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Looking for reading material to help you stay comfy & warm on this frigid January day? Well, it’s easy as another #ScholarSunday morning thread of public scholarly work from the last week! #twitterstorians
Great @benbarber96 interview of @AngieMaxwell1 for @facingsouth on countering the “Long Southern Strategy”: https://www.facingsouth.org/2021/01/political-scientist-angie-maxwell-countering-long-southern-strategy
& an equally vital @FAIRmediawatch interview w/ @KeriLeighMerrit on the Lost Cause: https://fair.org/home/the-lost-cause-has-in-some-ways-won-the-civil-war/
& one more excellent interview, @nhannahjones w/ @VelshiMSNBC on Mike Pompeo’s departing attacks on multicultural America: https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/nikole-hannah-jones-the-erasure-of-history-is-how-you-veer-towards-fascism-99921989619
@robgreeneII wrote a couple wonderful pieces this week. This one for @madebyhistory on Warnock’s victory & Black churches: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/18/warnocks-election-reminds-us-that-black-churches-are-vital-democratic-success/
& this one for @jacobinmag on the life & legacy of Hank Aaron, on & especially off the diamond: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/hank-aaron-obituary-baseball-home-run-record
Compelling @Crystallynnweb piece for @madebyhistory on race & girlhood in America: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/22/white-americans-have-weaponized-idea-girlhood/
My @Fitchburg_State colleague & friend Sean Goodlett wrote his first piece for @ArcDigi, on the Jacobin-era France parallels to our current GOP: https://arcdigital.media/our-jacobin-moment-1a7a13b015cb
A lot of excellent #twitterstorians responses to the execrable #1776Commission report. Here’s the great @DainaRameyBerry for @Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dainarameyberry/2021/01/19/the-biden-administration-could-usher-in-a-new-era-of-teaching-american-history/?sh=292fe7746064
Important thread from @HilaryGreen77 on books to read instead of the report (which will be even easier now that it’s been taken off the WH website!): https://twitter.com/HilaryGreen77/status/1351315721935065090?s=20
Here’s @craigbrucesmith for @politico: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/22/biden-trump-1776-commission-461483
Here’s @KevinMKruse for @MSNBCDaily: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/trump-administration-s-thinly-veiled-rebuke-1619-project-sloppy-racist-n1254807
& here’s a thread of mine on the report’s despicable depictions of educators: https://twitter.com/AmericanStudier/status/1351542689393745920?s=20
Finally, to complement @TheAmandaGorman’s justifiably lauded Inaugural poem, here’s a complementary poem from the great @jerichobrown: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/magazine/inaugural-an-original-poem.html?smid=tw-share
& finally finally, as we try to gear up for a new semester, this @PedagogyAmLitSt roundtable from November remains timely & helpful: https://teachingpals.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/pals-roundtable-digital-teaching-strategies-in-a-pandemic/
PS. I’m sure I missed plenty of great pieces, so share ‘em (including yours), please! #twitterstorians
