İFeliz Cinco de Mayo! No better way to celebrate than with my 176th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share widely, add more below, & enjoy, mi gente! #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 @NadegeGreen for @MiamiHerald on a forgotten Langston Hughes poem about Black voting (h/t @ProenzaColes):
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article287968280.html
Bracing & powerful essay from @bhatiap for @nybooks on how the US & others have brought Haiti to its current chaotic state:
Great piece from @jonrvh47 for @LAReviewofBooks on the dream of an Asian American Hollywood studio, featuring @IAMDENISEKHOR’s Transpacific Convergences from @UNC_Press:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-nacirema-dream-the-story-of-an-asian-american-studio/
& here’s @SilasLapham for @BitterSouth on how Frank Yerby & Lillian Smith challenged myths of whiteness (h/t @LES_Center):
Turning to other excellent public scholarly writing from the week, check out @earlymodjustice’s thread on the misleading use of a Ben Franklin quote at the Supreme Court (h/t @HC_Richardson):
https://twitter.com/earlymodjustice/status/1784656276498141222
New open-access article from @moregreyham for @NauticalHistory on cod & piracy in the early 17th century North Atlantic:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00253359.2024.2331917
Also open-access is @oliviacpaschal’s article for the new Journal of Ozarks Studies on the print culture of the 1980s Ozarks’ Women’s Movement:
https://www.ozarks-studies-assoc.com/general-5
Unique & compelling essay from James M. Greene for @CommonplaceJrnl on what early 19C author Charles Brockden Brown can teach us about AI (h/t @CaitlinLeeKelly):
https://commonplace.online/article/how-can-charles-brockden-brown-help-us/
& thoughtful & important work from @RichardPCondon for @CivilWarMonitor on how we define & produce public history:
https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/what-is-public-history/
Turning to current events, lots more vital work this week on the campus protests, including Robin D.G. Kelley’s open letter to Columbia’s President in the @BostonReview:
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/letter-to-columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik/
@prof_gabriele & David Perry wrote for @CNNOpinion on how medieval campus protests created the modern university:
Here’s @llassabe for @ConversationUS on how college administrators are falling into a familiar right-wing trap (h/t @UNC_Press):
@Will_Bunch’s @PhillyInquirer column has been a consistent source of thoughtful analysis on the protests & responses (gift link here):
& @raziaiqbal wrote for @thenation on what’s at stake in a campus protest like Princeton’s (h/t @WalterDGreason):
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/princeton-campus-protest-gaza/
Related & powerful column from @ninastpierre for @latimes on why protesters like her mother choose to self-immolate:
Important essay from @dcli for @LPE_Project on imperialism & the military industrial complex (h/t @corinneblalock):
https://lpeproject.org/blog/imperialisms-shell-game/
& @IveyHistorian created a crucial thread putting the current divestment protests in conversation with anti-apartheid ones:
https://twitter.com/IveyHistorian/status/1785015063474213149
Finally in current events, another excellent @johnastoehr election year thread, this one on Biden’s importantly combative responses to Trump:
https://www.editorialboard.com/joe-biden-is-the-most-combative-democratic-nominee-in-decades/
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring Leslie Heaphy of @sabr on the Negro Leagues:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/negro-leagues/
For @InvalidCulture, hosts @kawaiilovesarah & @jeffpreston talked the 2008 psychological thriller Quid Pro Quo & disability rights:
Episode 15 of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod featured educator Irene Ann Resenly on how to teach the Holocaust:
@KnowYrEnemyPod’s @MatthewSitman & @samadlerbell interviewed Christian Wiman on his poetry against despair:
https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/tk-w-christian-wiman-_kOGQQuI
Speaking of poetry, thanks to @annbeebe5 for sharing her new podcast A Verse Reaction, with nine Series 1 episodes out now:
Two new episodes of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast this week, including @SethCotlar & @kelsapellet on Franklin episode 5:
& also for @HerbertHistory’s HATM podcast, check out @kathleen_belew on the 80s cult favorite film Red Dawn:
Four new pieces for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @hodgepodge96 on free speech contexts for the campus protests:
