To help March come in like a lion, here’s my 168th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians
First, a reminder that I’m now also sharing these threads on my newsletter:
Lots more great content for the last week of #BlackHistoryMonth, including @KeishaBlain for @MSNBC on Fannie Lou Hamer:
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fannie-lou-hamer-civil-rights-black-women-rcna139777
Speaking of @MSNBC, here’s @zaharahill for @thereidout on why we still have to much better remember Claudette Colvin’s activism:
& also for @thereidout, check out this interview with the great @loumoore12 on Patrick Mahomes & Black quarterbacks:
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/patrick-mahomes-black-quarterback-syndrome-rcna140044
Great reporting from @greezbock for @aledlab on the inspiring educator Lauren Smith (h/t @biblio_vijay):
Joshua Kagavi wrote for @SmithsonianMag on how a song reunited two women separated by the slave trade (h/t @drturpin):
Excellent review essay from @drjelks for @TCRWUSTL on class, race, & urban Black communities (h/t @DukeAAAS):
Speaking of urban histories, here’s @zachmortice for @business on the landmarking work of @loyolahistdept students (h/t @MicNick11):
Wonderful piece from my @SatEvePost colleague Jennie Knuppel on the groundbreaking Black filmmaker Maria P. Williams:
@LiviaGershon wrote for @JSTOR_Daily on historian Sarah L.H. Gronningsater’s work on antebellum suppression of the Black vote:
While @jonquilynhill interviewed @uche_blackstock for @voxdotcom on the health challenges facing Black women: s
https://www.vox.com/the-weeds/24079547/weathering-black-health-outcomes-women-dr-uche-blackstock
& here’s Jason Ludwig for @PublicBooks on how it’s politics, not technology, that can save Black jobs from AI:
Turning to other great public scholarly writing from the week, @plotznik also wrote for @PublicBooks, on the legendary Ursula Le Guin:
Here’s Gary S. Cross for @myHNN on his forthcoming book & researching & reframing the histories & meanings of free time:
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/185928
While @EmmanuelMehr finished his three-part @BaltimoreHist series on the building of the city’s Inner Harbor:
Turning to current events, here’s sports historian Diane Williams for @ConversationUS on a league that Caitlin Clark’s record can help us remember (h/t @toates):
Vital work from @jenmercieca for @ThePublicSquare on how propaganda has trapped us in a 21C version of Plato’s Cave:
https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/02/26/21st-century-truth-america-platos-cave/ideas/essay/
Equally vital reporting from @zoectjones for @RollingStone on the tragic & horrific murder of Nex Benedict:
Thoughtful & thorough work from @melnickjeffrey1 for @guardian on the fraught histories of Black-Jewish alliances:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/black-jewish-alliance-myth-history
Bracing & moving essay from @erikmbaker for @nplusonemag on the history of self-immolation as political protest:
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/burnt-offerings/
@bleachbred wrote for his @Medium Polis column on Donald Trump, Black conservatives, & white supremacy:
https://medium.com/the-polis/donald-trump-ad18197fdbc1
While @johnastoehr offered another important presidential election thread, this time on Trump & Russia:
https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/1762858256915931192?s=20
Gonna end this section with an inspiring story, a profile of my former student @RobDGosselin’s brother, Genesee Community College Professor Michael Gosselin:
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @eddafieldsblack on the Combahee River raid:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/combahee-river-raid/
Episode 141 of @draftingthepast has dropped, featuring Nathan Perl-Rosenthal on his new book The Age of Revolutions & more:
https://draftingthepast.com/podcast-episodes/episode-41-nathan-perl-rosenthal-doesnt-want-to-let-go/
For episode 2 of @metmuseum’s Harlem is Everywhere, host @lynne_bias interviewed Bridget R. Cooks & @RobinGivhan on portraiture & fashion:
While episode 6 of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod features Caroline Sturdy-Colls on Holocaust archaeology:
https://thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/14561018-ep-6-holocaust-archaeology-with-caroline-sturdy-colls
