#ScholarSunday thread 185

Shared on August 4, 2024

Here it is, my 185^th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below & enjoy, all!

Remember, now that the threads have fully migrated here to my newsletter, I really need y’all’s suggestions & contributions. For example, I don’t know of any new or newly forthcoming books this week, but I have to believe there are some great ones. So please add them in comments, & please email me (brailton@fitchburgstate.edu) with all future contributions!

Loved this AAIHS Black Perspectives return from summer hiatus, an interview with the awesome Keisha Blain & Robert Greene II:

https://www.aaihs.org/global-black-thought-an-interview-with-keisha-n-blain-robert-greene-ii/

Adam Serwer’s latest for The Atlantic is a bracing & important examination of racism, sexism, & more in the unfolding attacks on Kamala Harris:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/racist-sexist-attacks-kamala-harris/679232/

While Rick Perlstein’s latest for The American Prospect examines a progressive pro-life group that might reflect a fracture in the conservative coalition:

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-07-24-seeds-of-conservative-crack-up/

Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest Unsung History featuring Vicki Valosik on the history of synchronized swimming:

https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/synchro/

Episode 48 of Drafting the Past features historian Neil J. Young on his new book on the history of the Gay Right & much more:

https://draftingthepast.com/podcast-episodes/episode-48-neil-j-young-gives-us-characters/

While the latest episode of the SocAnnex podcast features sociologist David Yamane on his new book Gun Curious:

https://socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/6863/

& check out the latest episode of Lost Hairdressers’ Mind Reader, featuring an interview with historian Elizabeth Block:

Tons of great work for Time’s Made By History this week, including Debbie Sharnak & Yannick Kluch on the myth of Olympic neutrality:

https://time.com/7004580/olympics-protest-rules-neutrality-history/

Also for Made By History’s Olympics coverage, check out Michael Waters on why Nazi gender testing is also a myth:

https://time.com/6998445/nazi-myth-olympics-gender-testing/

Turning to the US, Saul Cornell wrote for Made By History on why the Surgeon General, not the Supreme Court, has the 2^nd Amendment right:

https://time.com/7000365/surgeon-general-supreme-court-second-amendment-history/

While Seth C. Bruggeman wrote for Made By History on what Boston’s Freedom Trail leaves out of its historic interpretations:

https://time.com/6998433/freedoms-trail-boston-history-tourism/

& finally for Made By History, beach expert Elsa Devienne wrote on what we can learn from the history of efforts to save California’s beaches:

https://time.com/7000782/climate-change-history-california-beaches/

I loved this Saturday Evening Post column from my colleague there Amelie Allen on Hallie Flanagan & the Federal Theatre Project:

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/07/lets-put-on-a-show-hallie-flanagan-and-the-federal-theatre-project/

Since my last thread I’ve also published my newest Saturday Evening Post Considering History column, on how an important new film at Boston’s Old State House helps us better remember the horrific history of scalp bounties:

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/07/considering-history-the-troubling-story-of-scalp-bounties/

& I hope you’ll forgive me for sharing two links to my AmericanStudies blog this week; one because I really loved the MartinSheenStudying blog series and would love for y’all to check out the week’s posts:

https://americanstudier.blogspot.com/2024/07/july-29-2024-martin-sheen-studying.html

& the second because I really really love the subject of this weekend’s tribute post, my two amazing sons:

https://americanstudier.blogspot.com/2024/08/august-3-4-2024-proudly-tearful-tribute.html

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more from the week in comments below, email me (brailton@fitchburgstate.edu) with more for the threads at any time, & keep the solidarity going everywhere we can! Happy reading, listening, & learning, all!

PPS. Saw it just before posting, but for more public scholarly goodness, as always make sure to check out Dion Georgiou’s Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter:

Stop, Look, and Listen #29