https://time.com/6971920/campus-gaza-protests-free-speech-tension/
@mateojarquin wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the Nicaraguan leader who opposed Reagan & remains in power:
Here’s Katherine Benton-Cohen for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the histories behind Arizona’s extreme abortion ban:
& on a lighter note for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, @amandaeherbert & @DrJulieHardwick wrote on an unexpected effect of Taylor Swift’s new album:
https://time.com/6971832/the-tortured-poets-department-french-manuscripts/
The excellent @BlkPerspectives Forum on anti-apartheid activism continued this week, including two @PhenomenalTiana interviews, one with @athambile on the end of Apartheid:
https://www.aaihs.org/the-end-of-south-african-apartheid-an-interview-with-dr-athambile-masola/
& @PhenomenalTiana also interviewed Gabeba Baderoon for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on the pursuit of freedom in South Africa:
https://www.aaihs.org/the-pursuit-of-freedom-in-south-africa-an-interview-with-dr-gabeba-baderoon/
@PhenomenalTiana also continued her own great piece to the @BlkPerspectives Forum, on the Third World Women’s Alliance:
https://www.aaihs.org/the-third-world-womens-alliance-and-anti-apartheid-organizing/
@_yasminamartin wrote for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on Simon Nkoli & the Gay & Lesbian Organization of the Witwatersrand (GLOW):
https://www.aaihs.org/simon-nkoli-glow-and-the-anti-apartheid-struggle/
& here’s Noor Nieftagodien for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on how student protests were crucial to the overthrow of Apartheid:
https://www.aaihs.org/black-high-school-students-and-the-overthrow-of-apartheid/
Lots of important new book publications this week, including @eric_schlereth’s Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America from @UNC_Press:
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469678535/quitting-the-nation/
Also out this week from @UNC_Press is @mateojarquin’s The Sandinista Revolution:
https://twitter.com/mateojarquin/status/1785338003793350918
& one more new release from @UNC_Press this week, @OmarValerioJim1’s Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, & Citizenship (h/t @BenjaminHJohns1):
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675626/remembering-conquest/
Also published this week was @kate_ballantyne’s Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, & Student Power in Tennessee from @UGAPress:
https://twitter.com/kate_ballantyne/status/1785687155815113137
& now out from @RLPGBooks is the collection Conspiracy Theories & Extremism in New Times, edited by @TinkeringHuman et al (h/t @AssessmentG):
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666933086/Conspiracy-Theories-and-Extremism-in-New-Times
@caitlinherdez wrote for @ocregister on @E_Devienne’s new book Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in 20C Los Angeles from @OxUniPress:
For @guardian, Rich Tenorio reviews @rkdcolby86’s book An Unholy Traffic, also out now from @OUPHistory:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/28/robert-colby-unholy-traffic-slave-trade-civil-war
While for @newrepublic, @julianzelizer reviewed @ProfStevenHahn’s book Illiberal America from @wwnorton:
& for his newsletter A Sea of Words @LincolnPaine reviewed @lucia_carminati’s book on the Suez Canal from @ucpress:
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as usual, starting with this incredible essay from my @Fitchburg_State colleague @The_Big_Quiet for @yalereview:
A trio of great pop culture studying pieces to highlight, including @AdrienneLaF for @TheAtlantic on the inimitable Albert Brooks:
@elizabethalsop wrote for @LAReviewofBooks on prestige TV’s backstory problem:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-past-is-never-dead-on-tvs-backstory-problem/
& @gvaughnjoy’s Review Roulette newsletter made a triumphant return with a #MayDay2024 review of Salt of the Earth:
Finally, can’t get enough public scholarship? I’m with you, so make sure to check out @DrDionGeorgiou’s latest Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter:
PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please add more public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & may May be a month of solidarity for us all! #twitterstorians
Gotta add one of my own to the thread, the new issue of Zeal, the @KingsCollege_PA Journal for the Liberal Arts edited by @robinfield:
& in that new issue of Zeal, make sure to check out @HermioneClone on why & how we must fight for a kinder academy: