February’s finally here, & with it my 164th #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:
Gonna start with a bunch of great work to help us kick off #BlackHistoryMonth, including @KeishaBlain with a wonderful reading list for @MsMagazine:
https://msmagazine.com/2024/01/31/recommended-books-women-black-history/
Thoughtful work as always from @ProenzaColes, this time for @thedailybeast on why it’s vital to carry Black history far beyond this month:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-are-we-still-segregating-black-history-in-february
Really enjoyed my fellow @SatEvePost columnist @MommaWanderlust’s account of her first visit to the @NMAAHC:
Speaking of museums, here’s Rhea Nayyar for @hyperallergic on how African American museums are responding to book bans (h/t @NewBlackMan):
While @PreciousFondren wrote for @Gothamist on @FiskLibrary & @SchomburgCenter’s event to honor Arturo Schomburg (h/t @lheltonian):
Lots of other great pieces on Black history this week, including @JSTOR_Daily highlighting @LynneeDenise’s new bio of Willie Mae Thornton from @utexaspress:
While @redclayscholar interviewed one of our greatest contemporary authors, @jesmimi, for @SCquarterly:
Another important interview, this time @UBC’s Faculty of Arts site talking with @darkfinance about his study of Black dispossession:
For the latest installment of @BaltimoreHist, @EmmanuelMehr highlighting the Black Panther Party’s free meal programs:
One of our most vital voices in preserving & sharing Black history, @WalterDGreason, wrote for Genius Locus on the place-making tradition (h/t @robgreeneII):
& I’ve connected to Dr. Greason & so many others through Twitter, so I greatly enjoyed @nonlinearnotes for @WIRED on Black Twitter, featuring thoughts from @dfreelon & @DocDre:
https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-post-elon-musk-x/
Connecting #BlackHistoryMonth to current events, here’s @NiaToniTone for @MotherJones on Black activists & Palestine (h/t @singerphd):
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/black-activists-palestine-delegations/
For another vital historical take on Israel & Palestine, check out @geoff_levin for @slate on Jewish activists fighting for Palestine (h/t @dnbrgr):
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/history-israel-palestine-american-jewish-committee.html
Elsewhere in current events public scholarship, @rickperlstein wondered for his new @TheProspect column where the cultural works on the rise of fascism are:
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-01-31-hole-in-the-culture/
While @bleachbred wrote for his @Medium column on Miss America, public platforms, & the politics of polarization:
& @queenie4rmnola wrote for her @Medium column on why #BlackHistoryMonth is so triggering for some white people:
Two more great essays to share in this first part of the thread, including @nicholsonbaker8 for @NYMag on why so many folks mistakenly think aliens have visited Earth:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/leslie-kean-ufo-sightings-aliens.html
& here’s @tlecaque for @AgeofRevs on the conquest of Quebec, wars in early New England, & Puritan apocalypticism:
https://ageofrevolutions.com/2024/01/29/the-conquest-of-quebec-and-puritan-apocalypticism/
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @juliairwin on her new book on disaster relief:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/disaster-relief/
We’ve finally got the first @draftingthepast of 2024, featuring @BenjaminEPark on his new book on the history of Mormonism:
https://draftingthepast.com/podcast-episodes/episode-39-benjamin-park-stays-rooted/
Two episodes of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast dropped this week, including @DrSarahMyers & @LukeTruxal kicking off their weekly coverage of Masters of the Air:
& check out a jam-packed episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast on Glory, featuring @HilaryGreen77 @AdamHDomby & @cwbarr:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1753074330047766642?s=20
The latest episode of @CivicsPod focuses on Clara Barton & the founding of the Red Cross (h/t @EphieBernstein):
While the new episode of @kaskew’s Lost Ladies of Lit features @sptavera87 on Zelda Fitzgerald’s novel Save Me the Waltz:
