After a nuptial week off, here’s my 178th #ScholarSunday thread, a holiday weekend special extra-full of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share widely please, 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 @ryanreft for @librarycongress blog on a vital story for the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Immigration Act:
Also check out this @cspan & @The_OAH conversation on the 1924 act, featuring @kgmkenny @irpinaingiro @YaelSchacher @Carl_Lindskoog & Seema Sohi:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?534837-2/immigration-act-1924-legacy
Great open-access article from @SilasLapham & @NunnallyMillie for @compajournal on Lillian Smith, Jim Crow, & Nazi Germany:
Excellent reporting from @SarahKuta for @SmithsonianMag on a new map that traces evolving educational segregation (h/t @DukeAAAS):
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/school-segregation-interactive-map-180984360/
& @WalterDGreason wrote for his site on the inspiring Afrofuturist urban design work of graduating @Macalester student Bryson Berry:
https://geniuslocus.com/2024/05/20/afrofuturism-and-black-urban-design/
Speaking of @WalterDGreason, he provided the caption & @RoBroSmo the art for this beautiful poster on Mary Seacole (h/t @HSGlobalHistory):
https://twitter.com/WalterDGreason/status/1792507383043764423
Turning to other great public scholarly writing, here’s Sarah Bird for @TexasMonthly on 1970s Black rodeos (drawn from her book with @UTexasPress):
While @lithub ran this excerpt from @screentimesup’s new @UChicagoPress edition of radical abolitionist John Swanson Jacobs’ (Harriet Jacobs’ brother!) book (h/t @ShernaKhambatta):
Also for @lithub, here’s Yogita Goyal on the increasing difficulty of categorizing contemporary African American lit (h/t @MrOkra):
& finally for @lithub, @Bloomily wrote on what novelist Pearl Buck’s memoir can teach parents of disabled children:
https://lithub.com/what-pearl-s-bucks-memoir-can-teach-parents-of-disabled-children/
M.A. Davis wrote for @nursingclio’s #ClioinMotion series on First Lady Betty Ford & the public eye (h/t @sarahbelle721):
https://nursingclio.org/2024/05/22/first-lady-in-motion-betty-ford-and-the-public-eye/
@DrTanyaRoth’s latest column for @SatEvePost revisits & revises our understanding of Rosie the Riveter & WWII women workers:
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/05/rosie-and-jenny-go-to-war/
Important work from @BarbaraLauriat for @history_law’s @TheDocketLHR on a groundbreaking legal trademark case (h/t @gauthamrao):
https://lawandhistoryreview.org/article/barbara-lauriat-a-first-case-at-common-law/
Excellent open-access article from @twiipongwii @1NativeSoilNerd & others for @FrontiersIn on improving indigenous food sovereignty:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1341146/full
& @DrMLovesLit interviewed Carmen Maria Machado for @MELUS_Society on her literary & scholarly explorations of 21st century identities:
https://academic.oup.com/melus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/melus/mlae029/7676389
Turning to current events, vital work from @BuddJenn for @sbsun on how the border “crisis” has been manufactured (h/t @dcsackman):
https://www.sbsun.com/2024/05/21/how-to-manufacture-a-border-crisis/
On the 4th anniversary of the George Floyd murder, @MichelleSPhelps wrote for @newrepublic on how the Minneapolis Police Department has dismantled itself:
While @dlondonwortel wrote for @jacobin on how worker cooperatives can fit into leftist activism & organizing:
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/cooperatives-dsa-left-strategy-solidarity
Unique & compelling essay from @karpmj for @Harpers on what 19C novelist George Eliot can tell us about 21C rural voters:
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/06/easy-chair-as-if-you-was-a-insect-matthew-karp/
@KProfsBlog linked to @DavarianBaldwin’s post on @LPEblog about universities exploiting their tax-exempt status:
Here’s towering human rights activist Aryeh Neier for @nybooks on whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza (h/t @PhilKlay):
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/06/is-israel-committing-genocide-aryeh-neier/
@Will_Bunch for his @PhillyInquirer is a must-read as ever, this time on Trump’s extreme deportation plan (gift link below):
While @rickperlstein wrote for his @TheProspect column on how TikTok influencers have begun to find their activist voices:
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-22-influencers-against-influencers/
& for a particularly inspiring current events story, check out @EdgeofSports for @TheNation on the Palestinian women’s soccer team:
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ireland-palestinian-womens-football-team-soccer/
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @whitney_nell on Southern plantations:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/plantations/
