Here it is, my 172nd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcasts episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please share widely, 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 @susan_shain for @highcountrynews on Japanese American bird pins, featuring @BearGuerra’s photos (h/t @gbtking):
https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-4/the-untold-history-of-japanese-american-bird-pins/
@CNZander helped kick off @CivilWarMonitor’s new online scholarship series with a great piece on Lincoln’s imagined West:
https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/lincolns-imagined-west/
Vital essay from @KeriLeighMerrit for @aeonmag on the destructive legacies of planter capitalism in the South:
https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-and-underdevelopment-in-the-american-south
& @1gillianfrank1 is a must-read as ever, this time for @the_revealer on the long history of the phrase “abortion on demand”:
https://therevealer.org/abortion-on-demand/
In honor of Marvin Gaye’s birthday, wonderful piece from @NewBlackMan for @Medium on Gaye’s protest era:
https://medium.com/@tnimixtape/marvins-last-protest-by-mark-anthony-neal-e73dd721bf5b
Important oral history work from @Insurgent_Prof & colleagues for @socprobsjournal on white Southerners’ racial learning:
https://academic.oup.com/socpro/advance-article/doi/10.1093/socpro/spae018/7638428
Speaking of Southern communities, @oliviapaschal interviewed archivist Marc Miller for @facingsouth on his project digitizing the magazine Southern Exposure & more:
https://www.facingsouth.org/2024/04/five-questions-marc-miller
Here’s @AHAhistorians president Thavolia Glymph for #AHAPerspectives on the need to listen to our scholarly subjects & ourselves:
& @lilyjmeyer wrote movingly for @lithub on the language, history, & collective obligations of American Jewishness:
Turning to current events, provocative essay from @lsjamison for @NewYorker on how the clinical concept of gaslighting has become ubiquitous (h/t @pourfairelevide):
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/08/so-you-think-youve-been-gaslit
In honor of Earth Month, @Fisher_DanaR wrote for @ConversationUS to dispel 3 myths about today’s climate activists:
Incredible reporting from @AudreLawdAMercy for Balls & Strikes on an Alabama town that stopped holding election to disenfranchise Black voters:
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/newbern-alabama-stopped-holding-elections/
Turning to the 2024 election, @adamgopnik wrote for @thedailybeast on lessons we can learn from Hitler’s rise to power:
For his @PhillyInquirer column, @Will_Bunch wrote on the right’s politicization of NYPD officer Jonathan Diller’s death:
@bleachbred wrote for his @Medium Polis column on another politicized tragedy, the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse:
Another excellent @johnastoehr election-year thread, this one on the GOP pitting Christians & transgender Americans against each other:
https://www.editorialboard.com/the-republicans-either-or-trap/
& the awesome folks at @BCMBristol wrote for @TeenVogue on the Black Country histories behind Beyoncé’s new album (h/t @RhiannonGiddens):
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/beyonce-album-cowboy-carter-black-country-music-history
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring fellow podcaster extraordinaire @MichaelCullina2 on Alice Roosevelt Longworth:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/alice-roosevelt-longworth/
Speaking of Gilded Age women, the new Gilded Gentleman episode features @ElizabethLBlock on the unseen story of their undergarments:
For @socannex, host @danielrmorrison interviewed @joshshepperd on his new book on the origins of public broadcasting:
https://socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/public-broadcasting-with-josh-shepperd/
The latest episode of the great @realfreedompod features @taraemcg of @couriernewsroom on how values-based journalism can counter disinformation:
Episode 11 of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod features @another_idea on hunger & starvation in the ghettos:
For his latest episode, @InkedHistorian interviewed @CNZander on her new book from @lsupress on Civil War antimilitarism:
& for the new episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast, @tlecaque @greenleejw & @annawaymack talked A Knight’s Tale & Medieval representations:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1775876725244625240?s=20
More great work for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @kgmkenny of @IEHS1965 on how Texas is trying to change who makes immigration law:
https://time.com/6962871/texas-federal-immigration-law-history/