Speaking of Holocaust histories, the latest @axelbankhistory features @HistProfDad on his new book on Eisenhower & the Holocaust:
For episode 125 of @EndofSportPod, host @nkalamb was joined by @AsheeshKSi & Joe Darda to talk all things higher ed in crisis:
To help us get ready for the Academy Awards, @thisistheheff’s @AmericanStudies podcast featured @gvaughnjoy on Oscar histories & trends:
https://podfollow.com/1690975615/episode/015788a34ca075e6190f0034f139cf69fcdb4493/view
Two new episodes of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM this week, including @DrSarahMyers @LukeTruxal & @ColinColbourn on Masters of the Air:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1762124221663068531?s=20
& @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast this week also featured @mguariglia on Minority Report & policing histories:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1763204816556150926?s=20
Finally, check out a recording of the @IEHS1965 & @UMN_IHRC webinar on the 1924 Immigration Act, featuring @adamsigoodman @AshleyJBavery & more:
More good work for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @dclindey on a Supreme Court case that bolstered conservative education:
Also for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s @kchurchie on a 12th century library thief who foreshadowed hackers:
While Anika Nayak wrote for TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the histories behind our current shortage of Black midwives:
& finally for TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s Adam Clulow on why he’s excited about the new adaptation of Shogun:
Before we leave #BlackHistoryMonth, make sure to check out @Crutch4 for @BlkPerspectives on Mary Church Terrell’s influence on its commemorations:
Lots of important new books dropped this week, including @eddafieldsblack’s long-awaited Combee from @OUPHistory:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/combee-9780197552797
Speaking of long-awaited publications, @lheltonian’s Scattered & Fugitive Things is now out from @ColumbiaUP (h/t @PhilipLeventhal):
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugitive-things/9780231559546
Likewise published this week was @JasonAHiggins’ Prisoners After War from @umasspress (for 20% off, use discount code UMASS20):
https://www.umasspress.com/9781625347534/prisoners-after-war/
Also available now is @mrfolse1’s The Globe & Anchor Men from @Kansas_Press:
https://twitter.com/mrfolse1/status/1761829292344844600?s=20
& newly published as well is @jimdowns1’s edited collection January 6 & the Politics of History from @UGAPress (h/t @jbf1755 who is featured in it):
https://twitter.com/UGAPress/status/1763551511622377795?s=20
Now available for pre-order & sure to be vital for all us teachers is @cjdenial’s A Pedagogy of Kindness from @OUPress:
https://www.oupress.com/9780806193854/a-pedagogy-of-kindness/
Sandhya Shukla was interviewed for the @ColumbiaUP blog about the new book Cross-Cultural Harlem (h/t @PhilipLeventhal):
https://cupblog.org/2024/02/26/sandhya-shukla-on-cross-cultural-harlem-reimagining-race-and-place/
Two reviews to share this week, including @GeoffPMann in @LRB on @drewmckevitt’s Gun Country from @UNC_Press:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/geoff-mann/give-your-mom-a-gun
While Jordan Chloë Jackson & Megan Geigner wrote for @Ideas_History on @DrMikeAmezcua’s Making Mexican Chicago:
Gonna end with a bunch more favorites from the week as usual, including @tdouble_u’s moving essay on Audre Lorde & grief:
Here’s @TomDohertyFilm for @THR on the influential & evolving Hollywood histories of Paramount Pictures:
Speaking of Hollywood historians, for the latest installment of @gvaughnjoy’s Review Roulette she wrote about the problematic politics of Baby Boom:
I’m very happy to welcome the awesome @joshua_r_eyler as a @SatEvePost colleague with his first column, on the origins of grading:
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/02/the-origin-of-grades-in-american-schools/
& for my latest @SatEvePost Considering History column I wrote about the newest National Park & how National Historic Sites can help us grapple with our hardest histories:
Finally, if you need more great public scholarship, make sure to check out @DrDionGeorgiou’s latest Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter:
PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more writing & work, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & here’s to a great March, all! #twitterstorians