The new episode of @DrHettie2017 & @TrotterUMB’s Black in Boston & Beyond features activist Mario Rodrigues of @OfficialMBK617:
For the new episode of @PodOnlyKnowsPod hosts @kelly_j_baker & @ProbablyRealJB interviewed the great @JLWeisenfeld:
The latest episode of @Dahlialithwick’s Amicus features @ProfMSinha on the 14th Amendment & Trump’s campaign:
While the new episode of @MelissaLaLinea’s Border Chronicle podcast features @ajbauer on how the right-wing hijacked border narratives:
& finally, for a special @macrodosepod roundtable @sarahljaffe @LalehKhalili & @kmrabie talked about the political economy of Palestine:
Great pieces for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week as usual, including Kirsten Wood on Dry January & temperance histories:
@Mical_Raz wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the limits of mandatory reporting for preventing child abuse:
& two @TIMEHistory @madebyhistory pieces this week on Israel & Palestine, including Jessica Hanser on a historical approach to the conflict:
While Tamar Hofnung wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the historical precedents for authoritarian regimes like Hamas calling themselves anticolonial:
The @BlkPerspectives 10th anniversary celebration continued this week, featuring @GuyEmersonMount on Black thought:
https://www.aaihs.org/blackthoughtsmatter-2/
Also for the @BlkPerspectives anniversasry celebration, here’s @KeishaBlain on transnational Black feminism:
https://www.aaihs.org/on-transnational-black-feminism-2/
& finally for the @BlkPerspectives anniversary celebration, here’s @drashleyfarmer on radicalism, remembrance, & Rosa Parks:
https://www.aaihs.org/rosa-parks-radicalism-and-remembrance-2/
Couple of important new scholarly books out this week, including @JasonAHiggins’ Prisoners After War from @umasspress:
https://twitter.com/JasonAHiggins/status/1751690447699800270?s=20
Also out this week is @TyeshaMaddoxPhD’s A Home Away from Home from @PennPress (h/t @byeliseam):
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512824544/a-home-away-from-home/
Now available to read for free is the Intro to @citiless’ forthcoming book Against Extraction from @DukePress:
https://twitter.com/DukePress/status/1752013814222999683?s=20
Now available for pre-order is @DocMattMou @ColineSchupfer & Mizue Aizeki’s edited collection Resisting Borders & Technologies of Violence from @haymarketbooks:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2094-resisting-borders-and-technologies-of-violence
& also available for pre-order from @haymarketbooks is Lyle C. May’s Witness, with a forward from @daniellepurifoy (h/t @EmpowermentAve):
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2102-witness?mc_cid=be6de24728&mc_eid=c34488b89b
For more coverage of recent scholarly books, here’s Clayton Childress in conversation with @dan_sinykin for @PublicBooks:
https://www.publicbooks.org/life-inside-the-fiction-factory-dan-sinykin-on-conglomerate-publishing/
While @MichaelSandli13 in @LAReviewofBooks reviewed @profjasonruiz’s Narcomedia from @UTexasPress:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/white-centric-blowback-on-jason-ruizs-narcomedia/
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as usual, including @Meeratweets for @NewYorker on vultures (h/t @JeffSharlet):
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-nepal/consider-the-vulture
Here’s @oline_eaton for @contingent_mag’s Revive Your Darlings series, revisiting a piece on the 1970s “Midi-Craze”:
https://contingentmagazine.org/2024/01/29/the-great-leg-show/
Did you really think @gvaughnjoy was going to write about anything other than Groundhog Day for her great Review Roulette newsletter this week?
& speaking of #GroundhogDay, I concluded a weeklong blog series on quirky American traditions with a few ways to explain this strangest of our holidays:
https://americanstudier.blogspot.com/2024/02/february-2-2024-quirky-american.html
Finally, if you can’t get enough public scholarly goodness (& I feel you there), make sure to check out @DrDionGeorgiou’s Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter as always:
PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books—especially for #BlackHistoryMonth—below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & here’s to a great February! #twitterstorians