Since January can feel never-ending, it’s only fitting that my last #ScholarSunday thread of the month--& 163rd overall—is supersized, full of even more public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below & enjoy! #twitterstorians
First, a reminder that I’m now also sharing these threads on my newsletter:
Starting with a few favs from the week as usual, including a wonderful essay from my @Fitchburg_State English Studies colleague Michael Hoberman for @tabletmag:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/jews-in-the-wilderness
@AustinMcCoy3 wrote for @AHAhistorians’ #AHAPerspectives on studying & teaching 50 years of hip hop:
Speaking of @AHAhisorians’ #AHAPerspectives, I loved this member spotlight on the awesome @robgreeneII:
Important essay from @historivist for @contingent_mag on Native American nuns attending Rhode Island’s Salve Regina College:
https://contingentmagazine.org/2024/01/24/in-their-own-voices/
While David Martínez wrote for @TheJERPano on how the authors of Native American resistance literature sustained their indigenous voices:
Turning to other great public scholarly writing from the week, here’s @alex_j_white in the open-access @GlobalHistJnl on Maya Angelou’s anti-colonial journalism:
Two more open-access articles to share this week, including @KCarrie for @CritStudsEd on digital citizenship education (h/t @WalterDGreason):
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17508487.2024.2307573
& @RezekJoe’s review essay on Haiti & the literature of revolution for @StudiesInRom is also open-access for 30 days:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/917076
For the latest essay in @PublicBooks’ Haiti series, N. Frédéric Pierre highlighted how the new nation helped delineate Black sovereignty:
Also for @PublicBooks, here’s Abby Schroering on creating & attending groundbreaking theater in apocalyptic times:
Provocative and important work from Matt Sandler for @thebafflermag on whether AI can help us remember a 19C African American poet:
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/stand-up-and-spout-sandler
For this week’s installment of @BaltimoreHist, @EmmanuelMehr highlighted the remarkable comeback story of a Black lynching victim:
https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/samuel-l-burton-s-remarkable-comeback-story
While @betsykellem wrote for @JSTOR_Daily on Nate Salsbury’s fraught but fascinating 1895 experiential show Black America:
& for many more examples of Black history we should better remember, check out @queenie4rmnola for her @Medium column:
https://allyfromnola.medium.com/what-do-you-wish-more-people-knew-about-black-history-62ef9c38c5c6
Turning to current events, here’s @DrAAAsare for @BostonReview on a South African activist who taught Zionism critically (h/t @daniel_dsj2110):
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-fred-dube-affair/
Important essay from @DavidColeACLU for @nybooks on “cancel culture” & the right’s threats to free speech:
While @lionel_trolling wrote for the Unpopular Front newsletter on what’s at stake in the “war on woke” (h/t @victorerikray):
Speaking of newsletters, I’m very excited that one of our most thoughtful & important voices on education,@joshua_r_eyler, has started his:
@fernandotormos @BrownPhDGirl & @ProfJanelleWong wrote for @apsrjournal on how political science departments responded to the George Floyd murder:
While @bleachbred wrote for his @Medium column on Nikki Haley, Trump, & the history & politics of xenophobia:
Still more great public scholarly writing on current events this week, including @MollyJongFast for @VanityFair on Roe at 51:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/roe-at-51-abortion-rights
@TIME excerpted @Fisher_DanaR’s forthcoming & vital book on apocalyptic optimism in response to climate change:
https://time.com/6565499/apocalyptic-optimism-climate-change/
Check out @johnastoehr’s latest piece, on the distinction between partisan & public skepticism of Biden’s economic policies:
While Michael Berk interviewed labor journalist & historian @GrimKim on our current labor movement for @AnandWrites’ The Ink:
Great @TeenVogue profile of indigenous actress & breakout Marvel star Alaqua Cox for @Kateisms (h/t @NatAmericanVote):
& I really enjoyed this coverage of @splcenter & @zorafestival’s efforts to preserve Florida’s historic Black Eatonville community (h/ @WalterDGreason):
https://twitter.com/splcenter/status/1750141435997749401?s=20
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @ResObscura on LSD & the CIA:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/lsd/
The new episode of @kjavadizadeh’s Close Readings features @accommodatingly on pop music, poetry, & Allan Peterson:
