Connected with a number of new folks on here this week, so if you’re part of that cohort, welcome to the most consistent part of my #twitterstorians brand for well over three years now: my #ScholarSunday threads!
If you want to dip into that whole multi-year project, all of the prior #ScholarSunday threads are collected in this Google Doc:
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This week it’s time for my 167th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. As always, please share more below, & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians
First, a reminder that I’m now also sharing these threads on my newsletter:
Starting with lots more good work as we get into the last week of #BlackHistoryMonth, including @KeithKelleher6 for @ForgeOrganizing on four Black women organizers (h/t @WalterDGreason):
https://forgeorganizing.org/article/how-four-black-women-changed-labor-organizing-forever
@BrentNYT wrote for his @nytopinion column on 19th century New York’s most powerful Black woman (gift link here for the full article):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/elizabeth-gloucester-black-history.html
Here’s @archuletawrites for @BlackGirlNerds on groundbreaking politician Shirley Chisholm & her 21st century legacies:
https://blackgirlnerds.com/what-if-shirley-chisholm-ran-for-president-today/
Happy to welcome @MarovichRobert as a @SatEvePost colleague with this column on Black country songwriter Ted Jarrett:
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/02/the-black-songwriter-who-took-nashville-by-storm/
For @JSTOR_Daily, @emeraldfaith highlighted @jtroane’s vital work exploring Black ecologies in projects like Dark Agoras:
Great @NewsHour reporting on the long history of Black activists using maps & mapmaking (h/t @LeftofBlack):
Thanks to @AdrienneWrites for sharing the phenomenal new @ncstatecapitol project on the 130+ enslaved men who built & worked in the Capitol:
https://twitter.com/AdrienneWrites/status/1761379308155678943?s=20
While @wolverinewilson highlighted @SmithsonianMag’s Black ancestry project with photographer Drew Gardner:
https://twitter.com/wolverinewilson/status/1760064580892377316?s=20
& speaking of family histories & race, check out @ijbailey’s thoughtful, layered, & nuanced thread on privilege:
https://twitter.com/ijbailey/status/1759608371416908194?s=20
Turning to other great public scholarly writing from the week, here’s @lyzl for @lithub on the history of divorce in America (h/t @ShernaKhambatta):
https://lithub.com/what-american-divorces-tell-us-about-american-marriages/
Also for @lithub, powerful essay from @emmadries on her Manhattan childhood pre- & post-9/11 (h/t @jshelat1):
For this week’s installment of @BaltimoreHist, @EmmanuelMehr continued his series on the building of the city’s Inner Harbor:
Moving stuff from @DavidAvromBell for @nybooks on researching his mother’s story in her archives (h/t @CullmanNYPL):
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/02/20/my-mothers-archive-pearl-kazin/
Vital piece from Genie Giaimo for @LAReviewofBooks on college writing centers in this time of educational crisis (h/t @CaitlinLeeKelly):
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-college-writing-center-in-times-of-crisis/
While @mervatim interviewed @sophiepinkhmmm for @nybooks on education, criticism, & labor (h/t @MEASeybold):
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/02/13/wordlessness-in-labor-sophie-pinkham/
Turning to current events, here’s @nataliapetrzela for @MSNBC on RFK Jr.’s appeals to toxic masculinity:
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rfk-jr-trump-biden-comes-young-voters-rcna139357
While @bleachbred wrote for his @Medium Polis column on young women & progressive ideology in this political moment:
Another of @johnastoehr’s important election threads, this one on not losing sight of the real focus of the abortion debate:
https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/1761364993394540594?s=20
@lmchervinsky wrote for @BulwarkOnline on how sending military aid to Ukraine connects America’s strategic interests & values:
Here’s @rickperlstein for his @TheProspect column on recovering the neglected history of the state of Israel:
https://prospect.org/world/2024-02-21-neglected-history-state-of-israel/
Sports historian @tracie_canada wrote for @Guardian on the myth of college football teams & coaches as families:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/22/college-football-coaches-family-myth-fallacy
A trio of vital pieces of climate public scholarship this week, including reporting from @grist on land grant universities (h/t @karl_jacoby):
https://grist.org/project/equity/land-grant-universities-indigenous-lands-fossil-fuels/
While @ce_tracey wrote for @highcountrynews on tracing a cartography of loss in Mexicali’s Colorado River Family Album:
https://www.hcn.org/articles/a-cartography-of-loss-at-the-borderlands/
& @cassidyjrandall wrote for @RollingStone on how Cataract Canyon is returning to life despite histories of manmade destruction:
Inspired by one of our most frustrating current events stories, Biden’s possible curtailing of asylum claims at the border, I shared this thread on our histories of exclusion:
https://twitter.com/AmericanStudier/status/1760689419085086853?s=20
& @AssessmentG shared two important peer-reviewed articles this week, including Nicholas B. Lacy for @commedjournal on Black college students’ silence:
@AssessmentG also shared James Holly Jr. & Walter C. Lee for the Journal of Women & Minorities in Science & Engineering on Black men in engineering:
