Thread by @AmericanStudier

The countdown to 100 continues with my 98th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes & conversations, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians

Starting with a few favorites from the week, including @PamHutch for @guardian on the newest historic figure on US currency, Anna May Wong:
theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/…

Here’s @OBWax for @TIME with a great piece on @mattdelmont’s vital new book:
time.com/6222909/black-…

& here’s @harrisondsmith for @washpost with an obituary for an American as heroic as he was historic:
washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

@sarahchurchwell is a must-read as ever, this time for @TheAtlantic on the layers to Marilyn Monroe beyond the recent film:
theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Great @observer reporting from @Cliopticon & @brimwats on a recovered archive, highlighting work from sexologist Laurie Bennett-Cook (h/t @CarisAdel):
observer.com/2022/10/a-lege…

Turning to current events, here’s @jbouie for his @nytimes column on when & how it already happened here:
nytimes.com/2022/10/18/opi…

Here’s @profsamperry for @PolTheoNetwork on Christian Nationalist natalism:
politicaltheology.com/make-america-m…

Speaking of that extremist movement, @KevinLevin wrote for his newsletter on what we can learn from MTG’s visit to a Civil War battlefield:
kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/what-we-can-…

While @Rowaida_Abdel wrote for @huffpost on how a different far-right nationalist movement is targeting scholars like @AudreyTruschke:
huffpost.com/entry/far-righ…

Great stuff from Nylah Burton for @andscape on the dangers of systemic racism, not Black Southern food (h/t @NewBlackMan):
andscape.com/features/black…

Couple excellent pieces on iconic writers this week, including @KeeangaYamahtta for @NewYorker on the enduring power of Saidiya Hartman’s book:
newyorker.com/books/second-r…

While @LFB27 interviewed the awesome @alexanderchee for @GuernicaMag:
guernicamag.com/alexander-chee…

& here’s an inspiring @BostonDotCom piece from @dia_dwyer on the boom in Boston bookstores:

boston.com/news/business/…

Tons of great podcast episodes this week, including the newest from @Unsung__History featuring @e_b_bobadilla:
unsunghistorypodcast.com/bert-corona/

@axelbankhistory celebrated his 100th episode with @CivicsPod @SR20Pilot & Jeremy of “What to Read Next”:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/axe…

The newest @USAimpressions episode features @Professor_G_T on his book Pedro Pan:

open.spotify.com/episode/4hSHRa…

While @diversityonfire talked with @CiahnanQuinn about his new book Blood at the Root:
diversityonfire.com/podcast/episod…

The great @BFWorldPodcast rolls on, with episode 340 featuring @NicholasGuyatt on War of 1812 POWs:
benfranklinsworld.com/episode-340-ni…

@dianabutlerbass talked with @julieingersoll about how we can understand Christian Nationalism (h/t @crddouglas):
dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/understandin…

@DavidKurlander’s new column on student loans is a podcast follow-up, to a Now & Then episode featuring @Will_Bunch, @HC_Richardson, & @jbf1755:
cafe.com/article/he-who…

For a conversation coming up this afternoon, check out Tamara Payne talking about her co-authored Malcolm X bio on @Gilder_Lehrman’s #BookBreaks (h/t @KeishaBlain):

gilderlehrman.org/programs-and-e…

& check out this @soledadobrien thread on the newly released documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks:

https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1583559797831409664?s=20&t=pcs4YPipo0Ew-bXvQysQPQ

@JeanneTheoharis (on whose book that doc is based) & @sayburgin wrote about the film for @madebyhistory:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Lots of other goodness for @madebyhistory this week as well, including @DrBrandonJett1 on hurricanes & social justice:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Also for @madebyistory, here are @ProfBillB & @erinmyso on the factors in how we see childhood:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

A.S. Dillingham wrote for @madebyhistory on cultural & historical contexts for the LA City Council’s racism:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

@RobertFleegler wrote for @madebyhistory on what the 1990s Contract with America can help us see about the upcoming midterms:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Finally, here are two of the voices behind @madebyhistory & @PENamerica’s education series, @jeremycyoung & @jonfreadom, on book bans & comic book panics:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

A trio of great @BlkPerspectives pieces this week, including @AJCade2nd on the New Orleans Black community during the Civil War:
aaihs.org/dr-louis-charl…

Also for @BlkPerspectives, @Philadelphian91 wrote on marriage & slavery in colonial Venezuela:
aaihs.org/marriage-and-s…

& Jessy Ohl, Shalonda Capers, & Caran Kennedy wrote for @BlkPerspectives on preserving Black joy in public memory:
aaihs.org/toward-the-pre…

Lots of great books out this week, including @emilyctamkin’s Bad Jews from @HarperCollins, which she talked about with @StatesmanWorld:

https://twitter.com/katiestallard/status/1582005115846000642?s=20&t=9wRUPYB4TeEQVxOsxsF5_Q

@CarolineEGrego’s Hurricane Jim Crow is out from @UNC_Press:

https://twitter.com/CarolineEGrego/status/1582170825049837571?s=20&t=dNe575cSAlHnZr5PK8SmIg

While @sjstanfield1800’s Rewriting Citizenship is out from @UGAPress:

https://twitter.com/sjstanfield1800/status/1582392016305954817?s=20&t=Buu3_iR4tAbfbJwsKxaMHw

Also out is the edited collection The Human in Superhuman from @RLPGBooks (h/t @WalterDGreason):

https://twitter.com/WalterDGreason/status/1581987940938711040?s=20&t=9wRUPYB4TeEQVxOsxsF5_Q

Here’s @ZeringueMarshal on another recent publication, @elahrvivaz’s Writing Islands:

newreads.blogspot.com/2022/10/writin…

Forthcoming soon from @UNC_Press is Christina Green’s Free Joan Little (h/t @CharlesLHughes2):

https://twitter.com/CharlesLHughes2/status/1583495846292660224?s=20&t=pcs4YPipo0Ew-bXvQysQPQ

& check out this @lithub excerpt of @marydudziak’s contribution to the newly published After Life (h/t @KeriLeighMerrit):
lithub.com/what-statistic…

Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week, including another piece for @lithub, @monstersamerica on horror & the American century:
lithub.com/at-the-lonely-…

Speaking of horror, here’s @MathiasClasen of @RecFearLab for @ThePublicSquare on how it helps our brains:
zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/10/20/how…

& y’all know I couldn’t resist @maudnewton for @NYTMag on that most inclusive of all pronouns:
nytimes.com/2022/10/18/mag…

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so add more writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books—especially yours!—below. Thanks & happy reading, all! #twitterstorians

Really good stuff! Perhaps not coincidentally, this is the piece out of all my online writing to date that got the most angry & hateful pushback from far-right trolls & sites:
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/mckinney-…