Maybe it’s the Luck of the Irish, ‘cause despite my being on a college visit with my son, y’all are still getting my 169th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the week. Share more below & enjoy! #twitterstorians
[One prefatory note: Posting a few minutes early before we’re out & traveling all day, so I’m gonna rely even more than usual on y’all sharing the thread to help spread the word on all this good work. Thanks in advance!]
First, a reminder that I’m now also sharing these threads on my newsletter:
Starting with a few favorites from the week as usual, including @lydia_moland’s moving essay for @TheAmScho on war, settlement, & collective responsibility:
https://theamericanscholar.org/sins-of-the-fathers-and-mothers/#disqus_thread
@wihorne’s newsletter is always a must-read, but I particularly value this review essay on @HC_Richardson’s Democracy Awakening & our current moment:
Great stuff from @nhannahjones for @NYTmag on how “colorblindness” is being used to dismantle affirmative action & civil rights:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/magazine/civil-rights-affirmative-action-colorblind.html
& I absolutely loved @lithub’s excerpt from @thommyorange’s Foreword to a new edition of one of my favorite American novels, Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony:
https://lithub.com/a-rare-sacred-novel-tommy-orange-on-the-genius-of-leslie-marmon-silkos-ceremony/
Turning to other great public scholarly writing from the week, here’s Claudia Laroye for @SatEvePost on Colorado’s Rollins Pass:
Fascinating archival research from @UCBHistory student Tor Haugan on LGBTQ+ Japanese Americans during WWII incarceration (h/t @hidehirota):
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/erased
Speaking of Asian American histories, here’s H.M.A. Leow for @JSTOR_Daily on the activist 1970s folk band A Grain of Sand:
Vital work from Livia Arndal Woods for @nursingclio on precarity & pregnancy in the Victoria novel & era (h/t @sarahbelle721):
https://nursingclio.org/2024/03/13/precarity-and-pregnancy/
@chris_w_shaw wrote for @processhistory on the history of the American public’s role in financial regulation (h/t @The_OAH):
& for #WomensHistoryMonth, check out this @archvesfdn profile of @TheOtherRBG’s research during her time as a 2023 Cokie Roberts Women’s History Fellow:
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/cokie-roberts-fellow-graham
Turning to current events, here’s @BretDevereaux for @ForeignPolicy on why the crisis in history education is a national security problem (h/t @formtheuturtle):
@bleachbred wrote for his @Medium Polis column on Biden’s State of the Union & the future of American democracy:
Another of @johnastoehr’s vital presidential election campaign threads, this one on why we need to be talking much more about Trump’s sadism:
https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/1767520957537599607?s=20
& @Will_Bunch’s coverage of the campaign for @PhillyInquirer is always a must-read, including his latest column on the genuine dangers of a second Trump term:
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/trump-47-second-term-dangers-authoritarianism-20240314.html
Finally, check out this @democracynow interview with Michelle Alexander on Gaza, MLK, & what gives her hope (h/t @lesliemalex):
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/13/michelle_alexander_revolutionary_love
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @econroykrutz on missionaries & diplomacy:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/missionaries/
Check out episode 42 of @draftingthepast, featuring Kimberly Harper on her new book from @uarkpress & much more:
Episode 4 of @metmuseum’s Harlem is Everywhere, hosted by @lynne_bias, focused on music & nightlife:
For Our New South, @ProfBlackistone & @robgreeneII talked education & equality with @BobbyScott @AG4MeckCounty & @Ngongang:
For @PublicBooks’ Public Thinker, @brdemuth interviewed @gnrosenberg on industrial agriculture’s “brutal, violent heteronormativity”:
Episode 8 of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod features @karenrbartlett on Topf & Sons, the family who engineered the Holocaust:
The latest episode of @kjavadizadeh’s wonderful Close Readings features Robert Volpicelli on Auden’s “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”:
Two episodes of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast this week, including @DrSarahMyers @ColinColbourn & @LukeTruxal on Masters of the Air Episode 8:
& @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast also featured the great Karen Cox on Smokey & the Bandit & Southern stories:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1767929614746194048?s=20
