December
1-2: Chilly Crowd-sourcing: A series on winter in American culture
concludes with the responses and thoughts of some fellow AmericanStudiers—add
yours, please!
December
3: AmericanStudying the Pacific, Part One: A Pearl Harbor-inspired series
starts with a post on commemorating or remembering war—and Clint Eastwood
films.
December
4: AmericanStudying the Pacific, Part Two: The series continues with the
two distinct sides of San Diego’s USS Midway Museum.
December
5: AmericanStudying the Pacific, Part Three: On Midway, The Thin Red Line,
and two distinct eras and types of war movies.
December
6: AmericanStudying the Pacific, Part Four: On what I took away from a
childhood building war-related models, as the series rolls on.
December
7: AmericanStudying the Pacific, Part Five: The series concludes with a
special post on remembering Pearl Harbor and similarly infamous days.
December
8-9: Lincoln, Culture, and History: Another special post, this one on some
of the questions about cultural images of history raised by the new Spielberg
film.
December
10: Fireside Reads, Part One: A series on AmericanStudies works to read on
long winter’s nights begins with two late 19th century mega-novels.
December
11: Fireside Reads, Part Two: The series continues with Carlos Bulosan’s
contribution to our fireside reading.
December
12: Fireside Reads, Part Three: On my favorite American poet, and one with
whom you could definitely spend some quality time by the fire.
December
13: Fireside Reads, Part Four: The American mystery novelist who will give
you the best kind of winter chills, as the series rolls on.
December
14: Fireside Reads, Part Five: The series concludes with some worthy
fireside reads from international, honorary AmericanStudiers.
December
15-16: Crowd-sourced Fireside Reads: Suggestions for fireside reads from
fellow AmericanStudiers—add your own, please!
December
17-23: AmericanStudier Needs You: The old AmericanStudier site is sadly
defunct, but I plan to rebuild in the new year—and would love your suggestions,
contributions, and feedback!
December
24: Making My List (Again), Part One: My annual list of wishes for the
AmericanStudies Elves kicks off with the Christmas Eve attitude we could all
use a bit more of.
December
25: Making My List (Again), Part Two: The series continues with my wish for
what we can all take away from the best Christmas film ever.
December
26: Making My List (Again), Part Three: On my wish for American attitudes
toward and inclusion of atheists.
December
27: Making My List (Again), Part Four: The website and project that all
Americans should engage with and support, as the series rolls on.
December
28: Making My List (Again), Part Five: The series concludes with my wish
for an experience that all American kids should get to have.
December
29-30: Making Our Lists: A crowd-sourced post on AmericanStudies wish lists—but
it could use some more wishes! Add yours, please!
New year and series stars tomorrow,
Ben
PS. Things you’d like to read about in this space in
2013? Guest Posts you’d like to write? Lemme know!
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