Thread by @AmericanStudier

Here it is, my 93rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast eps & convos, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians

Starting with two thoughtful pieces for #September11, including @lutzfernandez for @Medium on teaching (on) such days:
medium.com/@lutzfernandez…

& here’s @TenuredRadical for her newsletter on collective memories & forgettings:
clairepotter.substack.com/p/will-it-alwa…

Speaking of collective memories & forgettings, @KenBurns @LynnNovick & @sbotstein wrote for @latimes on their new Holocaust documentary & American antisemitism:
latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Turning to current events, here’s @IwriteOK for @newlinesmag on how Portland has combatted white nationalism (h/t @MHPoison1):
newlinesmag.com/argument/how-p…

@PriyaSatia wrote for @TIME on the British monarchy & the climate crisis:
time.com/6212672/queen-…

Also in @TIME, @lisquart penned a moving tribute to the great Barbara Ehrenreich (h/t the @econhardship project that Ehrenreich helped originate):
time.com/6211712/rememb…

For the legacy of another public scholarly journalist, Andre Forget wrote for @BulwarkOnline on the 100th anniversary of Walter Lippman’s Public Opinion:
thebulwark.com/public-opinion…

Here’s @Lollardfish for @CNNOpinion on what the Columbia controversy reminds us about the scam that is college rankings:
cnn.com/2022/09/14/opi…

@AdamSerwer for @TheAtlantic is a must-read as ever, this time on the racist criticisms of fantasy stories like @LOTRonPrime:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Excellent @TNLookout piece about the possibility of adding lynching sites to the @NatlParkService (h/t @lynchingsites):
tennesseelookout.com/2022/09/12/con…

& for a new digital site of memory, check out this story on a compelling addition to @etsu’s Archives of Appalachia (h/t @CarisAdel):

etsu.edu/etsu-news/2022…

Lots of great podcast eps & convos this week, including @Unsung__History’s newest featuring @CorneliaDayton on abortion in colonial New England:
unsunghistorypodcast.com/sarah-grosveno…

Really proud of my former @Fitchburg_State student @Ross_Caputi, featured here alongside Scott Spaulding on the @fortressonahill podcast:

fortressonahill.com/2022/09/11/the…

Vital @NPR @MorningEdition conversation with @sandylocks on the history of #CRT:
npr.org/2022/09/13/112…

@Ebonyteach talked race in fantasy with @samsanders for @vulture’s Into It podcast:

open.spotify.com/episode/59SvL6…

While @DrIbram talked about his new book with @CapehartJ for @PostLive:
washingtonpost.com/washington-pos…

& it’s a few years old, but this @NPR Codeswitch episode on the “Reverse Freedom Rides” is frustratingly relevant at the moment:
npr.org/2019/12/10/786…

@madebyhistory covered those histories too, with this great piece from @gbrockell & Jodie Tillman:
washingtonpost.com/history/2022/0…

& see also this @madebyhistory column from Domenic Vitiello:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Just a couple of the many great @madebyhistory posts this week, including @jperillo1 with the newest in the @PENamerica series on threats to education:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Also for @madebyhistory, here are @JulioCapoJr & @TylerMTG on the colonial contexts for “Florida Man”:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Also also for @madebyhistory, here’s @tjward98 on the Jackson water crisis:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

& finally for @madebyhistory, @DrMikeAmezcua wrote about Mexican independence celebrations in the US:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

All week @BlkPerspectives has featured an excellent roundtable on #BlackBuffalo, kicked off with this on segregation from @Maceo13:
aaihs.org/the-long-histo…

@StevePerazaPhD continued the #BlackBuffalo roundtable with this on teaching massacres:
aaihs.org/teaching-massa…

@VWidgeon wrote on white violence for the #BlackBuffalo roundtable:
aaihs.org/white-violence…

@AnnaBlatto on the public policies that led to the city’s segregation for the #BlackBuffalo roundtable:
aaihs.org/how-public-pol…

& @jcoley716 concluded the #BlackBuffalo roundtable with a bracing & vital piece on segregation’s effects on food deserts:
aaihs.org/black-buffalo-…

So many great new books to highlight this week, starting with @lorgia_pena’s Translating Blackness from @DukePress:

dukeupress.edu/translating-bl…

Here’s @robgreeneII for @thenation on @imaniperry’s South to America from @HarperCollins:
thenation.com/article/societ…

@abbylgoode’s Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability is now out from @UNC_Press:

newreads.blogspot.com/2022/09/agroto…

@ChrisEhrick shared the news that Chaz Yingling’s first book, Siblings of Soil, is out from @UTexasPress:

https://twitter.com/ChrisEhrick/status/1569358630083870721?s=20&t=EQwSY9UMZw_T41IK8wlaNw

@helenjinkim has a couple upcoming panels for the recently published Race for Revival from @OxUniPress:

https://twitter.com/helenjinkim/status/1568048889516773378?s=20&t=EQwSY9UMZw_T41IK8wlaNw

@andreina_rodrgz of @DomWriters interviewed @jasminnemendez about her new book Islands Apart from @artepublico:
dominicanwriters.com/post/jasminne-…

Also tons of great forthcoming books to share, including @Professor_G_T's Operation Pedro Pan now available for pre-order from @PotomacBooks:

https://twitter.com/PotomacBooks/status/1569342342078799872?s=20&t=EQwSY9UMZw_T41IK8wlaNw

@KeriLeighMerrit reminds us that #AfterLife is also available for pre-order & just a couple weeks from publication from @haymarketbooks:

https://twitter.com/KeriLeighMerrit/status/1570779729388773377?s=20&t=8BcoqH1PSM-aqxy5vv0sJw

@BostonJoan @EmilyDreyfuss & Brian Friedberg shared an excerpt from their upcoming book Meme Wars with @TheAtlantic:
theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

& I’m so proud of my @Fitchburg_State colleague & friend @katisjewell & her @FSU_ehps students whose joint publication Constructing History is now available in both hard copy & digital form:

https://twitter.com/katisjewell/status/1569332959001313281?s=20&t=3ielPyjAc2IWkBAbx56fLg

Gonna end with a few favorites from the week, including this Harlem Renaissance jigsaw puzzle featuring the work of @DavarianBaldwin:

https://twitter.com/DavarianBaldwin/status/1570915842174627841?s=20&t=WvlAL-IOzEGawOuUUAN2iQ

@Hugh_Ryan wrote for @ElectricLit on how writing his community’s history can help him & us all shape a better future:
electricliterature.com/writing-my-com…

& @emmastraub wrote a moving remembrance about her father, the hugely talented novelist Peter Straub, for @vulture:
vulture.com/article/peter-…

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more writing, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books (especially your own!) below. Thanks and happy reading, all! #twitterstorians

@Ellak96 shares @dereksmcgrath's latest video on Poe's "The Raven," part of his Am Lit lecture series:

Also adding this bracing & crucial piece from @brdemuth & @oliviaebertz:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

Argh, that should be @jperrillo1!

@librarianhorror adds the forthcoming paperback edition of the collection William Blake's Gothic Imagination:
barnesandnoble.com/w/william-blak…

Adding the newest @USAimpressions episode, with the trio following up @gvaughnjoy's uber-viral thread to talk more about Hollywood histories, the Courts and corporations, and more!
open.spotify.com/episode/2x9Rcp…