Finally, just in time for #StPatricksDay, @buzzkillprof featured @DrMaryBurke on Irish Americans, race, & politics:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/irish-america-race-and-politics--59014879
A handful of great columns for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including another #StPatricksDay piece, this one from @DGannon2016:
@joscottcoe wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on intimate partner violence & mass shootings:
Also for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s @tessmegginson on how Canada’s far-right is becoming more extreme:
Here’s Daniel Olson for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on how multilingualism & the pushback against it are both American traditions:
Finally for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, Anna Danziger Halperin & Jeanne Gutierrez wrote on how “women’s work” has always powered the economy:
Couple great new columns for @BlkPerspectives this week as well, including @mings_ga on Atlanta’s Black libraries & the push for Black voters:
https://www.aaihs.org/atlantas-black-libraries-and-the-push-for-black-voters/
& here’s Yasmine Guy for @BlkPerspectives on what we can learn from a new @metmuseum exhibition on Egyptian funerary cones:
https://www.aaihs.org/new-kingdom-egyptian-funerary-cones/
Speaking of @BlkPerspectives, I’m really excited for the new @AAIHS journal Global Black Thought, published by UPenn Press & edited by @KeishaBlain:
https://www.aaihs.org/global-black-thought-a-new-academic-journal/
& speaking of vital new scholarly publications, @WalterDGreason & @Dieselfunk’s Graphic History of Hip Hop is now available:
https://graphichistoryofhiphop.com/
Likewise out this week is @robertltsai’s Demand the Impossible from @wwnorton:
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393867831
Also now available is @AlinskyLives’ Saul Alinsky & the Dilemmas of Race from @UChicagoPress:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo194348281.html
@Betzy_Cazden shares another recent publication, @ProfTriciaRose’s Metaracism from @HachetteUS:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tricia-rose/metaracism/9781541602717/?lens=basic-books
Thanks to @shapirostephen for sharing his recently published co-edited collection Tracking Capital from @SUNYPress:
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Tracking-Capital
& thanks to @PracticalPeace for sharing her newly published memoir Surrender: My Journey from Guerrilla to Grandmother:
https://www.amazon.com/Surrender-My-Journey-Guerrilla-Grandmother/dp/B0CK4641GD
Now available for pre-order is @sea_fan’s Asian American Fiction After 1965 from @ColumbiaUP (with a discount code below):
https://twitter.com/sea_fan/status/1768062729263423892?s=20
Also available to pre-order is @piperhuguley’s American Daughters from @HarperCollins:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/american-daughters-piper-huguley
Forthcoming as well is @JohnRLundberg1’s The Texas Lowcountry from @TAMUPress (h/t @PhDRachel):
https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648431753/the-texas-lowcountry/
& one more forthcoming book, Marc Fasteau & Ian Fletcher’s Industrial Policy for the United States from @CambridgeCore (h/t @press4change):
For another recent publication, check out @nmpenn’s review in @americanpurpose of @jamesamarcus’ book from @PrincetonUPress (h/t @MythSerene):
https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/glad-to-the-brink-of-fear/
Also check out @AgeofRevs’ interview with @NathanPR1 on his book from @BasicBooks:
While @brendanchambe19 interviewed @dan_sinykin for @The_Millions on his recent book & academic twitter (h/t @S_DeGooyer):
https://themillions.com/2024/03/dan-sinykin-on-fiction-scholarship-and-academic-twitter.html
& for a review of an older but still vital book, check out @DrHettie2017 for @AmHistReview on Marion Thompson Wright’s groundbreaking social history (h/t @DrSepinwall):
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week, including @gvaughnjoy’s latest Review Roulette newsletter, using The Wedding Singer to make an impassioned plea for more thoughtful criticism:
Great essay from @JustJokes247 for @thedrift_mag on our historical fiction hang-ups (featuring @XanderManshel’s recent book on the genre):
https://www.thedriftmag.com/past-tense/
Finally, I loved this @myHNN feature on @LaurenMarkham’s work & recommendations for further reading on borders:
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/borders-of-the-past-present-and-future
& if you need more public scholarly goodness to go with your green beer, check out @DrDionGeorgiou’s latest Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter:
PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as usual, so please share more writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & may all your clovers be four-leafed, my friends! #twitterstorians