No foolin’, it’s really my 171st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. I pity the April Fool who doesn’t share this thread, as well as adding more work below! #twitterstorians
First, a reminder that I’m now also sharing these threads on my newsletter:
Gonna start with a few more great pieces for #WomensHistoryMonth, including @GALLIFRAEAN for @USNHistory on women in the 1970s Navy:
@SilasLapham, director of @LES_Center, wrote for his blog on the importance of Smith’s Killers of the Dream on its 75th anniversary:
& here’s @EllenWexler for @smithsonianmag on the true histories behind @Netflix’s Shirley, featuring Anastasia C. Curwood’s book from @UNC_Press:
Turning to other great public scholarly writing from the week, @dstfelix wrote for @NewYorker on the public memorial projects of @eji_org’s Bryan Stevenson (h/t @SashaPanaram):
I really enjoyed Kevin Levin’s latest newsletter entry, on what he’s learned for his Robert Gould Shaw bio from Shaw’s best friend:
Great essay from Katherine Hobbs for @publicbooks on the fight to preseve the past at Glendale, California’s Doctors House:
Also for @publicbooks, vital work from @ARoseCasey on defending the humanities & the human from attacks on #HigherEd (h/t @seeshespeak):
https://www.publicbooks.org/in-defense-of-imagination/
& here’s @Erika_D_Smith for @latimes on why the push to return stolen land might offer a more attainable form of reparations:
Turning to current events, @newrepublic shared an excerpt from @jbwashing’s new book The Case for Open Borders from @haymarketbooks:
https://newrepublic.com/article/179320/immigration-journalist-makes-case-open-borders
Speaking of current immigration debates, @bhatiap wrote for @lrb on Haiti, Haitian Americans, and the hypocrisy of US deportations:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/pooja-bhatia/diary
& you won’t read a more moving immigration story this year than @Will_Bunch for @PhillyInquirer on the immigrant workers killed in Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapse (gift article):
For another crucial model of empathy, check out @thrasherxy’s @lithub interview with the lead writer of the @GazaMartyrs social media project:
While @rickperlstein wrote for his @TheProspect column on Trump’s repetition of longstanding xenophobic myths (h/t @kristinashull whose work is included in the piece):
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-03-27-swamp-inside-mind-donald-trump/
Here’s @bleachbred for his @Medium The Polis column on attacks on Kamala Harris & the intersections of race & gender:
& speaking of the presidential campaign, another excellent @johnastoehr thread, this one on what the backlash against Dobbs might produce in our Constitutional order:
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring Shannon McKenna Schmidt on Eleanor Roosevelt in the WWII Pacific:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/eleanor-roosevelt/
Episode 43 of @draftingthepast has dropped, featuring @margaretomara on her new book The Code: Silicon Valley & the Remaking of America:
https://draftingthepast.com/podcast-episodes/episode-43-margaret-omara-starts-with-the-people/
For the final episode of Our New South S1, @ProfBlackistone & @robgreeneII talked environmental justice with Dominique Burkhardt of @Earthjustice & Roo George-Warren of @officialcatawba:
https://megaphone.link/NEXCP2760038543
For the @UMassBoston Trotter Center’s Black in Boston & Beyond, @DrHettie2017 interviewed Makeda Best on a new @bostonatheneum exhibit on abolitionism:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2220518
Here’s Episode 10 of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod, featuring writer John Orloff & actor @maccageezer from Band of Brothers:
https://twitter.com/HolocaustPod/status/1772229896627982342?s=20
@CitronRodger of the @TouroLawCenter’s podcast interviewed @robertltsai about his new book @DTheImpossible:
For episode 134 of @EndOfSportPod, host @nkalamb interviewed @raewynconnell on masculinities & sports:
https://theendofsport.podbean.com/e/episode-134-masculinities-and-sport-with-raewyn-connell/
For his Close Readings podcast, @kjavadizadeh talked with @EmilyRCWilson about Sappho’s “Ode to Aphrodite”:
Check out the first episode of @isaac_campos’ new History on Drugs podcast, featuring James Bradford on opium, Afghanistan, & the historian’s craft:
The new episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast is a particularly timely one, with @melnickjeffrey1 & @erikmbaker talking Munich:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1773327895865221554?s=20
& speaking of @erikmbaker, he wrote for @NewStatesman on the limits of current narratives about the possibility of nuclear war:
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/03/slave-to-the-bomb
More great work for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @LGeismer on what history can teach us about new approaches to affordable housing:
https://time.com/6900050/public-housing-biden-plan-history/