@IsmarVolic wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on how the history of gerrymandering might help offer a solution to this chronic issue:
Here’s @StephanieTern for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the history of the GOP’s electoral entrenchment in the Rust Belt:
& finally for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s @bjschulm on why the Biden-Trump rematch might the end of an electoral era:
Lots of great work this week as well for @BlkPerspectives, including @tiffanypennamon on the groundbreaking 1990s film Black Is…Black Ain’t:
https://www.aaihs.org/black-is-black-aint-unnatural-by-whose-standard/
Menika Dirkson wrote for @BlkPerspectives on the tragic 1958 murder of Howard University student Gloria Adelaide Jordan:
https://www.aaihs.org/requiem-for-a-howard-university-student/
Here’s M. Keith Claybrook Jr. for @BlkPerspectives on recent book on the scholarly tradition of African Deep Thought:
https://www.aaihs.org/african-deep-thought/
& finally for @BlkPerspectives, @lucien_baskin interviewed three of the participants in a recent @SchomburgCBFS event on “Food, Life, & Leisure”:
https://www.aaihs.org/food-life-and-leisure-a-cbfs-interview/
Lots of important new books out this week, including @piperhuguley’s long-awaited historical novel American Daughters from @HarperCollins:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/american-daughters-piper-huguley
Also out this week is @rompenni’s Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media from @iupress:
https://iupress.org/9780253069375/pop-islam/
Likewise published this week is @NeilJYoung17’s Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right for @UChicagoPress:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo212887554.html
Two great new publications from @UNC_Press this week, including @mfkantor’s DARE to Say No: Policing & the War on Drugs in Schools:
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679044/dare-to-say-no/
Also out now from @UNC_Press is @JM_Thompson’s Cold War Country: How Nashville’s Music Row & the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism (h/t @CharlesLHughes2):
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469678368/cold-war-country/
Finally in new releases, make sure to check out @HilaryGreen77 & Andrew Slap’s vital new edited collection The Civil War & the Summer of 2020 from @FordhamPress:
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531505011/the-civil-war-and-the-summer-of-2020/
Speaking of important new publications, all month @IllinoisPress is offering a free e-book of @soniahistoria’s For a Just & Better World:
https://twitter.com/IllinoisPress/status/1774805223334170693?s=20
Now available for pre-order is @sayburgin’s Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit from @NYUpress:
https://nyupress.org/9781479814145/organizing-your-own/
& also now available for pre-order is @DavidAstinWalsh’s Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement & the Far Right from @yalepress:
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300260977/taking-america-back/
For @PublicBooks, @mguariglia interviewed @EmilyMBrooksPhD on her new book from @UNC_Press on WWII-era surveillance & discrimination:
& for part two of that interview for @GothamCenter, @EmilyBrooksPhD interviewed @mguariglia on his new book on the NYPD from @DukePress:
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/guariglia-police-empire-city-interview-5x8xf
For @lithub, @SarahViren interviewed @emilyraboteau on her new book on birding, climate change, & social justice from @MacmillanUSA:
For @theartsfuse, @blakeSmaddux interviewed @ProfStevenHahn on his new book Illiberal America from @wwnorton:
& I loved reading @melnickjeffrey1’s thoughtful review for @AAUP’s Academe of my @Fitchburg_State colleague @katisjewell’s new book from @UNC_Press:
https://www.aaup.org/article/college-radio-canary-coal-mine
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as ever, including @mervatim for @nybooks on Anatomy of a Fall:
For more great film analysis, check out @DrDionGeorgiou for his Academic Bubble newsletter on Drive-Away Dolls:
& for her Review Roulette newsletter, our best current FilmStudier @gvaughnjoy wrapped up the Wedding March Madness bracket with some thoughts on the winner The Princess Bride:
Excited to welcome a new @SatEvePost columnist colleague, @jonathandarman, with this piece on how FDR’s struggle with polio shaped him:
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/04/the-making-of-fdr/
& I’m particularly proud of my latest @SatEvePost Considering History column, on how a stunning museum exhibition can help us remember the vital intersection of empathy & education:
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, & have a great day, all! #twitterstorians