[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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