Here it is, my 182nd #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
Starting with a handful of the many wonderful pieces for #Juneteenth, including @AmReese07 for @oxfordamerican’s On Jubilee web zine:
https://twitter.com/oxfordamerican/status/1803488601482592295
@MichelleDuster wrote for @RebelliousMag on how Juneteenth commemorations should focus on righting wrongs:
https://twitter.com/MichelleDuster/status/1803403429965967630
Here’s @ProfGeorgeYancy for @truthout on how Juneteenth reminds us of the continued fight for freedom (h/t @NewBlackMan):
https://twitter.com/NewBlackMan/status/1803631256376111277
While @wolverinewilson wrote for @ZinnEdProject’s #TeachOutsideTextbook project on how it was power, not “news,” that traveled slowly:
https://twitter.com/ZinnEdProject/status/1803390766724596068
Here are @susannahjural & Ann Marsh Daly for @TheAtlantic on Black accounts of Juneteenth celebrations in 1864 New Orleans:
https://twitter.com/susannahjural/status/1802685712552095971
& for his birthday, @robertpjones wrote for his own site on making the season between Juneteenth & July 4th a critical patriotic one:
https://twitter.com/robertpjones/status/1803385996945367475
Turning to other great public scholarly writing from the week, here’s @TiyaMilesTAM for @lithub on Harriet Tubman’s early spiritual education (h/t @NewBlackman):
https://twitter.com/NewBlackMan/status/1803100606338371795
While Christine Kinealy wrote for @ConversationUS on what Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist (h/t @Victor_Asal):
https://twitter.com/Victor_Asal/status/1803443575579083253
& @TheEconomist highlighted the work of @TrevonDLogan & @_bentonwishart tracing white women’s involvement in slavery:
https://twitter.com/TrevonDLogan/status/1803535435328623060
Really glad to see that @the_emancipator has re-launched, from EIC @JamilSmith & with a collection for the 50th anniversary of the Boston busing riots (h/t @michellelegro):
https://twitter.com/michellelegro/status/1804243427770437791
Here’s the great @Dart_Adams for that @the_emancipator collection, on the beautiful vision of Boston’s Freedom Schools (h/t @DukeAAAS):
https://twitter.com/DukeAAAS/status/1804193255220711798
One more from that @the_emancipator collection, @JeanneTheoharis on why it was a segregation rather than a busing crisis:
https://twitter.com/JeanneTheoharis/status/1804256517761220865
& for @AgeofRevs’ @ConsortiumrRev, Jennifer Wells wrote on the struggle for equality & inclusion in postcolonial Virginia:
https://twitter.com/AgeofRevs/status/1802677053835149365
Speaking of inclusion & turning to current events, @dan_sinykin & @RichardJeanSo wrote for @theatlantic on how the publishing industry is retreating from diversity (h/t @PhilipLeventhal):
https://twitter.com/PhilipLeventhal/status/1803409926645018789
Here’s @lionel_trolling for @VanityFair with an excerpt from his new book on how David Duke paved the way for Trumpism (h/t @reportbywilson):
https://twitter.com/reportbywilson/status/1803276720654504316
@ElieNYC for @thenation is a must-read as always, this time on the purposefully disastrous effects of the Supreme Court’s bump stocks decision:
https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1802447559136272850
Speaking of the Court, Amy Hart wrote for @ConversationUS on why historians are having such a difficult time guiding the Justices (h/t @marytodd):
https://twitter.com/marytodd/status/1802722977554874674
Bracing & vital work from @DLind for @VanityFair (with photos by Go Nakamura) on the global displacement crisis & the US border:
https://twitter.com/DLind/status/1802723178168434706
Great piece from @RhodenRhoden8 for @andscape on the athlete activism of Celtics star Jaylen Brown (h/t @LeftofBlack):
https://twitter.com/LeftOfBlack/status/1803171355526922517
While @EdgeofSports & @JulesBoykoff wrote for @thenation on the coming clash between the Paris Olympics & the French far right:
https://twitter.com/EdgeofSports/status/1804234634571518286
Phenomenal new @BostonReview forum, led by @OlufemiOTaiwo & featuring multiple voices on climate, state, & utopia:
https://twitter.com/BostonReview/status/1802730566745301440
& speaking of excellent new collections of scholarship, check out @pfxbryan & @S_Mittermeier’s co-edited special issue of the Journal of American Culture:
https://twitter.com/pfxbryan/status/1803548620211249543
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @JannekenSmucker on quilting & the New Deal:
https://twitter.com/Unsung__History/status/1802751003638587477
The newest @draftingthepast episode features @jaheppler on his new book from @OUPress, his work with @chnm, & more:
https://twitter.com/draftingthepast/status/1803065497216270811
For @socannex, @danielrmorrison interviews @MichelleSPhelps on her new book The Minneapolis Reckoning from @PrincetonUPress:
https://twitter.com/danielrmorrison/status/1802686960575610952
While for @KnowYrEnemyPod, @MatthewSitman & @SamAdlerBell interviewed @NeilJYoung17 on his new book on the gay right from @UChicagoPress:
https://twitter.com/MatthewSitman/status/1802778816139362348
