Excited to share my 170th #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:
Starting with a few favorites from the week as usual, including @DavidMFriend1 for @VanityFair on a new exhibition of the great Gordon Parks (h/t @Reighangillam):
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/gordon-parks-new-exhibition-captures-a-quiet-fortitude
Rhea Nayyar wrote for @hyperallergic on another new exhibition, on the influential Black librarian Belle da Costa Greene (h/t @scandalwomen):
Here’s Ramona Harper for @AmericanTheatre on @DrLisaBThompson’s new play The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body:
& @BethFolsom4 wrote for @CambridgeDay on changing attitudes towards women’s sexual health in late 19C Cambridge & America:
Great piece from my @SatEvePost column @newestwords on Mercy Otis Warren, America’s first published female historian:
Turning to more current events, here’s @dan_sinykin for @thebafflermag on a trend toward the gigification of the publishing industry:
https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-gigification-of-publishing-sinykin
Speaking of fraught advances we need to grapple with, here’s @WalterDGreason on AI open educational resources:
Check out this excerpt in @thenation of @daniel_dsj2110’s edited collection from @wwnorton on fascism in America:
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/fascism-debate/
Also for @thenation, @JuanIMora5 reviewed Christian Paiz book on labor organizing in Coachella from @UNC_Press:
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/coachella-united-farm-workers/
Bracing & vital essay from @ce_tracey for @nybooks on an Arizona border checkpoint (translated from the original Spanish article for @nexosmexico):
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/23/checkpoint-dreams-arizona-border/
Speaking of the border & immigration, I loved this thread on historical contexts from @IEHS1965 president @kgmkenny:
https://twitter.com/kgmkenny/status/1770429982780620970?s=20
& I created my own thread on immigration histories & laws this week:
https://twitter.com/AmericanStudier/status/1770195776389419341?s=20
@bleachbred wrote for his @Medium Polis column on Meghan Markle, Kate Middleton, & white supremacist double standards:
@Will_Bunch for @PhillyInquirer is a must-read as always, this time on Trump’s direct echoes of Nazi Germany:
For more vital 2024 election coverage, here’s another of @johnastoehr’s excellent columns, this one on Trump & conservative elites:
https://www.editorialboard.com/conservative-elites-cant-control-trump-now-theyre-bailing/
& for a ton of provocative takes on our current moment, check out the new @HammerandHope special issue on Gaza:
https://hammerandhope.org/article/palestine-gaza-racism
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History feauring @DianaParsell on influential journalist Eliza Scidmore:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/eliza-scidmore/
For the latest episode of Our New South, @ProfBlackistone & @robgreeneII talked with @ClaytonTrutor & many others about business & sports in Southern cities:
Great conversation between @AdamLaats & Chuck Dorn for @throughlineNPR on a mid-20th century textbook war:
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/21/1198908644/the-great-textbook-war
Speaking of, @danielrmorrison of @socannex interviewed @victorerikray on the debates over critical race theory:
https://socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/victor-ray-on-critical-race-theory/
The 5th & final episode of @metmuseum’s Harlem is Everywhere, hosted by @lynne_bias, focuses on art as activism:
https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2024/03/harlem-is-everywhere-art-as-activism
The very timely 9th episode of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod features Laurie Marhoefer on the persecution of trans & gay communities:
For @EndofSportPod, host @nkalamb talked with @PatBlanchfield about the intersections between gunpowder & sports:
https://theendofsport.podbean.com/e/ep-133-gunpower-and-sports-with-patrick-blanchfield/
The new episode of @PsychArmor features @JasonAHiggins on his new book & veterans in the criminal justice system:
https://psycharmor.org/podcast/jason-higgins
For @LES_Center, @SilasLapham talked all things Lillian Smith with @applebaum_dr @KeriLeighMerrit & @myersparkpastor:
A great new episode of @thisistheheff’s @AmericanStudies features @ThomasRuysSmith & @catbateson on “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”:
https://podfollow.com/1690975615/episode/acdcab343d78450cd3f2a0fd41f01377be7084aa/view
Two new episodes of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast this week, including @DrSarahMyers @ColinColbourn & @LukeTruxal on Masters of the Air’s finale:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1769726356621844744?s=20
Also for @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast, Christina Abreu stopped by to talk The Mambo Kings & Cuban Americans:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1770801476153024932?s=20
Finally, check out the recording of @jbf1755 & @FrankCogliano talking Hamilton & Jefferson for @Miller_Center:
More great work for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including Ashley Craig & @gregorysmithers on the 100th anniversary of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act:
Also for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s @bjrottinghaus on how the GOP has shifted on immigration & border issues:
@alliegracerob wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the surprising but telling historical origins of the “welfare queen” stereotype:
& finally for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s B.S. Rabinowitz on the resurgence of defensive nationalism:
Another great @BlkPerspectives Forum is ongoing, this one on the books, archives, & monuments that shaped scholars & kicked off by editor @kianamknight:
https://www.aaihs.org/my-journey-to-becoming-a-historian-of-black-womens-activism/
@McclintonOg wrote for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on the dichotomy of enslaved women’s work in the antebellum South:
https://www.aaihs.org/the-dichotomy-of-enslaved-womens-work-in-the-antebellum-south/
Here’s Alexis Cathcart for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on one Black woman’s story of sacrifice & survival in 1860s Alabama:
https://www.aaihs.org/a-black-womans-story-of-sacrifice-and-survival/
& Anthony Smooth continued the @BlkPerspectives Forum on all the histories & challenges that Baltimore exemplifies:
https://www.aaihs.org/the-problem-with-baltimore/
Lots of important new books published this week, including @rkdcolby86’s An Unholy Traffic from @OUPHistory:
Also out this week is @CastroHistorian’s Only a Few Blocks to Cuba from Penn Press:
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825725/only-a-few-blocks-to-cuba/
Likewise published this week was Kemeshia Randle Swanson’s Maverick Feminist from @upmiss:
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/M/Maverick-Feminist
& one more new scholarly book out this week, @rompenni’s Pop Islam from @iupress:
https://twitter.com/rompenni/status/1770574623177937140?s=20
For @TheDailyBeast, here’s an excerpt from @nkalamb & @Derekcrim’s forthcoming book The End of College Football from @UNC_Press:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pay-for-play-is-the-only-way-to-end-college-sports-exploitation
For @PublicBooks, @KeishaBlain interviewed @CountessCanuck about her recent book The Vice President’s Black Wife from @UNC_Press:
Also for @PublicBooks, Madeline Zehnder reviewed @LaraLangerCohen recently published Going Underground from @DukePress:
For @TheTLS, @HarveyYoungBU reviewed a pair of important new books on Black women from @imaniperry & @c_thorsson:
& here are two of the many great reviews of Percival Everett’s important new novel James, including @BellCV for @NPR:
& @jarvisdeberry reviewed James for @MSNBC (h/t @ProfKori):
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/-percival-everett-james-book-huckleberry-finn-rcna143890
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as ever, including @TheValorieClark for @lithub on Aphra Behn (h/t @ShernaKhambatta):
https://lithub.com/writer-woman-playwright-spy-how-espionage-influenced-aphra-behns-writing/
Here’s @wyp100 for @IGN on professor @ToreCarlOlsson’s classes on video games & American history:
For the latest installment of her great Review Roulette newsletter, @gvaughnjoy used the atrocious Irish Wish to think about the conservatism of holiday romcoms:
& finally, here’s an important essay from @DrDionGeorgiou & Matilda Fitzmaurice for the UCU Commons newsletter on academic freedom:
Speaking of @DrDionGeorgiou, if you need more great public scholarly content, make sure to check out this 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 below (including your own!). Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & be well, all! #twitterstorians