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What a week to be an AmericanStudier (or an American). But so many folks rose to that challenge & produced great public scholarly writing. To wit, another #ScholarSunday thread on just some of that vital work (share more, please)! #twitterstorians
@SassyProf for @nytimes on Trump & the Lost Cause: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/opinion/trump-confederacy-lost-cause.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Rhae Lynn Barnes & @KeriLeighMerrit for @CNNOpinion on more of Wednesday’s Confederate & neo-Confederate echoes: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/opinions/capitol-riot-confederacy-reconstruction-birth-of-a-nation-merritt-barnes/index.html
@pastpunditry wrote for @CNNOpinion on the parallels between Wednesday & the right-wing violence in Charlottesville in 2017: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/opinions/capitol-violence-charlottesville-antifa-myth-hemmer/index.html
@davidwblight1 for @nytimes about those Lost Cause & white supremacist legacies & how Trumpism could endure: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/opinion/trump-capitol-lost-cause.html?smid=tw-share
@bleachbred wrote for @Medium on those themes: https://medium.com/the-polis/white-privilege-and-white-supremacy-on-display-at-the-us-capitol-5cda0b04a593?sk=803a92745041e5893ab58a256e175115
Blair McClendon for @nplusonemag on John Hawley & lost lost causes: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/lost-lost-causes/
Eric Foner wrote for The Nation on Wednesday's insurrection & the limits of American democracy: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-insurrection-sedition-capitol-coup/
@NPRCodeSwitch interviewed @avitale, author of The End of Policing, about how Wednesday was & wasn’t about the police: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/01/07/613802462/how-the-storming-of-the-capitol-was-and-wasnt-about-police
@megankatenelson has been compiling those & many other public scholarly responses to Wednesday’s insurrection here: http://www.megankatenelson.com/historians-contextualizing-the-capitol-insurrection-a-roundup/
& @megankatenelson herself wrote for @madebyhistory about a Reconstruction context for the insurrection: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/08/1871-provides-roadmap-addressing-wednesdays-pro-trump-insurrection/
For eerie echoes that stretch beyond Wednesday, here’s Saidiya Hartman for @BOMBMagazine on white supremacy, Du Bois' fiction, & the end of the world during the influenza pandemic: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/the-end-of-white-supremacy-an-american-romance/
For what is needed from #highered in such moments, here’s Brian Rosenberg for @chronicle: https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-education-in-a-time-of-insurrection
Speaking of education & history, at @Ideas_History @jnthnwwlsn reviewed Wilfred McClay’s Land of Hope, the #1776commission approved textbook: https://s-usih.org/2021/01/an-america-where-everyone-meant-well/
On the flip side, @BrentNYT wrote about how forgetting our history leads to events like Wednesday’s: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/opinion/capitol-attack-racism-america.html?referringSource=articleShare
& on that note, this week has only amplified the commitment to helping us better remember all of American history I expressed in my New Year's @SatEvePost Considering History column: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/considering-history-lets-remember-all-of-american-history-in-2021/
PS. As ever, please share other great public scholarly writing from (and about) the week, including yours, here! #twitterstorians
Missed my friend @SilasLapham's Medium piece on the new Lost Cause rhetoric: https://interminablerambling.medium.com/the-new-lost-cause-rhetoric-65f295193d6
