#ScholarSunday Thread 191

Shared on September 22, 2024

Autumn is here, & with it my 191^st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, & enjoy, all!

Starting with a couple great pieces from colleagues of mine at the Saturday Evening Post, including Einav Rabinovitch-Fox on the 1960s rise of the mini skirt:

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/09/common-threads-the-rise-and-rise-and-rise-of-the-mini-skirt/

Jeff Nilsson wrote for his Saturday Evening Post column on the strikingly frequent straw hat riots of the early 20^th century:

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/09/the-straw-hat-riots-come-to-a-head/

& for my latest Considering History column, I highlighted the fascinating 19^th century baseball stories that contextualize my new podcast (on which more below!):

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/09/considering-history-19th-century-baseball-and-the-battle-for-america/

Turning to other great public scholarly writing from the week, here’s Arya Surowidjojo for Oregon Public Broadcasting on archaeological finds that reveal the stories of Black logging families:

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/17/maxville-archaeology-oregon-black-history/

Great stuff for the AHA’s Perspectives column from Justene Hill Edwards on teaching Reconstruction & the Reconstruction Amendments:

https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/thenceforward-and-forever-free/

For the next entry in SHGAPE’s forum on Anthony Comstock, Lauren MacIvor Thompson wrote about contraception & the original medical exemption:

https://blog.shgape.org/abortion-contraception-and-the-comstock-laws-original-medical-exemption-1873-1936/

Turning to current events, for the New York Review of Books Jed Rakoff used Stephen Breyer’s book Reading the Constitution as a starting point for a great essay on the Supreme Court & the Constitution:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/09/19/the-most-conservative-branch-reading-the-constitution-stephen-breyer/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2024-09-07_Rakoff-Breyer-2

Will Bunch’s Philadelphia Inquirer column is a must-read as ever, this time on the attacks on Springfield’s Haitian American community:

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/springfield-haitian-immigrants-trump-vance-20240915.html

& on that same topic, The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner interviewed Kathleen Belew on historical precedents for those attacks:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-historical-precedents-to-trumps-attacks-on-haitian-immigrants

Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including the latest Unsung History featuring the legendary Lou Moore on his new book on Black QBs:

https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/BlackQBs/

For the New Books Network, Meghan Cochran interviewed Jonathan Gienapp on his new book Against Constitutional Originalism:

https://newbooksnetwork.com/against-constitutional-originalism

Two great episodes of the SocAnnex’s Sociology Podcast to highlight this week, including Paige Sweet on women navigating domestic violence:

https://socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/6872/

& also for SocAnnex, Ali Meghi talked DuBoisian sociology after Du Bois:

https://socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/ali-meghi-on-duboisian-sociology-dubois/

Really enjoying the LES Center’s podcast series on Lillian Smith & religion, & here’s Part III featuring Keri Leigh Merritt & others:

For the latest episode of his Holocaust History Podcast, Waitman Beorn talked with David Marwell about Dr. Josef Mengele:

Loved the new episode of Liam Heffernan’s America: A History podcast, featuring John Collins on country music:

I recently got to talk with Liam about my own new podcast & the history of baseball, so watch this space for that episode in a couple weeks! & speaking of The Celestials’ Last Game: Baseball, Bigotry, & the Battle for America, the Third Inning has now dropped:

https://americanstudier.podbean.com/e/third-innings-the-celestials-and-baseball-in-the-19th-century/

We’re 1/3^rd of the way into The Celestials’ Last Game & things are only going to get more meaningful from here, so I also wanted to offer a preview of the Sixth Inning & the Game itself:

https://americanstudier.podbean.com/e/preview-of-the-6th-inning-and-the-game/

Five great pieces on the 2024 election for Time’s Made By History this week, including Duncan Hosie on Project 2025 & the Imperial Presidency:

https://time.com/7014767/project-2025-imperial-presidency/

& Marie-Amélie George also wrote about Project 2025 for Made By History, focusing on its false ideas about LGBTQ Americans:

https://time.com/7015646/project-2025-lgbtq-history/

Christine Adams wrote for Made By History on how the French Revolution offers a warning about presidential immunity:

https://time.com/6998576/presidential-immunity-character/

Also for Made By History, Lindsay Chervinsky highlighted the role that foreign policy might play in this election:

https://time.com/7021448/presidential-elections-foreign-policy/

& finally for Made By History, here’s Kali Nicole Gross on the Black women’s histories behind Kamala Harris’ promises on reproductive freedom:

https://time.com/7015228/black-women-reproductive-freedom/

Speaking of Black women’s history, AAIHS’s Black Perspectives has a new forum on Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora, kicked off by Heidi Carolyn Feldman on Victoria Santa Cruz:

https://www.aaihs.org/remembering-victoria-santa-cruz-a-global-life/

Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma continued the forum with a piece on situating Nigerian women in global Black politics discourse:

https://www.aaihs.org/situating-nigerian-women-in-global-black-politics-discourse/

Silke Hackenesch wrote for the forum on a Black woman’s activism in postwar West Germany:

https://www.aaihs.org/a-black-womans-activism-in-postwar-west-germany/

Also for the Black Perspectives forum, here’s Max Lewontin on Clotil Walcott & Black Power in Trinidad & Tobago:

https://www.aaihs.org/clotil-walcott-and-black-power-in-trinidad-and-tobago/

& finally for this first week of the Black Perspectives forum, Maria Martin wrote on Black women comrades in the struggle for liberation:

https://www.aaihs.org/black-women-comrades-in-the-struggle-for-liberation/

Couple important new book publications from University of Pennsylvania Press to highlight this week, including Joseph Entin & Jeanne Theoharis’s edited collection Until We’re Seen: Public College Students Expose the Hidden Inequalities of the COVID-19 Pandemic:

https://www.pennpress.org/9781512826371/until-were-seen/

Also for Penn Press, check out Mary Ellen Curtin’s She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life & Legacy in Black Politics:

https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825800/she-changed-the-nation/

For coverage of another important recent book, check out Marina Magloire for The Nation on Courtney Thorsson’s The Sisterhood:

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/the-sisterhood-courtney-thorsson/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20September%2018%2C%202024&utm_term=lithub_master_list

& for a forthcoming book we should all check out, here’s Rose Casey’s Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law & Postcolonial Style from Fordham University Press:

https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531510633/aesthetic-impropriety/

Gonna end with a handful of great newsletters from the last week, including Stephanie Wilson’s Freedom Over Fascism on Trump’s distracting xenophobic lies:

Trump lies about immigrants to distract from his wackadoodle and dangerous platform

For Kevin Levin’s Civil War Memory newsletter, he reflected on Antietam’s anniversary with a great post of book recommendations:

Remembering Antietam One Book at a Time

Vaughn Joy’s Review Roulette has continued its triumphant return from hiatus, with a newsletter inspired by her submission of her PhD dissertation (excerpted in the piece):

A Very Special PhD Submission Christmas

& for his Academic Bubble newsletter, Dion Georgiou reviewed the 1980 English film Falling in Love Again:

Falling in Love Again (1980)

Speaking of the Academic Bubble newsletter, if you want more public scholarly goodness check out the latest installment of Dion’s Stop, Look, & Listen:

Stop, Look, and Listen #33

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more writing, podcasts, & books below. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & have a great start to your Falls, y’all!