Thread by @AmericanStudier

Here it is, my snowbound 62nd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work from the past week, as well as some new & forthcoming books to check out. Share more & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians

On the week’s most frustrating news, the banning of Maus by a TN school district, @Lollardfish is a must-read as ever for @CNNOpinion:
cnn.com/2022/01/27/opi…

& also check out this excellent @ProfIRMF thread on the white supremacist & Christianist roots of that decision:

https://twitter.com/ProfIRMF/status/1487028828350435328?s=20&t=P_HCcA5XNZ0FgDWe-01xtg

The best piece I read this week was @jbouie for @nytimes on the gaps & flaws in how we teach slavery (when, these days, we’re even legally able to do so):
nytimes.com/2022/01/28/opi…

Excellent @lkatfield piece for @NiskanenCenter on misrepresentations of Frederick Douglass in attacks on the #1619Project:
niskanencenter.org/frederick-doug…

For more on expanding our teaching, check out this powerful Christina Snyder piece for @SHEARites:
thepanorama.shear.org/2021/12/20/tea…

& for a stirring defense of history education from one of my favorite educators, here’s @KevinLevin on his Civil War Memory blog:

cwmemory.com/2022/01/29/sta…

& likewise this open letter to Georgia Senators from my friend @SilasLapham:

interminablerambling.medium.com/open-letter-to…

Important stuff from @tlecaque for @RDispatches on why the Dallas QAnon group qualifies as a cult:
religiondispatches.org/qanon-isnt-a-c…

Vital work from @wihorne for @truthout on the historical precedents for our continued moves toward fascism:
truthout.org/articles/fasci…

Speaking of frustrating historical legacies, here’s @artcrimeprof for @washingtonpost’s Voices Across America:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

For a much more inspiring historical legacy, here’s @AnneBranigin on Pauli Murray’s self-nomination for a Supreme Court vacancy:
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022…

The Post’s @madebyhistory featured a ton of great work this work as always, including @Mical_Raz on the most crucial reasons to reduce child poverty:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Also for @madebyhistory, @landonapalmer on why it’s a problem that a film filibuster still influences our perspective on that Senate procedure:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

(For more on the gap between film myth & frustrating reality, here’s my recent @SatEvePost Considering History column once more:)
saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/01/consid…

Also also for @madebyhistory, @justinmcbrien on why disaster films likely won’t lead to climate change action:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Finally for @madebyhistory, @JustinMRandolph on the longstanding histories behind Mississippi’s new anti-“CRT” law:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

For @BlkPerspectives, here’s the first half of @robgreeneII's recap of posts from 2021:
aaihs.org/a-sampling-of-…

Fascinating @TheAtlantic piece from @sarahzhang on forgotten, telling medical & social histories:
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

For the 100th anniversary of Nellie Bly’s death, @veronikellymars has assembled a @BookRiot bibliography of great works on Bly:
bookriot.com/nellie-bly/

Unique and compelling deep dive into salt makers & Ohio history, from @labrcq for @CommonplaceJrnl (h/t @CarisAdel):
commonplace.online/article/salt-a…

Speaking of Ohio, the other best piece I read this week is @TiyaMilesTAM for @AHAhistorians on the Ohio River:
historians.org/publications-a…

Compelling new @Unsung__History episode this week on a Newark Jewish American community who fought American Nazis, featuring @lesliebarry1:
unsunghistorypodcast.com/newark-minutem…

& a new @axelbankhistory episode with @WEMilteer on his book Beyond Slavery’s Shadow:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/axe…

Lots of great new & forthcoming books as usual this week. Here’s @proftyler’s just-released Disabilities of the Color Line with @NYUpress:

https://twitter.com/proftyler/status/1486860999382732800?s=20&t=i-AgAVW5gCt5SZDuaafgfQ

New from @USCPress (with a Foreword by @ProfMSinha) is the edited collection Fugitive Movements:

https://twitter.com/USCPress/status/1487088325521383429?s=20&t=P_HCcA5XNZ0FgDWe-01xtg

Now available for pre-order is @daveweinfeld’s book with @CornellPress on Horace Kallen & Alain Locke’s influential friendship:

https://twitter.com/daveweinfeld/status/1486143598684999682?s=20&t=i-AgAVW5gCt5SZDuaafgfQ

& also forthcoming, from @DukePress, is Felicity Amaya Schaeffer’s Unsettled Borders:

dukeupress.edu/unsettled-bord…

One more forthcoming book, @MJWitgen’s Seeing Red from @UNC_Press:

https://twitter.com/OIEAHC/status/1487161118565015556?s=20&t=P_HCcA5XNZ0FgDWe-01xtg

Still not enough great public scholarly writing, you say? Well you can’t go wrong with anything on @myHNN’s weekly Top Ten, including Garry Wills on Dorothy Day, @woodyholtonusc on 1619, @tzimmer_history on the Senate, & tons more!
historynewsnetwork.org/article/182314

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more public scholarly writing & work (including your own) below! Thanks & happy reading! #twitterstorians

Adding @TheOtherRBG’s new @madebyhistory piece to the thread!

https://twitter.com/madebyhistory/status/1487830318472216585