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @ingredient_x on the history of ice:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/ice/
For the @socannex podcast, @danielmorrison interviewed @HajYazdiha about her book on the struggle for the people’s MLK:
https://socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/hajar-yazdiha-on-the-struggle-for-the-peoples-king/
While episode 5 of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod features Martin Cüppers on lessons from the Sobibor photo album:
For @EndofSportPod, @JohannaMellis interviewed @ZidanSports on Gaza, genocide, & sporting politics:
https://theendofsport.podbean.com/e/episode-127-genocide-and-sporting-politics-with-karim-zidan/
For the latest episode of Our New South, @ProfBlackistone & @robgreeneII talked all things voting rights with @DerrickNAACP @Bakari_Sellers & @aimysteele:
The new episode of @kjavadizadeh’s Close Readings features @scriblerian on @TriciaLockwood’s “The Ode on Grecian Urn”:
For the latest episode of @LES_Center’s Dope with Lime, @SilasLapham interviewed @RaviHoward on his work with the Center:
While the latest episode of @CivicsPod highlights medical advancements during the Civil War (h/t @EphieBernstein)
@SWINTERSMITH hosts an important new @GBHNews podcast, What Is Owed?, on reparations & Boston (h/t @Walecarg):
https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/what-is-owed
While @lynne_bias hosts another great new podcast, @metmuseum’s Harlem Is Everywhere on the Harlem Renaissance & its legacies:
Finally, two new episodes of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast this week, including @LukeTruxal & @ColinColbourn on Masters of the Air Episode 5:
& @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast also featured @eddafieldsblack on Harriet as well as her new book from @OxUniPress:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1760669553087111663?s=20
Four new pieces for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @warrenjdennis on the EPA’s Good Neighbor rule:
Tamara J. Walker wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on African American artists as Cold War “Ambassadors”:
Here’s Amanda White Gibson for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on how debt has long been used to limit Black freedom:
Finally for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, Frederick J. Ryan Jr. wrote on the history of wine at the White House:
Another great @BlkPerspectives book review this week, with @AntiquatedMeds reviewing Gregory Nobles’ Life of Betsey Stockton from @UChicagoPress:
A bunch of important scholarly books were published this week, including Nathan Perl-Rosenthal’s Age of Revolutions from @HachetteBooks (h/t @daniel_dsj2110):
Also out this week is @soulfoodscholar’s The President’s Kitchen Cabinet from @UNC_Press:
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469647678/the-presidents-kitchen-cabinet/
Likewise published this week was @ShaeVaughnCox’s The Fabric of Civil War Society for @lsupress:
https://lsupress.org/9780807181171/
Another new release this week was Robert M. Owens’ Killing Over Land from @OUPress (h/t @HerbertHistory):
https://www.oupress.com/9780806193625/killing-over-land/
& also published this week was @shosha_lala’s Indebted Mobilities from @UChicagoPress (discount code in the tweet):
https://twitter.com/shosha_lala/status/1761057169531642053?s=20
Out now in paperback is @genezubovich’s Before the Religious Right from UPenn Press:
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812253689/before-the-religious-right/
For a book talk on another recent release, here’s @FrankCogliano at @TJMonticello on his book A Revolutionary Friendship from @Harvard_Press:
Now available for pre-order is @JM_Thompson’s Cold War Country from @UNC_Press (h/t @Amammartinez):
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469678368/cold-war-country/
Also available for pre-order is @ProfMSinha’s long-awaited The Rise & Fall of the Second American Republic from @wwnorton (h/t @CharlesWMcKinn2):
https://twitter.com/CharlesWMcKinn2/status/1760047402596049259?s=20
& also available for pre-order from @wwnorton is @daniel_dsj2110’s edited collection on fascism in America, Did It Happen Here?:
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324074397
Finally in new books, @davon__norris reviewed @SarahMayorga’s Urban Specters from @UNC_Press (h/t @WalterDGreason):
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as usual, including @gvaughnjoy reflecting on 20 editions of her Review Roulette newsletter & previewing the Wedding March Madness bracket:
& speaking of films, a trio of pieces inspired by American Fiction, including my @SatEvePost Considering History column on a #BlackHistoryMonth syllabus of satire:
For the @onthemedia podcast, @XanderManshel talked American Fiction & the cultural role of literary prizes:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/who-cares-about-literary-prizes-on-the-media2
& @DrDionGeorgiou reviewed American Fiction for his Academic Bubble newsletter:
Finally, if you can’t get enough public scholarly goodness (me neither!), check out the latest edition of @DrDionGeorgiou’s Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter:
PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more writing & websites, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below—including, indeed especially, your own! These #ScholarSunday threads are all about y’all, so get in the action & share more recommendations! #twitterstorians