& for @PodOnlyKnowsPod, @ProbablyRealJB & @kelly_j_baker interviewed @TaylorMatthewD on Alito’s flag & a lot more:
https://twitter.com/PodOnlyKnowsPod/status/1803057418437317023
For @EndofSportPod, hosts @derekcrim & @nkalamb interviewed @McCannSportsLaw of @Sportico on the legal landscape of college sports:
https://twitter.com/EndofSportPod/status/1802674943659749606
& episode 22 of @waitmanb’s @HolocaustPod features @DitteMunch on Nazi perpetrators & the question of disgust:
https://twitter.com/HolocaustPod/status/1802659188184649751
All of season 9 of @Slate’s Slow Burn, hosted by @c_cauterucci, is now available for download (h/t @DrDionGeorgiou):
https://twitter.com/DrDionGeorgiou/status/1803032536165077024
& check out the first episode of @publicservice’s #TransitionLab Season Two, featuring @lmchervinsky on the first transfer of presidential power:
https://twitter.com/lmchervinsky/status/1803092032421794045
Four great pieces for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @WannaBeWarnerBr on the deep roots of the Chiquita verdict:
https://twitter.com/WannaBeWarnerBr/status/1803120083981722040
Also for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s @Elizabeth_Cobbs on the only Black woman to serve in the US Army in WWII:
https://twitter.com/TIMEHistory/status/1803431534319300943
While Emma Peterson & Daniel Martinez Hosang wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on how doctors came to play a key role in the abortion debate:
https://twitter.com/TIMEHistory/status/1803775297910694346
& finally for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s Solcyré Burga on how the US military helped build San Francisco’s LBGTQ+ legacy:
https://twitter.com/TIMEHistory/status/1804235825187582360
A trio of important new book releases to highlight this week, including @TiyaMilesTAM’s Night Flyer from @penguinpress:
https://twitter.com/penguinpress/status/1803097691322224735
Also published this week was @IanDelahanty’s Embracing Emancipation from @FordhamPress (h/t @hidehirota):
https://twitter.com/hidehirota/status/1803209445075521989
& likewise out this week is @LeeJSessions’s Nature, Culture, & Race in Colonial Cuba from @yalepress:
https://twitter.com/LeeJSessions/status/1803057032599101887
Also a trio of important books now available for pre-order, including @waitmanb’s Between the Wires from @UnivNebPress:
https://twitter.com/waitmanb/status/1802636479727911339
Likewise now available for pre-order is @ElizabethLBlock’s Beyond Vanity: The History & Power of Hairdressing from @mitpress:
https://twitter.com/ElizabethLBlock/status/1803184480011895244
& finally available for pre-order is @CamdenBurd’s The Roots of Flower City: Horticulture, Empire, & the Remaking of Rochester, New York from @CornellPress:
https://twitter.com/CamdenBurd/status/1803760592756379916
For @newlinesmag, @KimAtiWagner excerpted his new book Massacre in the Clouds from @HachetteUS:
https://twitter.com/KimAtiWagner/status/1802664670937145630
While @thenation excerpted @BisforBerkshire & @Edu_Historian’s forthcoming book The Education Wars from @thenewpress:
https://twitter.com/BisforBerkshire/status/1803051157146812662
For @NewBooksNetwork, @rinewithoutacat interviewed @S_DeGooyer on her new book Beyond Borders from @JHUPress:
https://twitter.com/rinewithoutacat/status/1804501561294332143
While for @TheAtlantic, @ehaspel reviewed @JessicaCalarco’s new book Holding It Together from @PenguinRandom:
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1802638591912214554
& for @UnPopulistMag, @joestieb reviewed @DavidAstinWalsh’s new book Taking America Back from @yalepress (h//t @bernybelvedere):
https://twitter.com/bernybelvedere/status/1803140417879146809
Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week as usual, including @knguyen for @verge on Game of Thrones & the TV Recap era (h/t @pjmaciak):
https://twitter.com/pjmaciak/status/1804197238991626272
Here’s @borywrites for @PublicBooks on how the film American Fiction works as a satirical Trojan Horse:
https://twitter.com/PublicBooks/status/1804493036556034423
While @Geniusbastard wrote for @ebertvoices on the history of Black cinematic villains & how recent MCU films have weaponized them:
https://twitter.com/ebertvoices/status/1804183244621164907
& for her latest excellent Review Roulette newsletter, @gvaughnjoy thoughtfully & beautifully took on the very bizarre beast that is Footloose (1984):
https://twitter.com/gvaughnjoy/status/1804616777919258851
Finally, I have to end with one of my favorite blog Guest Posts ever, my son Kyle Railton on lessons from his Law class OJ trial project:
https://americanstudier.blogspot.com/2024/06/june-22-23-2024-kyle-railton-on-simpson.html
PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more writing & work, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below—as well as continuing to share the thread itself, por favor. Thanks, & happy reading, listening, & learning! #twitterstorians
PPS. Honeymooning next week, so I’ll see you in all two weeks for a #ScholarSunday thread that should be chock-full of 4th of July critical patriotism & much more. Keep sharing all the public scholarly work in the meantime, please!