Here are @JulioCapoJr & Tawny Petillo for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the 1950s burlesque dancer who challenged anti-LGBTQ bigotry:
Laura Brodie wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on how Civil War history can help challenge Trump’s martyr complex:
& here’s Nicholas DiPucchio for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on an early 19th century pro-Russia conspiracy theory that almost convinced New Englanders to secede:
Lots more great work this week for the @BlKPerspectives Forum on The Books, Archives, & Monuments that Shaped Me, including @Heruk55 on Northern journalism promoting the Lost Cause:
https://www.aaihs.org/northern-journalism-in-the-promotion-of-the-lost-cause/
For her contribution to the @BlKPerspectives Forum, Sabrina G. Watson used @LibraryofVA resources to highlight free Blacks in Accomack County:
https://www.aaihs.org/free-blacks-in-accomack-county-during-the-antebellum-period/
While James R. Morgan III wrote for the @BlKPerspectives Forum on the “Divine Nine” & the formation of Black Studies:
https://www.aaihs.org/the-divine-nine-and-the-formation-of-black-studies/
& here’s Daphne Calhoun for the @BlKPerspectives Forum on the multilayered harmfulness of Alabama’s Black Codes:
https://www.aaihs.org/the-harmfulness-of-black-codes-in-the-state-of-alabama/
Lots of important new books out this week, including @ProfMSinha’s The Rise & Fall of the 2nd American Republic from @wwnorton:
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631498442
& make sure to check out this recording of @ProfMSinha’s book launch event at @AmAntiquarian:
Also out this week is @RonnieGrinberg’s Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity & the New York Intellectuals from @PrincetonUPress:
Likewise published this week is @profdgd’s We, Us, & Them: Affect & Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump from @uvapress:
https://upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
& one more monograph out this week, Adrienne Brown’s The Residential is Racial from @stanfordpress (h/t @JMCoghlan):
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32189
Two new edited collections this week as well, including @DavidMacMarqui1 & @moira_marquis’ Books through Bars from @UGAPress (h/t @KeriLeighMerrit):
https://twitter.com/KeriLeighMerrit/status/1772592517260759358?s=20
& also check out @mannahattamamma & @cpatell’s new edited collection American Fiction since 1940 from @oxunipress:
https://twitter.com/mannahattamamma/status/1772710074634350967?s=20
@JasonAHiggins’ vital new book Prisoners after War from @umasspress is now available in an open-access edition:
https://uplopen.com/books/m/356
& here’s a recent publication I missed, @kjuanitabrown’s Mortevivium: Photography & the Politics of the Visual from @mitpress (h/t @RobinMBernstein):
https://faculty.dartmouth.edu/artsandsciences/news/2024/03/probing-photographys-anti-black-history
Now available for pre-order is @K_Marino1’s Votes for College Women from @NYUpress:
https://nyupress.org/9781479825196/votes-for-college-women/
For @NewBooksAfroAm, @MickellCarter talked with @DrFHamlin & @CharlesWMcKinn2 on their new book From Rights to Lives from @VanderbiltUP:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/from-rights-to-lives
Here’s @TobarWriter for @nybooks on @JonathanBlitzer’s new book Everyone Who is Gone is Here from @Penguin_Press:
For @Guardian, @ahannahseo profiled Mimi Khúc & her new book on health & unwellness from @DukePress:
& the excellent reviews of Percival Everett’s James continued this week with the incomparable @MEASeybold for @clereviewbooks (h/t @_ryanruby_):
https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/percival-everett-james
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week, including Melina Moe for @LAReviewOfBooks on Toni Morrison’s editorial rejection letters (h/t @dan_sinykin):
Phenomenal long-form essay from @blgtylr for @LRB on reading through Zola’s 26-book cycle (h/t @pourfairelevide):
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/brandon-taylor/is-it-even-good
Speaking of @blgttylr, he’s on @priscillagilman’s list of her favorite campus novels for @JoinTertulia, also featuring @elifbatuman @csittenfeld @jameslasdun & many more:
https://tertulia.com/list/my-favorite-campus-novels-priscilla-gilman
& for this week’s installment of her Review Roulette newsletter, @gvaughnjoy went with a crowd-sourced post on her ongoing Wedding March Madness tournament:
Finally, here’s my latest @SatEvePost Considering History column, a #WomensHistoryMonth tribute to 5 groundbreaking Black chefs from across our history:
Looking for more public scholarly goodness? Aren’t we all, & you can find it in @DrDionGeorgiou’s latest Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter:
PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more public scholarly writing & work, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & happy Easter to all who celebrate! #twitterstorians
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