[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
October
3: AmericanStudying The Americans: “Illegals”: A series on the great FX TV
show starts with what’s compelling and what’s troubling about the show’s
central premise.
October
4: AmericanStudying The Americans: Spies like Us: The series continues with
what we don’t know about two high-profile spying controversies, and why it
doesn’t matter.
October
5: AmericanStudying The Americans: Stealth: The historical limitations and
imaginative possibilities of a secretive technology, as the series rolls on.
October
6: AmericanStudying The Americans: Afghanistan: How four kinds of cultural
texts can help us understand one of our most complicated and evolving
relationships and histories.
October
7: AmericanStudying The Americans: Immigrant Generations: The series
concludes with how a recent plot twist helps us analyze a vital American issue.
October
8-9: Emily Lauer’s Guest Post on Super Immigrants: In my latest Guest Post,
Emily Lauer analyzes immigration through superhero characters and stories.
October
10: Birth Control in America: Margaret Sanger: A series inspired by the 100th
anniversary of Sanger’s first clinic starts with three lesser-known sides to
the activist herself.
October
11: Birth Control in America: Esther at the Doctor: The series continues
with two historical and cultural lessons from an intimate fictional sequence.
October
12: Birth Control in America: The Pill: How the history of the combinated
oral contraceptive pill echoes the first two posts and how it differs, as the
series rolls on.
October
13: Birth Control in America: Condom Commercials: Three telling stages in
the history of advertising birth control.
October
14: Birth Control in America: Sandra Fluke: The series concludes with two
ways a 2012 story extended my week’s themes and reflected their continued
presence in our society.
October
15-16: Layne Craig’s When Sex Changed: I couldn’t write a series about
birth control and not highlight this great scholarly book by a former colleague
of mine!
October
17: Black Panther Posts: The Alabama Panthers: A 50th
anniversary series on the Panthers starts with their largely forgotten
inspiration, and why it matters.
October
18: Black Panther Posts: Guns and Breakfasts: The series continues with two
central sides to the Panthers, and why they’re not as opposed as they might
seem.
October
19: Black Panther Posts: Female Panthers: The complicated stories and
inspiring legacies of three female Panthers, as the series rolls on.
October
20: Black Panther Posts: Forrest Gump: What’s bad, and what’s even worse,
about the party’s appearance in a popular historical film.
October
21: Black Panther Posts: AAIHS Links: The series concludes with links to a
handful of great Panther posts at the African American Intellectual History
Society’s blog.
October
22-23: Colin Kaepernick and 1960s Legacies: A special weekend follow up, on
two ways the controversial quarterback is extending historical influences.
October
24: American Killers: Wieland: This year’s annual Halloween series starts
with two origin points in a unique and strange Gothic novel.
October
25: American Killers: The Devil in the White City: The series continues
with two reasons to celebrate Erik Larson’s historical bestseller, and one
critique.
October
26: American Killers: Executioner Songs: Norman Mailer, Bruce Springsteen,
and cultural narratives of serial killers, as the series rolls on.
October
27: American Killers: Bundy and Dahmer: How two pop culture genres portray
stories of serial killers.
October
28: American Killers: Dexter: The series concludes with antiheroes,
vigilantes, and everyone’s favorite TV serial killer.
Special election
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d
like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to write? Lemme know!
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