My 177th #ScholarSunday thread is a mother lode of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Share widely, add more below, & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians
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Starting with a few favorites from the week as usual, including a Holocaust Remembrance Day special issue of @journey_planet featuring work from @AvramDavidson & many others:
http://www.journeyplanet.org/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/issue-81-the-holocaust
Bracing & inspiring essay from @byeliseam for @TheForumAAPF on student activists, past & present (h/t @insurrect_histo):
https://forummag.com/2024/05/04/to-save-the-world-build-it-anew/
I loved @AudreLawdAMercy’s contribution to @Slate’s ongoing How Originalism At the Law series, inspired by her book The Originalism Trap:
& beautiful work from @salamishah for @TheAtlantic on the woman behind Gordon Parks’ most famous photograph:
Turning to other great public scholarly writing from the week, here’s @rodriquese for @thenation on the magisterial historian Nell Irvin Painter:
Maria Smilios wrote for @the_emancipator on the Black nurses who helped cure TB after the Great Migration (h/t @DukeAAAS):
https://theemancipator.org/2024/05/09/health-equity/the-black-nurses-who-helped-cure-tuberculosis/
@DrTanyaRoth’s latest @SatEvePost column is a deep dive into the history of military servicewomen’s uniforms:
Also for @SatEvePost, @Ken_Budd wrote on what those who predict a new civil war need to learn from Civil War battlefields:
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/05/the-never-ending-war/
Illuminating piece from @DavidHeadPhD for Real Clear Public Affairs on the too-often-overlooked Spanish contribution to American independence:
For @thejamhistory’s “Process” blog, @ebalexan & @rachelshelden followed up their excellent recent article on 19th century political parties:
& check out @EndofSportPod’s @JohannaMellis @Derekcrim & @nkalamb for the Journal of Higher Ed Athletics & Innovation on their experiences as public scholars of college sport:
https://journals.shareok.org/jheai/article/view/1106
Turning to current events, tons more vital work this week on the campus protests, including @benjamingwright for @DMagazine on what he & his students learned in jail (h/t @PhDRachel):
The great @victorerikray wrote for @jacobin on what mainstream media coverage of the protests is missing (h/t @louise_seamster):
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/student-protesters-mainstream-media-coverage
For his @theprospect column, @rickperlstein linked the protests to the worst narratives & impulses of the Trump era (h/t @Will_Bunch):
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-08-new-anti-antisemitism-college-protests-gaza/
@KeeangaYamahtta wrote for @NewYorker on why it’s vital for us to listen to these young activists (h/t @RColesworthy):
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-kids-are-not-all-right-they-want-to-be-heard
For a historical context & comparison to the protests, @myHNN excerpted @kate_ballantyne’s book Radical Volunteers from @UGAPress:
https://www.hnn.us/article/the-leaders-of-tomorrow
UCLA Professor Anahid Nersessian wrote for the @LRB’s blog on their experiences at that campus’s protests:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/under-the-jumbotron
& the USC @dailytrojan shared valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement address as she submitted it to them (h/t @Devo3000):
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/05/10/2024-commencement-address/
Turning to other current events, vital essay from @jbwashing for @nybooks on two new works on the deepening climate crisis:
& for @johnastoehr’s newsletter, @espinsegall wrote on how we’re all ruled by the current Supreme Court’s lawlessness:
https://www.editorialboard.com/the-supreme-courts-rule-of-lawlessness/
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @LarryTye on his book on three jazz legends:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/jazz/
Speaking of @LarryTye, check out this excerpt of his book The Jazzmen for @FortuneMagazine (h/t @johnastoehr):
https://fortune.com/2024/05/04/the-jazzmen-book-ellington-armstrong-basie-music-race-america/
Back to podcasts, the latest episode of @historyfocusnet features @DrHettie2017 on the great Marion Thompson Wright:
https://www.historians.org/collaborative-history-plus-revisiting-marion-thompson-wright
For @NovelDialogue, @S_Insley_H interviewed novelist @blgtylr on moral worldbuilding & the stakes of fiction in 2024:
For @PublicBooks’ podcast, @gerry_cadava interviewed @ProfCeciliaM on her book Making the Latino South from @UNC_Press:
https://www.publicbooks.org/cecilia-marquez-on-making-the-latino-south/
While the latest episode of @axelbankhistory features @edwardokeefe on his book The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt from @simonschuster:
For @socannex, @danielrmorrison interviewed @Catherineoscopy on her new book Spaces on the Spectrum from @ColumbiaUP:
https://socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/catherine-tan-spaces-on-the-spectrum/
For @blackathletepod, @loumoore12 & @blackstar1906 interviewed @Prof_Suddler on the state of the WNBA & NBA:
Episode 16 of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod features @HistProfDad on Dwight Eisenhower & the Holocaust:
