(Original tweet can be found here.)
This pretty much sums up January. Let’s just say that the Capitol insurrection has weighed so heavily on me that it has been hard to focus. Even harder to focus, that is. Like, remember when it was just pandemic related anxiety that was messing me up? I miss those days. Seems so quaint now that a criminal conspiracy to undermine the nation’s democratic institutions is coming into view, along with a renewed ideological and racist attempt to (re-)disenfranchise millions of voters.
I did find some time to read some important stuff connected to my slavery project. It sounds crazy to say that I took solace in the events of the Civil War, but since I was reading about Black resistance and white planter panic, I kind of did.
As for the ‘other stuff'…the football turned to shit pretty quickly, didn’t it? I mean, the Reds were top of the league and then they weren’t. Anyway, onwards and upwards, right?
The Academics
Kevin Levin, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).
Farah Peterson, “Expounding the Constitution,” Yale Law Journal 130, no. 1 (2020), 2-84.
David Silkenat, Driven from Home: North Carolina’s Civil War Refugee Crisis (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016).
Leslie A. Schwalm, “US Slavery, Civil War, and the Emancipation of Enslaved Mothers,” Slavery & Abolition 38, no. 2 (2017), 392-407.
Amy Dru Stanley, “Instead of Waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: The War Power, Slave Marriage, and Inviolate Human Rights,” American Historical Review 115, no. 3 (June, 2010), 732-65.
Michael E. Woods, "'Tell Us Something About States Rights': Northern Republicans, States' Rights, and the Coming of the Civil War," Journal of the Civil War Era 7, no. 2 (June, 2017), 242-68.
Kevin Waite, “The Slave South In the Far West: California, The Pacific, And Proslavery Visions Of Empire,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2016.
Charlotte Rosen and Matthew Guariglia, “Disciplining The City: Scholarship And The Carceral State Year In Review 2020,” The Metropole.
Joseph P. Reidy, Illusions of Empire: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).
Ira Katznelson and Ewa Atanassow, “Negotiating the Rule of Law: Dilemmas of Security and Liberty Revisited,” in Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac, ed., States of Exception in American History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 39-67.
Alexandra Havrylyshyn, “Troublesome Trials: How a Parisian Legal Practitioner Disrupted the Order of New France,” William and Mary Quarterly 3d Ser., 78, no. 1 (January, 2021), 45-78.
Clare Zalc, “Discretionary Power in the Hands of an Authoritarian State: A Study of Denaturalizations Under the Vichy Regime,” Journal of Modern History 92, no. 4 (December, 2020), 817-858.
S. Paul O'Hara, Inventing the Pinkertons; or Spies, Sleuths, Merceneraries, and Thugs: being a Story of the the Nation's Most Famous (and Infamous) Detective Agency (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), 1-72.
William J. Novak, “The American Law of Overruling Necessity: The Exceptional Origins of the State Police Power,” in in Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac, ed., States of Exception in American History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 95-122.
Gregory P. Downs, “Powers of War in Time of Peace: Emergency Powers in the United States after the End of the Civil War,” in Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac, ed., States of Exception in American History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 154-77.
Joel Isaac, “Constitutional Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century American Political Thought,” in in Gary Gerstle and Joel Isaac, ed., States of Exception in American History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 225-56.
Anita Krishnakumar, The Multiple Faces of Textualism, JOTWELL (January 15, 2021) (reviewing Tara Leigh Grove, Which Textualism?, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 265 (2020)), https://lex.jotwell.com/the-multiple-faces-of-textualism/.
The non-academic stuff: food, footy, etc. (You’ll note a despairing theme by the third week of January…)
The Coaches Voice, “Steven Gerard: Coaches Watch,” The Coaches Voice, January 13, 2021, https://www.coachesvoice.com/rangers-liverpool-steven-gerrard/
Mari Lewis, “Why is Liverpool’s Poor Form So Hard to Take,” The Liverpool Offside, January 22, 2021.
Mari Lewis, “Former Liverpool Player’s Post Centers the Importance of Mental Health Support During the Pandemic,” The Liverpool Offside, January 22, 2021.
Raphael Honigstein, “Intense practice, total belief and a slap: How Klopp handles a struggling team,” The Athletic, January 22, 2021.
Lewis Bassett, “F*ck Fine Dining,” Vittles, January 25, 2021.
Jill Filipovic, “In defense of Lauren Wolfe,” jill.substack.com, January 25, 2021
James Pierce and Si Hughes, “How Klopp’s Liverpool went from invincible to vulnerable,” The Athletic, January 26, 2021.
Caiomhe O’Neill, “Ben Woodburn: From breaking Michael Owen’s record to back in the Liverpool U23s,” The Athletic, January 29, 2021.