[The most significant part of my work this fall was the launch of my first public scholarly podcast, The Celestials’ Last Game: Baseball, Bigotry, and the Battle for America. A lot of factors helped make that work possible, so for my annual Thanksgiving series I wanted to express my gratitude to a handful of them!]
As I hope
all of my work over the last few years has made clear, including this blog and
my #ScholarSunday threads
and much else besides, public scholarly community and conversation are
consistently central to everything I do. Often that means sharing other folks’
work, but sometimes it means highlighting scholarly models for what I’m trying
to do with my own projects. In the case of this project, as I discussed in
Wednesday’s post, the lack of definitive historical information meant that I
had to think about whether and how to fill in and fill out those histories with
some narrative, with imaginative storytelling to complement the sources. And in
so doing I had a great public scholarly model, one that I overtly talked about
in one of my episodes: Saidiya
Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. I was inspired both
by the ways Hartman works to create the perspectives and identities of her
focal historical subjects and by the moments where she brings her own
perspective and voice into the conversation, and I hope I did justice to both
of those elements in my podcast. I’d be grateful if you shared your thoughts at
any point!
November
Recap this weekend,
Ben
PS. So one
more time: I’d be thankful if you’d check out the podcast and let me know your
thoughts!
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