No better way to prep for the Superb Owl than my 165th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, sports (& scholarship) fans! #twitterstorians
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Starting with a bunch of great pieces as #BlackHistoryMonth continues, including Vann Newkirk II for @TheAtlantic on photographer Ernest Cole (h/t @BrentNYT):
@_ToniaHill interviewed @ArionneNettles for @TheTRiiBE on her debut book We Are the Culture on Black Chicago:
For @MsMagazine @VTfeminist excerpted her book A Woman’s Life is a Human Life on Black women & reproductive justice, out now from @groveatlantic:
@nwhittaker10 continued his four-part series on Black horror for @the_point_mag, focusing on the 2019 film Atlantics (h/t @DavidSchmid1):
https://thepointmag.com/criticism/haunted-by-the-past/
Here’s Matthew Wills for @JSTOR_Daily on Black women unionists in the Confederacy during the Civil War (h/t @DukeAAAS):
https://daily.jstor.org/black-women-unionists-in-the-confederacy/
& for this week’s installment of @BaltimoreHist, @EmmanuelMehr wrote about an enslaved woman who used the 1840 presidential election to escape to freedom:
Turning to other great public scholarship from the week, @RogueChieftan wrote for @SciHistoryOrg on arsenic, racism, & empire in the Americas (h/t @JTRoane):
https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/rings-of-fire/
Here’s @josephwpeterson for @AgeofRevs on the fight for anti-racist collective memory in 19C France & today:
@profblmkelley responded perfectly to David Frum’s “uncanceling” of Woodrow Wilson for @thedailybeast:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/woodrow-wilson-should-stay-canceled
For his blog, @SilasLapham, director of @LES_Center, wrote about what makes Smith’s work & legacy endure:
https://interminablerambling.medium.com/lillian-smiths-enduring-legacy-9043e46d5ddb
Beautiful piece from @KimiColney for @contingent_mag on her father, her family and heritage, & historical memory & writing:
https://contingentmagazine.org/2024/02/08/historians-as-parents-my-fathers-memory/
David Reynolds wrote for nybooks on the dominant representations of Jews in antebellum popular culture (h/t @dcarlabrams):
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/02/22/a-fiendish-fascination-antebellum-jews/
While @alexbronzini wrote for @PublicBooks on the 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints that has helped sell fascism to moderates:
@FabiolaCineas of @voxdotcom interviewed @llassabe about her new book & the longstanding conservative war on higher ed (h/t @HerbertHistory):
Speaking of @llassabe, also check out her write-up of the @Ideas_History #AHA2024 roundtable on gun histories beyond the 2nd Amendment:
https://s-usih.org/2024/02/s-usih-at-aha-2024/
& speaking of @Ideas_History, here’s @LBRolsky with the first part of a series on the current scholarship of American conservatism:
https://s-usih.org/2024/02/why-the-study-of-the-right-is-broken-part-i/
Turning to current events, great essay from Anna Kornbluh for @Parapraxis_Mag on the climate crisis (h/t @RColesworthy):
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/we-didnt-start-the-fire
Important thread from @johnastoehr on why we need to see Trump as the president of a confederacy within the US:
https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/1754855903025606992?s=20
While @rickperlstein wrote for his @TheProspect column on how the far right represents the real threat at the US-Mexico border:
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-02-07-real-threat-at-our-border/
& here’s @bleachbred for a Super Bowl edition of his @Medium column, featuring Taylor, Travis, & white supremacist sexual politics:
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @jon_chad on the history of pinball:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/pinball/
The new episode of @ProfBlackistone & @robgreeneII’s #OurNewSouth features Sil Ganzo from @ourbridge, Daniel Valdez from @WelcomingUSA, & Colton Bane from @clcmemphis on immigration:
https://www.museumofthenewsouth.org/digital/our-new-south-podcast/
While the newest episode of @BradleyOnishi’s @StraightWhiteJC features @kelly_j_baker on how we’re still living in the Klan’s America:
Episode 4 of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod features @gavrieldrosenfe about real & imagined threats of a Nazi return to power:
https://twitter.com/HolocaustPod/status/1754486597439897954?s=20
The new episode of @pshackel’s @modscholarpod features Kathy Peiss on her book The Information Hunters on librarians & spies in WWII Europe:
While @niels_eichhorn’s War of the Rebellion featured Frank Cirillo on his book The Abolitionist Civil War from @lsupress:
& the latest episode of @UrOrientalist’s @east_podcast featured @Alexander_Avina on border chaos, past & present:
Two new episodes of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast this week, including @drsarahmyers & @luketruxal on Masters of the Air episode 3:
& the week’s other episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM featured @ColinColbourn on Ferrari & WWII aftermaths:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1755580195724030304?s=20
More good work from @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @hoffman_bruce & @Jacob_A_Ware on the evolution of online extremism:
@historyfellow wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the distinctions yet historical parallels between NIMBYs & YIMBYs:
While @FinisDunaway wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the Arctic Refuge & the weaponization of science for oil:
& for Super Bowl Sunday, here’s @RC_Go_Huskers for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the kicker who changed NFL history:
Elsewhere for @TIMEHistory, here’s @profsamperry on how we can analyze America’s continued shift away from organized religion:
https://time.com/6693016/americas-less-religious-politics-to-blame/
A trio of great @BlkPerspectives pieces this week, including @TheHistorianD on Dorothy Porter & the Black archives:
https://www.aaihs.org/dorothy-porter-archives-and-the-preservation-of-black-studies/
While @crutch4 wrote for @BlkPerspectives on Angela Davis’ early activism & intergenerational organizing:
https://www.aaihs.org/the-early-activism-angela-davis-and-intergenerational-organizing/
& here’s @caiobarbo for @BlkPerspectives on Black Brazilian poet Solano Trindade’s 1955 journey through the Iron Curtain:
https://www.aaihs.org/the-black-poets-journey-through-the-iron-curtain/
Lots of great new scholarly books out this week, including Adam McKible’s Circulating Jim Crow from @ColumbiaUP (h/t @PhilipLeventhal):
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/circulating-jim-crow/9780231212656
Also out this week is @jbwashing’s The Case for Open Borders from @haymarketbooks (h/t @ce_tracey):
https://twitter.com/jbwashing/status/1754902454561628537?s=20
Like published this week is @shosha_lala’s Indebted Mobilities for @UChicagoPress (h/t @DavarianBaldwin):
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo208350079.html
& finally out this week is @CNZander’s The Army Under Fire from @lsupress:
https://twitter.com/CNZander/status/1755958912803565725?s=20
Now available for pre-order is @danielsilliman’s One Lost Soul from @eerdmansbooks (h/t @heathwcarter):
https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878199/one-lost-soul/
Also available for pre-order is @lheltonian’s much-anticipated Scattered & Fugitive Things from @ColumbiaUP:
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugitive-things/9780231559546
& likewise available for pre-order is the perfect scholarly beach read, @E_Devienne’s Sand Rush from @OUPHistory:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sand-rush-9780197539750?cc=us&lang=en&
Speaking of @OUPHistory, @bookpage reviewed @eddafieldsblack’s forthcoming book from the press on the 1863 Combahee River Raid:
https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/combee-edda-l-fields-black-book-review/
& for Historical Studies in Education, @mattdelmont reviewed @ZebulonMiletsky’s book Before Busing from @UNC_Press (free PDF linked here):
https://twitter.com/mattdelmont/status/1756062274098229368?s=20
Gonna end with a few more cultural studies favorites from the week, including @gvaughnjoy for her Review Roulette newsletter on Sidney Poitier’s 1950 film debut:
@LuElla_DAmico wrote for @GenofMod on why we need to reclaim Pollyanna’s optimistic legacy in the 21st century:
Here’s @emilyraboteau for @nybooks on new works from Camille Dungy & Elizabeth Rush & maternity in the climate crisis (h/t @NYpoet):
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/02/22/a-new-environmental-canon-soil-camille-dungy/
Great essay from @thescrewballgrl for @ThePublicSquare on our timeless fascination with screwball comedies:
https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/02/08/timeless-romance-with-screwball-comedy/ideas/essay/
While @keithroysdon wrote for @CrimeReads on his favorite film & TV representations of newspapers:
https://crimereads.com/newspapers-movies-tv/
& for Super Bowl weekend, I ended a blog series on sports films with my pitch for a film on one of our most compelling & inspiring sports histories, the Celestials baseball team & their 1881 final game:
https://americanstudier.blogspot.com/2024/02/february-10-11-2024-americanstudying.html
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PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more writing & work, podcasts, new & forthcoming books (including your own) below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & have a great Super Bowl Sunday everybody! #twitterstorians