May
1: Communism in America: Dos Passos and Wright: The Communism series
resumes with the 1930s and 40s arcs of two writers.
May
2: Communism in America: Spies Like Us: On what we don’t know about two
high-profile controversies, and what we do, next in the week’s series.
May
3: Communism in America: Doctorow and Coover: The series concludes with two
postmodern historical novels on the Rosenbergs.
May
4-5: Crowd-sourced Communism: Responses and thoughts from fellow AmericanStudier’s
to the week’s series, as well as links for further reading.
May
6-10: What is American Studies?: A follow up to this year’s NEASA Colloquium,
and a chance for you to share your thoughts on teaching, writing, and thinking
American Studies.
May
11-12: The Mother of All Stories: A Mother’s Day special post!
May
13: End of Semester Thoughts, Part One: A spring wrap-up series starts with
mixture and identity across American literary history.
May
14: End of Semester Thoughts, Part Two: The series continues with three
creative and inspiring examples of student work.
May
15: End of Semester Thoughts, Part Three: Influential mothers across
American ethnic literature, as the series rolls on.
May
16: End of Semester Thoughts, Part Four: Idealism, realism, and the
students in my English Studies Capstone course.
May
17: End of Semester Thoughts, Part Five: The series concludes with
reflections on my inspiring work with adult learners.
May
18-19: Next Semester Thoughts: And the series is rounded off with a look
ahead to five fall semester classes I’m excited about!
May
20: American Studies Beach Reads Redux, Part One: Doug McAdam’s Freedom Summer!
May
21: American Studies Beach Reads Redux, Part Two: John Sayles’ A Moment in the Sun!
May
22: American Studies Beach Reads Redux, Part Three: Anna Deavere Smith’s
one-woman shows!
May
23: American Studies Beach Reads Redux, Part Four: Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall!
May
24: American Studies Beach Reads Redux, Part Five: Five more nominees for
summer reads!
May
25-26: Crowd-sourced Beach Reads Redux: Summer reading ideas from fellow
AmericanStudiers—add yours, please!
May
27: Memory and Memorials: A special Memorial Day post kicks off the week’s
series.
May
28: Remembering William Dawes: The series continues with some reflections
on Paul Revere’s much less famous fellow rider.
May
29: Remembering Benedict Arnold: How we might remember our most famous
traitor, as the series rolls on.
May
30: Remembering the Battle of New Orleans: Three striking sides to one of
our most insignificant military victories.
May
31: Remembering Lee and Longstreet: The series concludes with the opposed
arcs and meanings of two Confederate generals.
Next series starts Monday,
Ben
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