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Ben Railton Profile picture
@AmericanStudier
Apr 30 • 50 tweets • 35 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
What do you get for a 125th anniversary? It’s your lucky day, ‘cause the answer is my 125th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians
Starting with a few favorites from the week as usual, including @felixmooreactor for @PinkNews on an early fight for trans rights (h/t @DamselDystopia):
thepinknews.com/2023/04/24/san…
While @AaronLecklider wrote for @Slate on a fascinating discovery about queer history long in the making:
slate.com/human-interest…
Here’s @DrKarenLCox for @MSFreePress on a tragic & historic night club fire in 1940 Natchez:
mississippifreepress.org/32719/rhythm-n…
& here’s @latecrisis for @RadHistReview’s The Abusable Past series on the history of “outside agitators”:
radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/o…
Gonna share two of the many excellent obituaries to the legendary Harry Belafonte, including @craftingmystyle for @NPR:
npr.org/2023/04/25/117…
& here’s @NicholsUprising for @thenation on Belafonte’s radicalism:
thenation.com/article/cultur…
Turning to current events, here’s @steviehertz for @TheEconomist on the Comstock Law & 21st century abortion policies:
economist.com/the-economist-…
While @Sacrobosco2013 wrote for @nursingclio on the long history of medication abortions (h/t @C19Americanists)
nursingclio.org/2023/04/26/pen…
Here’s @bleachbred for @Medium on white gun violence & the contemporary right:

medium.com/the-polis/ralp…
@WesleyLowery is a must-read for @CJR on objectivity & the media:
cjr.org/analysis/a-tes…
As is @danroyles for @thebafflermag on teaching in DeSantis’ Florida:
thebaffler.com/latest/the-des…
@BrentNYT wrote for his @nytopinion column on our gradual move away from the deification of Robert E. Lee (h/t @WalterDGreason):
nytimes.com/2023/04/27/opi…
& @sally_holloway highlighted the great new @FoundlingMuseum online exhibition “Tokens of History”:

Lots of excellent new podcast episodes this week, including @Unsung__History’s latest featuring Mary Kuhn:
unsunghistorypodcast.com/19th-century-p…
@Early_Am_Lit’s Digital Media Editor talked with the guest editors of a Phillis Wheatley special issue for the journal’s podcast:

The latest episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast features @robgreeneII & @frebodar on @StarTrek:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/his…
While @jbf1755 & @HC_Richardson’s new episode of @cafedotcom’s Now & Then focused on Supreme Court scandals:
cafe.com/now-and-then/s…
& as usual, @DavidKurlander followed up that episode with an excellent new Time Machine post:
cafe.com/article/a-very…
Finally, check out this @SchomburgCenter discussion featuring AK Lovelace, Kayin Bann, & Marley Alburez on Afrofuturism (h/t @prof_carrington):
Tons of great work for @madebyhistory this week, including @PiaBeumer on yet another racist shooting:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…
@GayHistoryProf wrote for @madebyhistory on contemporary echoes of the Lavender Scare:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…
@TamikaYNunley wrote for @madebyhistory on how current court decisions are replicating ideas from slavery era:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…
While @TheOtherRBG wrote for @madebyhistory on the longstanding debates over Sunday postal service:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…
& finally for @madebyhistory, @MattDallek wrote about a prior influential officeholder from Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…
@BlkPerspectives featured another great roundtable this week, focusing on Black military families in the 19C & kicked off by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.:
aaihs.org/black-soldiers…
Barbara A. Gannon wrote for the @BlkPerspectives roundtable on Black burials & Civil War forgetting in Florida:
aaihs.org/black-burials-…
While @AJCade2nd wrote for the @BlkPerspectives roundtable on the families of the Louisiana Native Guards:
aaihs.org/the-families-o…
& here’s @HilaryGreen77 for the @BlkPerspectives roundable on correcting the anti-Black commemorative landscape of Harrisburg:
aaihs.org/correcting-the…
Finally, Pinheiro concluded the roundtable by interviewing Brandi Brimmer on her recent book from @DukePress:
aaihs.org/black-women-an…
Speaking of great scholarly books, @ProfKori’s new edition of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents for @broadviewpress is now available for digital purchase:

@ErikLinstrum’s Age of Emergency is now out from @OUPHistory:

@JenniferVEvans’ The Queer Art of History is now out from @DukePress, & subject of this excellent thread of hers:

Also recently released is @WriteSBlackwood’s The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records from @lsupress:

lsupress.org/books/detail/r…
Likewise out now is @hystericalblkns’ Ordinary Notes from @MacmillanUSA:

& check out @jennydeluxe profiling @hystericalblkns for @NYTmag:
nytimes.com/2023/04/26/mag…
@yalepress shared the good news that Ned Blackhawk’s vital The Rediscovery of America is a @PublishersWkly’s Book of the Week:

& here’s a @PublishersWkly starred review of @colindickey’s forthcoming book from @PenguinBooks:
publishersweekly.com/978-0-593-2994…
Ana Schwartz talked about her new book Unmoored for the @NewBooksNetwork (h/t @UNC_Press):
newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-pa…
@Lollardfish wrote for @washingtonpost's @BookWorld on @anndaraabrams’ important new book on Advanced Placement classes:
washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/…
While @MsMagazine interviewed @AnneliseOrleck1 on her new book from @BeaconPressBks (h/t @KeishaBlain):
msmagazine.com/2023/04/27/sto…
@MMBrussell shared this vital forthcoming work on totalitarianism from @sarahkendzior & her @gaslitnation co-host @AndreaChalupa:

& also forthcoming, this coming Tuesday in fact, is @SaRoseCav’s Mind Over Monsters from @BeaconPressBks:

Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week, including @LSTateAuthor interviewing the poet & scholar @NoraNadj:
leslietate.com/2023/04/24/172…
Great @ChurchLifeND essay from @LuElla_DAmico on joy in the Wizard of Oz:

While @EdwardECurtisIV concluded #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth with this wonderful essay for @belt_magazine:
beltmag.com/moses-of-cairo…
& finally, speaking of #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth, my newest @SatEvePost Considering History column highlighted New York’s Little Syria neighborhood:
saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/04/consid…
PS. Even though I’ve been doing this for 125 weeks (!) now, I’m sure I still missed plenty of goodness, so share more public scholarship & publications of all kinds below, please. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & see ya when
Adding @queenie4rmnola for @Medium's Antagonist Magazine on the Moms of Liberty & the Daughters of the Confederacy:
medium.com/the-antagonist…
& adding the latest @yalepress podcast, featuring Ned Blackhawk talking about his new book:

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