Here it is, my 246th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all!
Articles:
Starting with a few favorites as usual, including Shane Little for The Helsinki Notebooks on Thyra Edwards’ anti-fascism (h/t Kasper Braskén who shared this piece in comments on last week’s thread which I really appreciate).
Dobrota Pucherová wrote for The Public Domain Review on the multi-era translations & experiences of the first Slovak novel.
For The Many-Headed Monster’s continuing series on the book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England, Mark Hailwood wrote on workers’ winter preparations.
Two open-access articles to share this week, including Rachel Rich, Lisa Wynne Smith, Sarah Fox, & Adam Crymble for The Historical Journal on food & masculinity in George III’s monarchy.
Also open-access is Aviel Roshwald for Ethnopolitics on imperialism as a midwife of nationalism.
& check out this important new digital resource, archival material from the UK branch of the 1970s Gay Liberation Front.
Turning to AmericanStudies articles, two great pieces from David S. Rotenstein this week, including a Halloween special for Next Pittsburgh on the city’s haunted cemeteries.
David S. Rotenstein also wrote for LinkNKY on whether Northern Kentucky’s vice history is good for the region’s business.
Compelling work from Anthony F. Hall for New York Almanack on the state’s Lake George region between the World Wars.
Fascinating Commonplace journal essay from Ariel Ron on how Eli Whitney single-handedly started the Civil War–& why that’s not true.
For the AHA’s Perspectives blog, Bruce W. Dearstyne wrote about Teddy Roosevelt’s relationship to the historical discipline.
Five pieces from Saturday Evening Post colleagues to share this week, including Teresa Bitler on Jack the Ripper tourism in the U.S.
Tanya Roth wrote for her Post Women’s Work column on the long fraught story of witchcraft in American history.
Also for Spooky Season, Post editor Troy Brownfield highlighted American horror authors who published in the Post.
Here’s Kristine Esser Slentz for the Post on the evolution of the American coffee shop.
Finally for the Post, Andy Hollandbeck’s In a Word column celebrated National Dictionary Day.
Current Events:
Turning to current events, Dan Vergano wrote for Scientific American on the strange saga of Texas lawmakers’ attempt to move & probably destroy the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle.
Vital reporting for ProPublica from Nicole Foy (photographs by Sarahbeth Maney) on U.S. citizens who have been detained by immigration agents.
Excellent piece from Einav Rabinovitch-Fox for The Guardian on the not-so secret language of fascist fashion.
Kelly Hayes wrote for her Organizing My Thoughts site on how she & her Chicago neighbors showed up to resist ICE.
While Geraldo Cadava wrote for The New Yorker on those conflicts on the Chicago streets.
Apropos of those conflicts & the #NoKings protests as well, here’s Brittany Wong for HuffPost on why the Portland Protest Frog is so good at trolling Trump.
For The Guardian, David Smith interviewed Jelani Cobb about his new essay collection on race & justice in Trump’s America.
Inspiring work from Alex Russell for Letters & Science magazine on how scholars & teachers built a LGBTQ+ curriculum to meet state standards.
Finally, for The Writer’s Chronicle’s The Big Conversation Douglas Dechow talked with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Hannah Grieco, Anna Leahy, & Nora K. Rivera on AI & the writing classroom.
Podcasts:
Lots of great new podcast episodes this week, including episode 70 of Kate Carpenter’s Drafting the Past, featuring Tracy Slater on finding her footing as a narrative historian.
For KPFA’s Against the Grain podcast, Marcus Rediker joined to discuss his new book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea.
Two new episodes of Alycia Asai’s Civics & Coffee podcast this week, including her interview with Shae Corey on religion, oral history, & public memory in D.C.
& for the usual Saturday new episode, Civics & Coffee highlighted the story of the servant girl annihilator, America’s first serial killer.
For the new episode of his America: A History podcast, Liam Heffernan was joined by Steven Nolt to talk about the history & culture of the Amish.
For the latest episode of the History on Film podcast, Jeffrey Weinstock joined to discuss the cultural history of Monty Python.
For a new episode of the Not Just the Tudors podcast, host Suzannah Lipscomb interviewed Naomi Baker on radical women of the 17th century.
While for episode 6 of their This Ain’t It podcast, Melissa & Matthew Teutsch focused on worship, protest, & the prophetic power of music.
Turning to current events, for her Freedom Over Fascism podcast Stephanie G. Wilson interviewed Courtney Teasley on how we can disrupt mass incarceration.
