Thread by @AmericanStudier

As we rest, reflect, & remember on this holiday weekend, here’s my 129th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to help ya do all three! Enjoy, & share more below, please. #twitterstorians

Starting with a few favorites from the week as usual, including @ehphd’s delightful thread of some of the best Tina Turner scholarship in honor of the icon’s passing:

https://twitter.com/ehphd/status/1661488820510941184?s=20

Taryn White wrote for @SmithsonianMag on Edna Lewis, the mother of soul food:

smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/e…

Also for @SmithsonianMag, Peter Mancall writes on the 400thanniversary of America’s first war crime:
smithsonianmag.com/history/was-th…

& here’s @meghanetinsley for @Nature on scientists’ role in decolonizing humanities & the academy:
nature.com/articles/d4158…

Carolyn Eastman wrote for @Slate on why historians are indeed like detectives (h/t @SonyaBonczek):
slate.com/news-and-polit…

While @MelissaMayBorja wrote for @ImmanentFrame on Hmong Americans & religious identities:
tif.ssrc.org/2023/05/24/wha…

& @SilasLapham's blog is a must-read as ever, this time on communing with James Baldwin while leading a student trip to France:
interminablerambling.medium.com/communing-with…

Turning to current events, here’s @bleachbred for @Medium on Tommy Tuberville & white supremacy (one of his many excellent pieces from the week):

medium.com/the-polis/tomm…

Phenomenal, comprehensive @DefectorMedia piece on #WGAstrong from @k_trendacosta:
defector.com/the-writers-ar…

@EleniSchirmer & @louise_seamster wrote for @nytopinion on the fundamentally flawed Supreme Court case against student debt relief:
nytimes.com/2023/05/26/opi…

Also for @nytopinion, great stuff from @jbouie on the real threat to freedom in 2023 America:
nytimes.com/2023/05/26/opi…

Important work from @WordsByWillis for @MercuryVirginia on a historic Virginia Black culture that the current attacks on education would have us forget:

https://twitter.com/WordsByWillis/status/1660701741183057944?s=20

Speaking of histories we need to remember, @DrJasonJohnson talked with @marthasjones_ for @Slate on the Johns Hopkins Hard Histories project:
slate.com/podcasts/a-wor…

& @WalterDGreason shared two resources for such collective education & memory, including @UMNews’ Back to Indigenous Futures:
sites.google.com/umn.edu/cataly…

& also check out the Mississippi River Open School for Kinship & Social Exchange (h/t @WalterDGreason once again):
mississippiriver.school

Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including @Unsung__History featuring Susan Wels on Oneida:
unsunghistorypodcast.com/oneida/

For the newest episode of @cafedotcom’s Now & Then, @jbf1755 & @HC_Richardson concluded their two-part series on wellness:
cafe.com/now-and-then/t…

The latest episode of @HerbertHistory’s #HATM podcast features @kathleen_belew on Con Air:

https://twitter.com/HerbertHistory/status/1661355882083504130?s=20

@kjavadizadeh’s Close Readings has finally gotten to Emily Dickinson, featuring @johannawinant on “My life had stood—a Loaded Gun—“:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

@sarahesocoff has launched the new Sounds Gay podcast, with episode one featuring @CarisAdel on CCM:
pod.link/1686975383

The latest episode of @hoosier_victory’s What the Gerrymander? features @SimonWDC:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sim…

For #SABRcast @robneyer talked with @NegroLeagueMan about all things Black baseball in America:

https://twitter.com/NegroLeagueMan/status/1660749430671245312?s=20

& speaking of sports media, @richarddeitsch’s podcast of that name featured our greatest TV reviewer, the one & only @sepinwall:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spo…

Great stuff for @madebyhistory this week, including James Paligutan on better remembering Filipino Americans during #AAPIHeritageMonth:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

@gilletgr wrote for @madebyhistory on the fraught convergence of public housing & surveillance:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

While @DuncanHosie wrote for @madebyhistory on a new but familiar push to expand the death penalty:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Here’s @ComedoErgoSum for @madebyhistory on the benefits of mandatory date labels on food:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Also for @madebyhistory, @kmp5440 reviewed the new Netflix series The Diplomat:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

& finally for @madebyhistory, here are @vanessajdiaz & Petra Rivera-Rideau on Bad Bunny’s historic headlining set at Coachella:
washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Over at @BlkPerspectives, @jafariallen concluded the Roundtable on There’s a Disco Ball Between Us with a thoughtful response:
aaihs.org/a-response-to-…

Also for @BlkPerspectives, here’s @kbphd08 on Black resistance & slave politics in Georgia:
aaihs.org/black-resistan…

While Ryan W. Keating wrote for @BlkPerspectives on social welfare & politics in the post-Civil War South:
aaihs.org/social-welfare…

& finally for @BlkPerspectives, @RayJDinsmore reviewed @ejwestuk’s new book on the Black press in Chicago from @IllinoisPress:
aaihs.org/the-defender-a…

Speaking of new books, @MelissaSevigny’s Brave the Wild River is now out from @wwnorton:

https://twitter.com/MelissaSevigny/status/1661040109880487937?s=20

Also out this week is @SandyDarity, @Lucas_A_Hubbard & A. Kirsten Mullen’s The Black Reparations Project from @ucpress (h/t @WalterDGreason)
ucpress.edu/book/978052038…

Now available as a free e-book is @KeeangaYamahtta, @Kaepernick7, & Robin D.G. Kelley’s Our History Has Always Been Contraband from @haymarketbooks:

https://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1661394120672247809?s=20

Now available for pre-order is @XanderManshel’s Writing Backwards from @ColumbiaUP:
cup.columbia.edu/book/writing-b…

& also available for pre-order is @blackleftaf’s Black Scare/Red Scare from @UChicagoPress:

https://twitter.com/blackleftaf/status/1661396266436251648?s=20

Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week, including @TheTattooedProf for @chronicle on why we shouldn’t return to pedagogical “rigor”:
chronicle.com/article/why-ca…

Here’s @BenBurgis for @jacobin on working-class cinema & the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist:
jacobin.com/2023/05/salt-o…

& check out @barrettbeatrice’s excellent Guest Post for my blog on Americana, family history, the great Black painter Robert Butler, & more:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2023/05/may-27…

I was proud to contribute to @facinghistory’s new resource for students & teachers on the legacies of Chinese exclusion:
facinghistory.org/ideas-week/con…

I also had a chance to contribute to @Ben_Finley’s excellent @AP column on the multiple, contested meanings of #MemorialDay:
apnews.com/article/memori…

Finally, here’s my new @SatEvePost Considering History column, bringing together #MemorialDay & #AAPIHeritageMonth:
saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/05/consid…

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so add more writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below, please. Happy reading, listening, & learning, & may it be a restful & reflective holiday weekend for us all! #twitterstorians