While the latest @buzzkillprof episode features Stephen Conn on images of rural American in both history & myth:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lies-of-the-land-rural-america-in-history-and-myth--58412442
The third episode of @bdownpatriarchy’s Season Three features @KateBooks on her new book The Woman They Could Not Silence:
While the latest episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast features @SarahKeyesPhD & Josh Garrett-Davis talking 1883 & Westerns:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1750175867190301101?s=20
A bunch of great new podcasts launched this week as well, including @ncpodcasts’ “Our New South” with @ProfBlackistone & @robgreeneII:
The first episodes of @waitmanb’s much-anticipated @HolocaustPod are now available:
https://thhp.buzzsprout.com/
New episodes of the @socannex podcast are now dropping every Monday, such as the latest featuring authors @DromiShai & @heavenwasblue:
https://socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
& check out the first @haymarketbooks original podcast, featuring @gabrielwinant @andrewelrod @alexnpress @emmateit @_timbarker & Ben Mabie:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/505-introducing-haymarket-originals
Also two great multimedia interviews to share this week, including @WNYC’s All of It on @tenementmuseum’s new exhibit, featuring @anniepolland & @ProfLMH:
https://www.wnyc.org/story/tenement-museum-tells-story-black-family-1860s-new-york/
& for @democracynow, @rickperlstein stopped by to discuss Trump’s grip on the GOP in context of the history of American conservatism:
Great work for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week as ever, including @waitmanb on why comparing Hamas to the Holocaust is a major mistake:
Brooke L. Blower wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the new series Masters of the Air & WWII histories:
& here’s Ashley Steenson for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on how the history of Alabama politics helps explain Trump’s appeal:
Elsewhere for @TIMEHistory, editor @OBWax wrote about an important new book on Holocaust histories:
& @deguzmanchad wrote for @TIMEHistory on why February 29th became Leap Day:
The awesome @BlkPerspectives has finished the first of two weeks celebrating its 10th anniversary, with the Forum starting with @LudicaBlog on Nat Turner:
https://www.aaihs.org/why-did-nat-turner-confess-2/
The @BlkPerspectives Forum continued with Lindsey Elizabeth Jones on the criminalization of the Black girl:
https://www.aaihs.org/intersectional-critiques-of-the-criminalization-of-black-girl/
While @cjamesbonner’s contribution to the @BlkPerspectives Forum on the frustratingly unequal meanings of breaking the law:
https://www.aaihs.org/a-troubled-past-and-the-meanings-of-breaking-the-law-2/
& Destiny Crockett concluded the first week of the @BlkPerspectives anniversary Forum with a great piece on Black mothers & the birth control movement:
https://www.aaihs.org/black-mothers-and-the-birth-control-movement/
A couple important new scholarly books are out this week, including @ahylton26’s Madness from @HachetteBooks:
https://twitter.com/ahylton26/status/1749453041227415614?s=20
While for @nytimes @DamonTweedyMD reviewed another important new book, @uche_blackstock’s Legacy from @TheVikingPress:
Also check out this excerpt from @uche_blackstock’s book for @PostOpinions (h/t @HarlemGirl59):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/22/uche-blackstock-legacy-black-doctors/
Now available for pre-order is Odie Henderson’s Black Caesars & Foxy Cleopatras from @mattzollerseitz’s MZS Press:
https://mzs.press/SIGNED-Black-Caesars-and-Foxy-Cleopatras-Hardcover-NEW-p618328058
Also available for pre-order is @rkdcolby86’s An Unholy Traffic from @OUPHistory (with discount code EXAHA24):
& for @nybooks, Ian Frazier reviewed two of @a_puglionesi’s books on white supremacy’s damage to indigenous land:
Gonna end with a few great pieces from the week on literature, including @YosefLindell for @JewishReview on the iconic Avram Davidson (h/t @AvramDavidson):
While @bethanysays_ interviewed @devoneylooser for @TheRambling_ on her experiences recovering the trailblazing Porter sisters:
https://the-rambling.com/2024/01/21/issue16-johnsen-looser/
& for my latest @SatEvePost Considering History column, I highlighted the forgotten bestseller Carolyn Wells & @rrb_writer’s forthcoming bio:
Finally, this amazing thread from @latifnasser is a work of creative nonfiction in its own right:
https://twitter.com/latifnasser/status/1750952860131729544?s=20
& if you want even more public scholarly goodness, as always make sure to check out @DrDionGeorgiou’s weekly Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter:
PS. Chock-full as this thread may be, I’m sure I still missed plenty, so please add more writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & see you in February, all! #twitterstorians