Thread by @AmericanStudier

On this #MemorialDayWeekend, at the end of another painfully long week, here’s my 78th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the week. Add more below & solidarity! #twitterstorians

Gonna start with the best thread I read this week on guns in America, @UnlawfulEntries on lessons from her “Guns, Money, & Politics” class:

https://twitter.com/UnlawfulEntries/status/1529448201799061507?s=20&t=u77fGouX0ogqLhI-ZQgdsA

As we mourn with Uvalde, also an important moment to remember the town’s inspiring activist histories (h/t @CarisAdel):

iberoaztlan.com/articles/remem…

Speaking of the importance of engaging the past, couple great new projects dedicated to advancing that idea. There’s this excellent video from @AHAhistorians:

& this vital new project from @SussexHumsLab (h/t @thomascauvin):

blogs.sussex.ac.uk/capturing-the-…

Museums are another phenomenal place to advance that work, as illustrated by this @insider_ct piece on the state’s first Af Am history museum (h/t @KeishaBlain):
ctinsider.com/connecticutmag…

Also check out this @WFUProfWalker essay in @NewYorker on a transnational Black history exhibition:
newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

@adriawalkr wrote for @scalawagmag on what we can learn from the novels of Mildred D. Taylor (h/t @ProfessorCrunk):
scalawagmagazine.org/2022/05/roll-o…

Here’s @gdmusgrove for @washingtonpost’s Retropolis on the 50th anniversary of DC’s African Liberation Day:
washingtonpost.com/history/2022/0…

Important article from @MaggieEThornton on the links between white supremacy, segregation, & “gifted” programs (it’s pay-walled, but she’s generously offered a PDF to anyone interested):

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Speaking of important journal work, consider submitting to the special issue of Genealogy edited by @DrBrandonJett1 & @timothyfritz (h/t @WalterDGreason):

https://twitter.com/JulianChambliss/status/1529877388334596097?s=20&t=ahaCkIzKnEQFXNjqViHmmA

& speaking of special issues, here’s the new #ReviewsinDH, part 2 of a series on Black DH edited by @CollardStudies, @amplify285, & @trevormunoz:

https://twitter.com/roopikarisam/status/1528739556652204033?s=20&t=NA-ILRcJ0ahM8sLfw2EL6A_

Here’s Armin Mattes for @STARTPOINT1776 on the history of the Federal Reserve:
startingpointsjournal.com/the-supreme-co…

A few new podcast eps to share this week, starting with the new @Unsung__History featuring @wendymink & Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (as the great #AAPIHeritageMonth episodes continue):
unsunghistorypodcast.com/patsy-mink/

The new @Road_To_Now episode features the always vital @HC_Richardson:
theroadtonow.com/episodes/heath…

& here’s episode 1 of Be Seen, an oral history of the 1961 Black Nite Brawl:

open.spotify.com/episode/7dRhxe…

Lots of excellent work for @madebyhistory as ever, starting with @larafreidenfeld on abortion & the Constitution:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Also for @madebyhistory, David Sehat on the end of Roe and the rise of Christian power:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Sehat’s is also one of the pieces featured in @myHNN’s weekly top ten, always a great way to find more public scholarly reads:
historynewsnetwork.org/article/183248

Also also for @madebyhistory, @AdamLaats on conservatives & our public schools:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Also also also for @madebyhistory, @pioneermonument on the ongoing desecration of monuments featuring Native American women:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Also also also also for @madebyhistory, Thomas Guglielmo on remembering the military’s segregated history as part of #MemorialDay:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Finally for @madebyhistory, @agmacor on a more inspiring side to #WWII collective memory, the seriously under-remembered film The Best Years of Our Lives:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Couple upcoming @BlkPerspectives & @AAIHS events of note, including next week’s online forum on Black Women’s Biography organized by @drashleyfarmer & @soulistaphd:

https://twitter.com/BlkPerspectives/status/1530162451408465924?s=20&t=F10bbne_kL67TULwsHxvrw

& make sure to submit proposals for next year’s @AAIHS conference:

https://twitter.com/BlkPerspectives/status/1530171966992158720?s=20&t=F10bbne_kL67TULwsHxvrw

Really important @jblumgart @CityLab interview with @SheryllCashin on her vital new book from @penguinrandom on the collapse of racial integration:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Speaking of important new books from @penguinrandom, here’s a very positive review of @newsbysamuels & @ToluseO’s on George Floyd:

https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist/status/1529128892019232769?s=20&t=QkrwXTZhp6X6Edcw_ZX0Ig

@robgreeneII has a review in @thenation of another important new book, @JeffreyBPerry’s two-volume bio of Hubert Harrison:
thenation.com/article/societ…

Forthcoming in June is @MThaggert’s Riding Jane Crow from @IllinoisPress:

press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=28ns…

& @schwartz_ana’s Unmoored is now available for preorder from @UNC_Press:
uncpress.org/book/978146967…

My newest @SatEvePost Considering History column focuses on the Indian Boarding School Initiative & the violence of “Americanization”:
saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/05/consid…

& I’m gonna end with the week’s most fun piece, @WithEdSimon for @JSTOR_Daily on T.S. Eliot & Groucho Marx:
daily.jstor.org/all-male-cats-…

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more pieces, podcasts, publications (especially yours!) below. Thanks & hope it’s a restful, rejuvenative, & reading-full holiday weekend! #twitterstorians