#ScholarSunday thread 180

Published on June 9, 2024

Here it is, my 180^th #ScholarSunday thread 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 as #Pride public scholarship gets going, including one of @gvaughnjoy’s best Review Roulette pieces yet, on The Gay Deceivers (1969) & much more:

I Know a Queen Bitch When I See One

@NewBlackMan wrote for @Medium on the vital question of whether Motown, the “Sound of Young Amerca,” was also the “Sound of Queer America”:

https://medium.com/@tnimixtape/trapped-in-motowns-closet-by-mark-anthony-neal-863f499668a9

Important deep-dive from @lolaannmendez for @NatGeo on the history of how the rainbow flag between an LGBTQIA+ symbol:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/history-of-the-lgbtqia-pride-flag

& here’s @michaelwwaters for @myHNN on why libraries need to save tabloids to help reconstruct the story of queer America:

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-arent-libraries-saving-these-gossip-rags

Turning to other great public scholarly writing from the week, Nicholas Gilmore wrote for @SatEvePost on the female war correspondent who sneaked into D-Day:

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/11/the-female-war-correspondent-who-sneaked-into-d-day/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2UenJUCNW72VM5vhuTh4eVmwP0Cdmac_HXlykdTfxPuXuIYrtIxWGBChE_aem_AapVb1zmzNnzmy5xDx22srIaXIcwSxknWmZ2ovBXbiTy9ruUbMPfJM3Djrybh9qgSZRpq7Wp5ndkxxtmxp9EiqvL

Also for D-Day, check out @edvulliamy & @VannierPascal for @nybooks on the pivotal battle’s forgotten European victims:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/20/d-days-forgotten-victims-speak-out-forgotten-blitzes/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2024-06-06_Vulliamy-BombingFrench-1

Also for @nybooks, here’s Adom Getachew on scholar Louis Chude-Sokei’s reimaginings of the Africa diaspora (h/t @S_L_Alexander):

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/20/black-atlantics-floating-in-a-most-peculiar-way-chude-sokei/

Moving essay from @DrCristinita for @ThePublicSquare on how she & Michele Serros wrote their way back to their hometown (h/t @jennrnajera):

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/06/04/two-chicana-nerds-oxnard-michele-serros/ideas/essay/

While @edgesgr wrote about Operation Blockade & fascism at the border for the @PublicBooks series on the 1924 Immigration Act:

https://www.publicbooks.org/on-the-edges-of-fascism-and-other-unsettling-possibilities/?utm_content=buffer06726&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Great essay from @ayendybonifacio for @insurrect_histo on the social & cultural roots of Dominican colorism:

https://www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/s5il7a06raczit9n6sio2yqtov9duy

Guiseppe Perelli wrote for @AgeofRevs on representations & counterfeits of Lady Liberty in Restoration Italy:

https://ageofrevolutions.com/2024/06/03/lady-liberty-in-restoration-italy-crime-counterfeit-and-carbonari-revolutionary-politics/

@S_L_Alexander has launched a new column on race, history, & politics for @LawrenceKSTimes, starting with this piece on the activist George R. King:

https://twitter.com/S_L_Alexander/status/1798152528997020096

While @DrEinavRFox has guest-edited a special issue of @CostumeSociety’s open-access journal #DRESS:

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ydre20/50/1

& for a great new scholarly resource, check out the completed digital version of @JQAdams_MHS 1779-1848 Diary at @MHS1791:

https://twitter.com/MHS1791/status/1798088467244585367

Turning to current events, two great pieces for @JewishCurrents this week, including @alexispauline on June Jordan, Audre Lorde, & student protests (h/t @c_thorsson):

https://jewishcurrents.org/in-the-middle-of-fighting-for-freedom-we-found-ourselves-free

While @JeffSchuhrke wrote for @JewishCurrents on the paradox of unionized workers in the US weapons industry (h/t @erikmbaker):

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-problem-of-the-unionized-war-machine

@Will_Bunch for @PhillyInquirer is a must-read as always, this time on how the everyday Americans on the Trump jury helped correct a broken system:

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-criminal-conviction-judge-jury-20240601.html?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral

Vital piece from @kathleenKA4 for @ConversationUS on how local school boards are getting dragged into national culture wars:

https://theconversation.com/school-boards-long-locally-focused-and-nonpartisan-get-dragged-into-the-national-political-culture-wars-229143

& for @TheNation, @daniel_dsj2110 interviewed Aziz Rana on his new book The Constitutional Bind & why we need to stop worshipping that founding document:

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/qa-aziz-rana/tnamp/

Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @kcarterjackson on the Red Summer of 1919:

https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/red-summer/

& speaking of @kcarterjackson, @draftingthepast returned with a conversation about her new book from @BasicBooks & much more:

https://twitter.com/draftingthepast/status/1798078888779890764

Realms of Memory’s Rick Derderian interviewed @OmarValerioJim1 on his new book Remembering Conquest from @UNC_Press:

https://realmsofmemory.com/podcast/episode-29-mexican-americans-and-the-memory-of-the-us-mexico-war/

While episode 20 of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod features Jan Grabowski on Polish-Jewish relations in the Holocaust:

& for a very special episode of @EndofSportPod, @Derekcrim & @nkalamb interviewed the legendary Robin D.G. Kelley on protest politics:

https://theendofsport.podbean.com/e/episode-141-protest-politics-with-robin-d-g-kelley/

Also check out @MSNBC’s @AliVelshi interviewing @nhannahjones on the #1619Project’s five-year anniversary:

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1797260811183792258

Lots of great work for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @esj312 on the death of Christian right activist Beverly LaHaye:

https://time.com/6984604/beverly-lahaye-christian-right-women/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=455805408

While @EddieRCole wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on what college presidents can learn from history about campus protests:

https://time.com/6984701/college-presidents-protest-history/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=456708416

Great stuff from John Giggie for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on the anniversary of Tuscaloosa’s Bloody Tuesday:

https://time.com/6985577/tuscaloosa-bloody-tuesday/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=460487979

Here’s Joseph M. Thompson for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on how country music came to be so synonymous with patriotism & the military:

https://time.com/6985662/country-music-patriotism-military-money/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=459482415

& for D-Day, Sarah Thomson wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on what Reagan’s anniversary speech might mean for Biden’s:

https://time.com/6981074/dday-speech-reagan-biden/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=458979779

Lots of important new scholarly books out this week, including @KeebleArin’s 21^st Century Fictions of Terrorism from @EdinburghUP:

https://twitter.com/KeebleArin/status/1797609739674886623

Also out this week is @kcarterjackson’s We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance from @SealPress:

https://twitter.com/SealPress/status/1798006874941603903

Now available as well is @MoniAJimenez’s Making Never-Never Land: Race & Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico from @UNC_Press (h/t @DGershenowitz):

https://twitter.com/DGershenowitz/status/1798044110185771377

Also published this week was @PaulMSparrow1’s Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh--& the Battle to Save Democracy from @Pegasus_Books:

https://twitter.com/PaulMSparrow1/status/1798060744552092055

Likewise now available is Kathryn Hughes’s Catland: Louis Wain & the Great Cat Mania from @JHUPress:

https://twitter.com/JHUPress/status/1798029516129923342

& also out this week is @michaelwwaters’s The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, & the Making of Modern Sports from @Palgrave:

https://twitter.com/michaelwwaters/status/1798050699873497419

For another important new release, check out this @FastCompany excerpt from @JessicaCalarco’s Holding It Together:

https://www.fastcompany.com/91134896/how-the-diy-economy-hurts-women

& for a vital forthcoming book, check out this excerpt from @cjdenial’s A Pedagogy of Kindness from @UnivOklaPress:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Pedagogy_of_Kindness/CP7gEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR9&printsec=frontcover

Just in time for the NBA Finals, for @Current_Pub1 @p_emory reviewed @lazenby’s book on Magic Johnson from @CeladonBooks:

https://currentpub.com/2024/06/03/review-basketballs-magic/

While for @Ideas_History, Jeanelle D. Horcasitas reviewed @JuliaRoseKraut’s Threat of Dissent from @Harvard_Press:

https://s-usih.org/2024/05/centuries-of-suppression-jeanelle-d-horcasitas-on-julia-rose-krauts-threat-of-dissent-a-history-of-ideological-exclusion-and-deportation-in-the-united-states/

Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as ever, including @oliviastowell for @ASAP_Journal on labor studies & Ben Stiller:

https://asapjournal.com/feature/you-better-work-ben-on-labor-and-ben-stiller/

Among the many historical anniversaries this week, it’s important not to overlook the 100^th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act, which I blogged about all week:

https://americanstudier.blogspot.com/2024/06/june-3-2024-indian-citizenship-act.html

& check out @DrDionGeorgiou’s debut column for @SatEvePost, on Kent State & the route to violence on college campuses:

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/06/kent-state-and-the-route-to-violence-on-campus/

Finally, if you can’t get enough public scholarly goodness (& obviously I’m with you), make sure to check out @DrDionGeorgiou’s latest Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter:

https://twitter.com/DrDionGeorgiou/status/1798000530721321096

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, & see you on Father’s Day, all! #twitterstorians