Even with sore wrists from the fall I had while on skates more than a week ago, I was able to edit the video below.

It almost edited itself.

I have been back reading copy edits of the book that Routledge will release in April 2024.

So much was in my head narrative-wise. It came out visually.

I look forward to sharing this book with others. It includes my attention to the ties between the University of Miami and the University of Alabama football-wise.

Since 2018, several peer reviewers have seen that discussion inside my still in-progress Miami book. I never expected that text to be in a public history book but so it goes. I never expected the Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras book either.

We get what we get.

What we create.

What we survive.

Hope the first four days of this year have been kind for you. Or at the very least, that you’re holding on.

PS The public history book is pricey. Ask your library or favorite museum to get it. You can, however, purchase chapters digitally and separately.

PS See also an interview I did while promoting the Hurston book in Atlanta last month. That was fun! Thank you, Gwinnett County Public Library! And yes, the public history book finds a final chapter where I meaningfully bring Hurston together with the late sci fi Octavia Butler.