Dr. Deirdre Lyons

Don’t miss Silyane Larcher's essay on the rise of neo-fascism in the French Caribbean out now in T134. Read the whole essay online: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/… @SilyaneLarcher

@caycarbs Right there with you. It will happen!!

@school_tales As an undergraduate I remember really loving Timothy Tackett’s When the King Took Flight in my history of the French Revolution class. It was very accessible and well written.

#twitterstorians: what is your favorite historical monograph *that you think is an especially lucid & accessible example of the genre/form*? I want students to grapple w/the monograph as a particular kind of historical writing & want to give them good examples. Any field is fine!

@sohini_6 @Rituparna37 Thanks for this suggestion! I definitely want to incorporate methods works from outside my own field, my students will have a broad range of thematic, chronological, and sub-field interests.

@deirdretlyons @Rituparna37 Manan A. Asif's "The loss of hindustan: The invention of India" Its a book that focuses on rethinking colonial historiography and attempts to understand political forgetting

#Twitterstorians I’m teaching a graduate Historical Methods course in the fall for MA students writing theses. I’m designing the class along the themes of archival problems: erasure, marginalization, silence, etc. What are some favorite recent works you’d recommend we read?

@batb0ld Thank you!

@deirdretlyons I saw someone recommend Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on another thread. I haven’t read A Midwife’s Tale but really enjoyed the Age of Homespun!

@JavierFGaleano @CaraKinnally Thank you! Looks amazing.

@CaraKinnally @deirdretlyons Turning archival, duke press dukeupress.edu/turning-archiv…

@giovannettipr Fantastic suggestions. Thank you!

@deirdretlyons My two cents. Lara Putnam's 2016 AHR piece deals with the "shadows" of the digital turn. Joan Flores-Villalobos "Freak Letters" in Small Axe. I have used them both in my Research Forum class which is for MA students.

@BoehmLisa Great choice! Thank you

@deirdretlyons I love A Midwife’s Tale and the film of the same topic.

@monicaMedHist This is so cool! I love this idea, thank you!

@deirdretlyons Most of the responses you've gotten are on modern topics. I propose the concept of the #BiologicalArchive, arguing that it's possible to retrieve not only the histories of microscopic organisms but, via them, the histories of regions hitherto invisible. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/12…

@ayrshire_AFHS Thank you! I am hoping that the students respond to it. Methods can be tricky I think, but with this fantastic thread of suggestions I hope it will go over well.

@deirdretlyons Good luck with class! I always used to worry about how HM classes would play, but students seemed to really engage. (Not my teaching for sure!)

@spacey_lords Thank you!

@ayrshire_AFHS Great reminder. Thanks!

@deirdretlyons I'm thinking Dorothy Thompson's classic work on Chartism in Britain? For example: Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation.

@telekineticrose @toniasutherland Thank you for the suggestion!

@deirdretlyons “Archival Amnesty” by Tonia Sutherland @toniasutherland

@LauraAdderley @TulaneHistory As a social historian, “great social history” are magic words for me. Thank you! I can’t wait to read it.

@deirdretlyons I am not sure where this fits but my "gosh this is great social history" article recently is one by my @TulaneHistory colleague Xiaoyue Li: “Usurpers of Technology: Train Robbery and Theft in Egypt, 1876-1904,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 53, no. 2, 195-212.

@LauraAdderley @HunnicuttWolfe @TulaneHistory I’ll check that out. Thank you!

@deirdretlyons @HunnicuttWolfe Just dropped a good one of Xiaoyue Li most recently of Colby College but moving into @TulaneHistory

@LauraAdderley @HunnicuttWolfe @giovannettipr I agree, that’s a great piece. Thank you!

@deirdretlyons @HunnicuttWolfe Also the "Historical Groundings" chapter in @giovannettipr _Black British Migrants in Cuba_ is an exquisite piece for thinking big picture and context, without floating off in the clouds, becoming a cloud or being overwhelmed by clouds. Yes, it's my own field but good for all.

@melnickjeffrey1 I’ll check it out. Thank you!

@deirdretlyons Kelly Lytle Hernandez City of Inmates has a fascinating final chapter on alternative archives

@SignificantDot Thank you!

@deirdretlyons ianmilligan.ca/publication/hi…

@CTCJournal Looks so interesting. Thank you!

@deirdretlyons We’ve published a few great articles on this theme! Jessica Hinchy’s article sounds like a great fit: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@batb0ld Definitely is on the syllabus. I want students to think about sources and materiality as much as archives. Thank you!

@deirdretlyons All that She Carried by Tiya Miles: nytimes.com/2021/06/09/boo…