For a fun new episode of @C19Podcast, @Kassie_Jo_Baron & Karah M. Mitchell talked about canine companions in history & fiction:
& the new episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast features @brdemuth on In the Heart of the Sea & all things whaling history:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1788555757736067406
More great work for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @JeanneTheoharis on MLK & the Gaza protests (h/t @sayburgin):
https://time.com/6975559/mlk-gaza-civil-rights-history/
@adam_tomasi also wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on Civil Rights Movement contexts for the Gaza protests:
While @voguehistorian wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the Met Gala’s “garden of time” theme & political history:
Finally for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s Sherrie Page Guyer on how school nurses will be vital to addressing the teen mental health crisis:
The @BlkPerspectives Forum on anti-apartheid activism continued this week with Navid Farnia on Apartheid’s murderous legacies:
https://www.aaihs.org/chris-hani-national-liberation-and-apartheids-murderous-legacies/
& @amandajoycehall concluded the @BlkPerspectives Forum with a beautiful response on 30 years of democracy in South Africa:
https://www.aaihs.org/roundtable-response-reflections-on-thirty-years-of-democracy-in-south-africa/
Also for @BlkPerspectives, Lucien Baskin of @SchomburgCenter’s Conversations in Black Freedom Studies highlighted work from @lesliemalex @MayesUMN @ZebulonMiletsky & more:
https://www.aaihs.org/education-and-liberation-a-cbfs-conversation/
Lots of great new scholarly books published this week, including @maybeavalon’s The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, & the Literary Imagination of LA from @SUNYPress:
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Recursive-Frontier
Also out this week is @KimAtiWagner’s long-awaited Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity & the Erasure of History from @HachetteUS:
Likewise published this week is @randymbrowne’s The Driver’s Story: Labor & Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery for @PennPress:
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825862/the-drivers-story/
Also newly released is @MehrsaBaradaran’s The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism & the Looting of America for @wwnorton:
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091165
& check out @WSUPress’ new collection Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers & Jewish American Literary History, edited by @KahanLori et al:
https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814349854/matrilineal-dissent/
Now available for pre-order is @Ben_Bscm’s Messy Messy Masculinity: The Politics of Eccentric Men in the Early US from @OxUniPress:
Also available for pre-order is @MichaelHattem’s latest The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History from @yalepress:
https://www.amazon.com/Memory-76-Revolution-American-History/dp/0300270879
& two books now available for pre-order from @UNC_Press, including @DrMaryHicks’ Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners & the World of South Atlantic Slavery:
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671468/captive-cosmopolitans/
& also available for pre-order from @UNC_Press is @lori_flori’s Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers & Activism from WWII to COVID-19:
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679860/awaiting-their-feast/
For @thenation, @SamAdlerBell reviewed Hannah Proctor’s book Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat from @VersoBooks:
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/burnout-hannah-proctor/
For @JewishBook, Elaine Elinson reviewed Robin Judd’s book Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust from @UNC_Press:
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/between-two-worlds-jewish-war-brides-after-the-holocaust
& for Comics Beat, @GCarmona3 interviewed @WalterDGreason & @Dieselfunk on their new Graphic History of Hip Hop:
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-with-creators-of-the-graphic-history-of-hip-hop/
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as ever, including @marissaspear71 for @contingent_mag on archival finds on the Black Panthers & the anti-Vietnam War movement:
https://contingentmagazine.org/2024/05/07/in-solidarity-and-sometimes-in-tandem/
Dan McCue wrote for @nursingclio’s Clio in Motion series on the histories & meanings of ice skating (h/t @sarahbelle721):
https://nursingclio.org/2024/05/08/its-wonderful-how-ice-can-be-so-warm/
For his latest Academic Bubble newsletter, @DrDionGeorgiou reviewed a 1990 pop punk debut album & the legacies of Thatcherism:
While for her latest awesome Review Roulette newsletter, @gvaughnjoy wrote about silence & meaning in The Conversation on its 50th anniversary:
Finally, for my new @SatEvePost Considering History column I was honored to share hard & inspiring histories from my own college campus, with the help of a phenomenal current undergrad:
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, & happy Mother’s Day to all who celebrate! #twitterstorians
PPS. No #ScholarSunday thread next week for a very good cause—I’m getting married!—so make sure to keep sharing all the great public scholarship & I’ll see you in two weeks!