[The start of a new year meant my annual series on historic anniversaries. Leading up to this weekend post on some of what I’m planning for my Spring semester sabbatical!]
Two works
in progress for which I’d love your input and ideas, and one even more direct
request.
1)
Podcast season two: Back
in September I noted that one main plan for my sabbatical this semester was
to work on a second season for my narrative history podcast The Celestials’ Last Game:
Baseball, Bigotry, & the Battle for America. I’m still hoping to
get that going soon, with a goal of having it drop around Opening Day in late
March; and I’m still interested in the baseball diamond that was built and used
at the Manzanar Japanese incarceration camp during World War II as a possible
focus. So I’d love any ideas or info you might have about those or related
histories; but I’m also not wedded to that topic, so if you have other ideas
for a baseball or sports history season two subject, share them in comments or feel free to email me!
2)
Resources for our website: Our awesome new Black & White & Read All Over
public scholarly website has been live for just over four months now, and my wife
Vaughn continues to put in the work to expand and strengthen it. That’s
especially the case with the Resources tab; so far that means the Pitchables page under
that tab, but Vaughn and I are also interested in expanding that Resources
section with additional helpful links and support for public scholars, AmericanStudiers,
cultural studies folks, teachers, and more. If you have ideas for either things
we should include or things you’d find helpful, once again share them in
comments or feel free to email me!
3)
Guest Posts: The 100-plus
Guest Posts I was able to share on the old blog remain my favorite part of
that site, and I’m so glad that I’ve been able to share the first three Guest Posts on the new
site (they’re at the top of that blog page as all Guest Posts will always
be) over the last couple months. But when it comes to Guest Posts, I can never
get enough, and I’d really love to share at least one every month. So if you
have either specific ideas, general interest, or questions of any kind about
Guest Posting on this blog, once more with feeling, share them in comments or feel free to email me!
Next
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. You know
what to do!
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