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Saturday, February 1, 2025

February 1-2, 2025: January 2025 Recap

[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]

December 30: 2025 Anniversaries: King Philip’s War: My annual historic anniversaries series kicks off with the 350th anniversary of a tragic early American conflict.

December 31: 2025 Anniversaries: Lexington and Concord: The series continues with two important ways to add to our Revolutionary memories for the 250th.

January 1: 2025 Anniversaries: The Erie Canal: For the 200th anniversary of its opening, three figures who helped construct the Erie Canal.

January 2: 2025 Anniversaries: Two 1875 Laws: The Page Act, the Civil Rights Act, and the worst and best of America, as the series remembers on.

January 3: 2025 Anniversaries: 1925 Literature: A link to a Saturday Evening Post Considering History column where I argued for complementing The Great Gatsby with other 1925 lit.

January 4-5: 2025 Anniversaries: Five 1975 Films: The series concludes with quick thoughts on what five class 1975 films can tell us in 2025.

January 6: Great Society Laws: Civil and Voting Rights: For the Great Society’s 60th anniversary, a series on its groundbreaking laws kicks off with three pivotal civil rights acts.

January 7: Great Society Laws: Education and the Arts: The series continues with two specific laws and one broader effect of the Great Society.

January 8: Great Society Laws: Economic Safety Nets: Three distinct and equally important ways that the Great Society created safety nets, as the series acts on.

January 9: Great Society Laws: Medicare and Medicaid: How the Great Society reflected two distinct ways of thinking about health care, and why the second is still urgently needed.

January 10: Great Society Laws: Immigration and America: The series concludes with one definitively inclusive thing the 1965 Immigration Act did, one more complicated effect, and the bottom line.

January 11-12: The Great Society in 2025: A special weekend follow-up on where we are in January 2025, and why we need to fight for the Great Society now more than ever.

January 13: Spring Semester Previews: Graduate Research Methods: For my Spring semester previews series, I wanted to focus on skills we’ll be working on in my classes this semester, starting with the combination of clarity and nuance in my Grad course.

January 14: Spring Semester Previews: First-Year Writing II: The series continues with a film I’m for the first time hesitant to share with my First-Year Writing students, and why that makes it even more important to do so.

January 15: Spring Semester Previews: Major American Authors of the 20C: How creative assignments can complement and strengthen analytical writing, as the series teaches on.  

January 16: Spring Semester Previews: American Literature II: Why I’m still committed to including longer works in my literature classes despite the challenges.

January 17: Spring Semester Previews: The Short Story Online: The series concludes with the unmistakable frustrations of generative AI, and how I’m trying to push back.

January 18-19: Spring Semester Previews: My Scholarly Work and You: A special weekend post on my ideas for a next public scholarly podcast, and how you all can help!

January 20: Misread Quotes: MLK’s Dream: To build on my annual MLK Day post on the misunderstood King, a series on misread and -remembered quotes, starting with King’s most famous one.

January 21: Misread Quotes: Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural: The series continues with why one of our most justifiably famous inaugural addresses needs to be remembered more accurately.

January 22: Misread Quotes: The Constitution: Three sections of the Constitution that conservatives consistently get wrong, as the series reads on.

January 23: Misread Quotes: The Bible: And three sections of Scripture about which I would say the same.

January 24: Misread Quotes: Churchill on Politics and Age: The series concludes with a Churchill quote that never happened, and why it’s even wronger than that.

January 27: Musical Activism: “We Are the World”: For the recording’s 40th anniversary, a musical activisms series kicks off with three figured who embody the multiple layers of “World.”

January 28: Musical Activism: Live Aid and Farm Aid: The series continues with an overblown controversy at one benefit concert that helped produce another enduring one.

January 29: Musical Activism: Post-9/11 Songs: How connections to political and historical events can change what songs mean and do, as the series plays on.

January 30: Musical Activism: Artists United Against Apartheid: Two American contexts for an inspiring 1985 musical activism.

January 31: Musical Activism: Endorsements: The series concludes with three examples and types of political endorsements from musicians.

Super Bowl series starts Monday,

Ben

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