Here it is, my 158th #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 @Livi_Empson for @Guardian on a new literary award that will be judged by incarcerated people (h/t @dwaynebetts):
Here’s @lizkimtweets for @Gothamist on the frustrating question of why New York’s public libraries are always on the chopping block:
I loved this article from @MarieMyungOkLee & her son @JasonJacobyLee for @TeenVogue on TV representations of autism (h/t @karl_jacoby):
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/autism-representation-growing-on-tv-is-it-any-good
& check out this open-access @CompAmStudies Christmas Studies special issue edited by @ThomasRuysSmith & featuring @hodgepodge96 @gvaughnjoy @RJF1209 @ejwestuk & more:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ycas20/20/3-4?nav=tocList
Speaking of @gvaughnjoy, for the latest edition of her Review Roulette newsletter she thoughtfully hate-watched the holiday classic A Christmas Story:
Turning to current events, @summabis interviewed Palestinian poets @rashaabdulhadi @samah_fadil & @prwath for @ElectricLit:
Here’s @mashagessen for @NewYorker on the complexities & limits of Holocaust memory in our current moment (the essay that, apparently & frustratingly, lost Gessen the Arendt Prize):
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust
Presidential historian @alexiscoe wrote for @esquire on what patriotism does & doesn’t mean in the Age of Trump:
While @lyzl wrote for @BusinessInsider on why so many celebrities are getting divorced & what that reveals about our changing society:
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-celebrities-are-getting-divorced-society-is-changing-2023-12
Important essay from @JeffSharlet in @inthesetimesmag on what we make of Leftists who fall down the right-wing rabbit hole:
Excellent @BostonReview forum on reclaiming freedom from the Right, featuring @OlufemiOTaiwo @libankerDC @MarxinHell @pvpbrussels @LornaBracewell @MarkVinPaul & others:
https://twitter.com/BostonReview/status/1734668864011579615?s=20
While @bleachbred wrote for his @Medium column on Trump, the 2024 election, & our continued slide toward dictatorship:
Here's William Trollinger for @ConversationUS on the 100th anniversary of the KKK’s attack on a Catholic university (h/t @OGrady_Texas):
& @SilasLapham used Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi & the March on Washington to consider whether we have really progressed:
https://interminablerambling.medium.com/have-we-experienced-progress-i-really-wonder-288799a5ec37
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring Robin Judd on WWII Jewish war brides:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/jewish-war-brides/
For America: A History Podcast, @thisistheheff talked with @ThomasRuysSmith & @XmasPastPodcast’s Brian Earl on Christmas in America:
While @historyrespawn talked Call of Duty: Modern Warfare & guns in video games with @drewmckevitt:
& two episodes of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM dropped this week, including this one on Godzilla Minus One featuring @ata225 & Bill Tsutsui:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1733961517702279372?s=20
& also check out this new episode of @HerbertHistory’s HATM podcast featuring my @Fitchburg_State colleague @katisjewell on High Fidelity:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1735309582157619265?s=20
More great work for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @AlffDave on the history of high-speed rail in America:
Also for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s @DiaDamico on how the politics of fear damage American education:
Zachary Shore wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the horrific American history of targeting civilians in wartime:
& finally for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s Halimat Somotan on what an overlooked Nigerian activist can help the contemporary labor movement learn:
Elsewhere for @TIME, important essay from @esglaude on why DEI should not be the target in our ongoing educational battles:
https://time.com/6458406/dei-campus-speech/
Check out @BlkPerspectives’ list of the year’s best Black history books, featuring @KidadaEWilliams @c_thorsson @profblmkelley @soulistaphd @FictionsofHaiti @JTRoane @cmmphd @JoanFloresVill1 & more:
https://www.aaihs.org/the-best-black-history-books-of-2023/
Speaking of important scholarly books, out this week is @ElinevanOmmen’s Nicaragua Must Survive from @ucpress:
https://twitter.com/ElinevanOmmen/status/1734501252577239315?s=20
Also recently published is @Prof_Evans’s Black Feminist Writing from @SUNYPress (h/t @WalterDGreason):
https://blackfeministwriting.net/book
& likewise newly out is Eric Fure-Slocum & Claire Goldstene’s edited collection Contingent Facultty & the Remaking of Higher Education from @IllinoisPress (h/t @llassabe):
https://twitter.com/llassabe/status/1735059232729215223?s=20
Now available for pre-order is @JasonAHiggins’ Prisoners After War from @umasspress:
https://twitter.com/JasonAHiggins/status/1734715427903656103?s=20
Also available for pre-order is @RayBoomhower’s The Ultimate Protest from @UNMPress:
https://www.unmpress.com/9780826365705/the-ultimate-protest/
& likewise available for pre-order is @mcklann’s Wardship & the Welfare State from @UnivNebPress (h/t @ledunla)
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496218179/
For another way to publish great scholarship, thanks to @ElizabethLBlock for sharing the submission guidelines for Metropolitan Museum Journal:
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as usual, including @nicoledonawho for @JSTOR_Daily on pedagogical uses for that site:
https://daily.jstor.org/teaching-summary-skills-with-jstor-daily/
@holdengraber interviewed Merve Emre for @brickliterary:
https://brickmag.com/in-the-margins-with-merve-emre-a-conversation/
Wonderful @mattzollerseitz obit for the amazing Andre Braugher in @vulture:
& for yesterday’s 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, check out my weeklong blog series on histories & contexts for that foundational American protest:
https://americanstudier.blogspot.com/2023/12/december-11-2023-boston-tea-party.html
As usual, you can find lots more great public scholarly reading & listening at @DrDionGeorgiou’s Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter:
PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so share more writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books (including your own!) below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & hope the holiday season is treating y’all well! #twitterstorians
PPS. More great public scholarship in about half an hour, with today’s #NYTReadalong featuring @Dieselfunk & @WalterDGreason on their Graphic History of Hip Hop:
https://twitter.com/neilparekh/status/1735758993128063304?s=20