& since I missed it last week, here’s @Unsung__History’s May 13th episode featuring John Bardes on slavery & incarceration in New Orleans:
https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/new-orleans/
Great episode of @KQEDForum featuring @alexismadgiral’s interview with @AnaRMinian on her new book on immigration detention:
Speaking of important new books, @KnowYrEnemyPod’s @MatthewSitman & @SamAdlerBell interviewed @DavidAstinWalsh on his book Taking America Back:
While the latest @axelbankhistory features @HigginbothamA on his book Challenger from @SimonBooks:
@MurderSheet interviewed Sharon Hatfield on her new book Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell from @IllinoisPress:
& @EndofSportPod interviewed @wagesofwins on his new book on women’s sports Slaying the Trolls, co-authored with @NefWalker:
https://theendofsport.podbean.com/e/episode-139-the-political-economy-of-womens-sport/
@TalkNerdyPod’s @CaraSantaMaria interviewed @annashechtman on the feminist history of the crossword puzzle:
https://www.carasantamaria.com/podcast/anna-shechtman
@TheDissenterYT interviewed @lydia_moland on 19th century German philosophy, Hegel, & their relationship to US abolitionism:
Two episodes of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast this week, including @lizcovart of @BFWorldPodcast & @kelsapellet on the Franklin finale:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1792590229251006489
Also for @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast, @mfkantor joined to talk 21 Jump Street & the war on drugs in schools:
https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1793633334771237060
& @Slate’s Slow Burn podcast has launched its ninth season, hosted by @c_cauterucci & focused on a late 1970s LGBTQ+ civil rights battle:
https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s9/gays-against-briggs
Lots of great pieces for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @kmocon on lessons from the Berlin Airlift:
Ray Brescia wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on how a 19C legal case involving Boss Tweed offers a lesson for the Trump trials:
While Maurice Samuels wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on how 19C France in the age of the Dreyfus Affair can help 21C America heal:
& finally for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s Janet Golden on our frustratingly repetitive debates over child labor:
A trio of important new book publications this week, including @blackcapitol’s The Last Plantation: Racism & Resistance in the Halls of Congress from @PrincetonUPress:
Also out this week is @anthony_pinn’s The Black Practice of Disbelief from @BeaconPressBks:
https://twitter.com/anthony_pinn/status/1792988151130054689
& likewise published this week was @glennbracey2 & @MichaelOEmerson’s The Religion of Whiteness from @OxUniPress:
https://twitter.com/glennbracey2/status/1793067167820251191
Now available for pre-order is @AshGolddust & @FordRisley’s How America Gets the News from @RLPGBooks’ American Ways (the great series in which I published my last two books!):
@myHNN excerpted Sean Griffin’s new book The Root & the Branch: Working-Class Reform & Antislavery, 1790-1860 from @PennPress:
https://www.hnn.us/article/sordid-mercantile-souls
While @hereandnow interviewed @jason_p_deleon on his new book Soldiers & Kings: Survival & Hope in the World of Human Smuggling from @VikingBooks:
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/05/21/soldiers-and-kings-smugglers
& for @NewBooksNetwork, @JarrardClayton interviewed @sunaura_taylor on her new book Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert from @ucpress:
https://twitter.com/JarrardClayton/status/1792909658941780368
Finally in recent books, here’s @NickSacco55 for @CivilWarMonitor on Sydney J. Norton’s edited collection Fighting for a Free Missouri from @umissouripress:
https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/norton-ed-fighting-for-a-free-missouri-2023/
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as usual, including this moving @AAAStudies tribute to the late, great Gary Okihiro:
https://aaastudies.org/announcements/remembering-gary-okihiro/
@DrDionGeorgiou wrote for his excellent Academic Bubble newsletter on the changing political economy of post-WWII English football:
While for the latest installment of her awesome Review Roulette newsletter @gvaughnjoy put Cocktail in conversation with Wall Street & the 1980s:
Finally, here’s my latest @SatEvePost Considering History column, a post-wedding tribute to one of Cape Cod’s & America’s most impressive & inspiring figures, Paul Cuffe:
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/05/paul-cuffes-revolutionary-american-life-and-legacy/
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, & may it be a restful & reflective rest of the holiday weekend, all! #twitterstorians