Julia Brock

Episode 158: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South with Dr. Julia Brock Podcast Episode · Reckoning with Jason Herbert · 10/28/2025 · 1h 3m

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It's up! This week @juliakbrock.bsky.social drops in to talk about how the implementation of conservation laws made significant strides in protecting endangered wildlife species, but it also disrupted traditional hunting practices and livelihoods, particularly among African Americans & poor whites.

New book review:
Barnett on Brock, Julia: _Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20126518

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Noisy Memory Composer and sound artist Brian Harnetty explores the remarkable everyday stories of sound recordings and shows us a new way to listen to the past. From murd...

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Closed Seasons In a unique and personal exploration of the game and fish laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, Julia Brock offers...

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The History Museums We Need Right Now With all of the attention on the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC right now, it is important to remember that most people will experience a history museum in their own local community.

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#ScholarSunday Thread 234 Shared on July 20, 2025

Here it is, my 234th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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New podcast episode dropped! @juliakbrock.bsky.social is talking about her book CLOSED SEASONS which traces the dizzying array of factors that led to game and fish laws in the South.

Listen from @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 👇 or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

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Julia Brock’s <em>Closed Seasons</em> Recounts the History of the Hunt A new chronicle of the sporting life targets a better future

"Only by understanding the history of hunting and the politics that shaped it, Brock suggests, can we come to 'an open season to reimagine the field.'"

Check out this feature of CLOSED SEASONS by @juliakbrock.bsky.social in ‪@gardenandgun.com‬

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this is now online! check out the recording on the @c2dh.uni.lu website, link below.

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Closed Seasons | Julia Brock | University of North Carolina Press In a unique and personal exploration of the game and fish laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, Julia Brock offers...

And while you're there you should pick up the fabulous CLOSED SEASONS by my brilliant friend and colleague @juliakbrock.bsky.social 🗃️

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The Women of Rendezvous | Jenny Shaw | University of North Carolina Press The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two o...

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The NEH has been a singular force for bringing people together. In this moment of hate, fear and isolation, the NEH helped us learn about our past and about each other.

Today we are losing almost all of the NEH public servants. We are all in their debt. A national shame. A profound cultural loss.

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Today is the last day at the NEH for me and many of my amazingly dedicated colleagues. We did our best to represent & serve the American people. To champion humanities research, teaching, public engagement, cultural heritage, infrastructure, and innovation.

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Trying to focus on the @gardenandgun.com feature for CLOSED SEASONS but too distracted by the doggo 🐶

Thankful to Garden and Gun for including a profile of _Closed Seasons_ in its summer issue. The guaranteed last time I’ll share any kind of space with S.A. Cosby and Susan Orlean.

Shout out to Durrell Smith of the Minority Outdoor Alliance, quoted herein.
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_Closed Seasons_ is officially out this week 🎉 🦌

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In Dot’s Reading Corner, she recommends @juliakbrock.bsky.social's new book about hunting in the South, “Closed Seasons," from @uncpress.bsky.social. Get your paws on it!

Mississippi Law | Justin Randolph | University of North Carolina Press In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside ...

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Trump's DEI purge puts Black history in the crosshairs Three months after Tuskegee Airmen debacle, the "malicious compliance" is coming from inside the White House.

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