Over at Micah Sifry’s This Old Democracy podcast, he was joined by NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander to talk about reforming democracy from a candidate’s perspective.
For the new episode of their The Oath & the Office podcast, John Fugelsang & Corey Brettschneider discussed three prosecutions that expose Trump’s self-coup.
& for a slightly older podcast episode that I missed in this space, check out Matt Seybold’s American Vandal conversation with Jeff Sharlet.
Made by History and Black Perspectives:
Three excellent new pieces for Time’s Made By History blog this week, including Joel Zapata on when Woodrow Wilson resegregated the federal government.
Ansley Quiros & Allie R. Lopez wrote for Made By History on the perils of the Supreme Court forgetting the past when it comes to the Voting Rights Act.
& finally for Made By History, Margot Rashba used a new British Museum gala to trace how British fashion has always been about more than just looks.
Over at the AAIHS’s Black Perspectives blog, Ashley Everson interviewed Robert Schwaller about his new article on free Black community in 16th-century Panama.
Books:
Lots of important new scholarly book publications this week, including Patrick Adamson’s Projecting America: The Epic Western & National Mythmaking in 1920s Hollywood from University of Oklahoma Press.
Also out this week is Debra Kaplan & Elisheva Carlebach’s A Woman is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe from Princeton University Press.
Likewise newly published is Katharine Gerbner’s Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion & Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica from Duke University Press.
& for their blog the folks at UNC Press shared four new releases, including books from Renata Keller, Katie Batza, Jason Ezell, & Linda M. Mayhew.
Forthcoming in November & available for pre-order from De Gruyter Brill is my wife Vaughn Joy’s Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy.
While forthcoming in February from the University of Virginia Press is Bryan A. Banks & Cindy Ermus’ edited collection The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today.
Over at the University of California Press’ blog, they interviewed Matthew Morrison about his new book Blacksound (h/t Walter D Greason).
While over at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog, they interviewed Giséle Sapiro about her recent book on literature’s circulation across nations.
For NYU News, they featured stories from Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari’s new essay collection Rituals of Migration: Italians & Irish on the Move.
For the latest USIH book review, David Lebow wrote about Joseph Fishkin & William E. Forbath’s The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy.
While for The Guardian, Charlotte Higgins highlighted Sally Carson’s prophetic 1934 novel Crooked Cross about the rise of Nazism.
Newsletters & Blogs:
Gonna end with excellent newsletters & blog posts as ever, including Sherrilyn Ifill on the vital Section 2s of the Voting Rights Act & the 14th Amendment.
For his Everything is Horrible newsletter, Noah Berlatsky wrote about how both Christofascism & science contributed to the origin of Trump.
Speaking of origins, The Ideas Roadshow wrote about the anti-truth throughlines from Samuel Johnson to CNN.
Over at his Campaign Trails newsletter, Kevin M. Kruse linked critiques of Zohran Mamdani to how Southern whites discussed the first wave of African American mayors.
While for his Civil War Memory newsletter, Kevin M. Levin analyzed the vital new Brick Museum exhibit on Confederate monuments.
Here’s the new installment of Sarah Bond’s Pasts Imperfect newsletter, featuring Lachelle Oglesby on restored Egyptian history & much more.
Over at his Looking Through the Past newsletter, George Dillard wrote about why scurvy has ravaged humanity for centuries.
Wonderful installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American newsletter on the 250th anniversary of the Royal Navy’s destruction of Portland, Maine.
For her Feminist Giant newsletter, Mona Eltahawy wrote movingly about menopause & not feeling like herself but now feeling like Mona.
For his The Big Quiet newsletter, my Fitchburg State colleague Steve Edwards traced his Midwestern childhood’s influence on his writing & voice.
Two new pieces from Etienne Toussaint to share this week, including for The Tenure Track on building an indispensable strategic presence with our work.
While for his Freedom Papers newsletter, Toussaint continued to share his & Robert Monson’s poetic journey through Sinners.
Gonna end with other great cultural studies work as always, including Saeed Jones’s brief & bracing post on Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D’Angelo, & who gets to live a “long” life in America.
For his Interminable Rambling Medium column, Matthew Teutsch wrote about Viktor Frankl & the importance of art as resistance & existence.
Our greatest film reviewer Vern is never better than when writing about our most relevant current films, such as his new review of One Battle After Another.
& speaking of great reviews, check out Vaughn Joy’s latest Spooky Season Review Roulette newsletter, a thoughtful take on Gods & Monsters.
PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more writing & work, podcasts, new & forthcoming books below. Thanks, & happy reading, listening, & learning, all!
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