:

https://twitter.com/robinfield/status/1729248535030517986?s=20

Finally, tons more great books can be found on @contingent_mag’s annual, vital list of books from scholars working off the tenure track:  

https://contingentmagazine.org/2023/11/27/2023-contingent-book-list/

Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as usual, including @SarahLWasserman for @insidehighered on the essence of the English Major (h/t @jshelat1):

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/11/27/market-english-major-lean-love-books-opinion

@damfales wrote for @yalereview on the rise of TV miniseries about catastrophes:

https://yalereview.org/article/adam-fales-streaming-polycrisis

For the latest installment in her Review Roulette newsletter, @gvaughnjoy watched her first James Bond film & analyzed genre, the end of the Cold War, & more:

The Old Bond Was Dying and the New One Struggled to Be Born

& speaking of @gvaughnjoy, she’s a featured scholar in this @Steve_Humphries @csmonitor article on why & how holiday films endure:

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2023/1128/They-can-t-all-be-Scrooge-How-holiday-films-shine

Finally & as ever, you can find a lot more great public scholarship in @DrDionGeorgiou’s Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter:

Stop, Look, and Listen #6

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please add more writing & work, podcasts, new & forthcoming books (including your own!) below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & may the holiday season get off to a restful start for y’all! #twitterstorians