April
1: Baseball in America: Symbolism: An Opening Day series starts with the
symbolic cultural uses to which we have put the national pastime.
April
2: Baseball in America: The Black Sox: The series continues with three
different ways to AmericanStudy baseball’s most famous scandal.
April
3: Baseball in America: Ruth and Gehrig: Two iconic baseball stars and the
distinct national ideals to which they connect, as the series rolls on.
April
4: Baseball in America: International Arrivals: Two recent communities of
international major leaguers, and the immigration histories they can help us
remember.
April
5: Baseball in America: Nine Inspiring Innings: The series concludes with
the baseball book that serves as a model of public scholarly writing and
analysis.
April
6-7: The Crowd-sourced World Series: Fellow AmericanStudiers chime in on
the baseball series.
April
8: Taxes in America: The Stamp Act: A Tax Day-inspired series starts with
the Revolutionary controversy that originated many of our national narratives
about taxes.
April
9: Taxes in America: The Whiskey Rebellion: The series continues with the
complex Early Republic conflict that reflected some of our deepest debates and
divisions.
April
10: Taxes in America: Lincoln and Taxes: On the largely unknown and
significant Civil War origins of the income tax, as the series rolls on.
April
11: Taxes in America: The Populists and Taxes: What we can take away from
the Populist Party’s influential support for a progressive income tax.
April
12: Taxes in America: The Big Question: The week’s series concludes with
three different AmericanStudies answers to the big question about taxes in 21st
century America.
April
13-14: Taxes in America: The Cost: But wait—a special weekend post to round
out the tax series, this one on what The
Wire reveals about the cost of our current attitudes toward taxation.
April
15: Comic Book Heroes: Dick Tracy: A series on AmericanStudying comic book
heroes starts with a couple key contexts for one of the first such heroes.
April
16: Comic Book Heroes: Superman and Batman: The series continues with two
contrasts between our two most iconic superheroes.
April
17: Comic Book Heroes: Wonder Woman: The many American layers to the
creation and development of our first female superhero, as the series rolls on.
April
18: Comic Book Heroes: Black Panther: Black Power, race in popular and
American culture, and the first prominent black superhero.
April
19: Comic Book Heroes: The Punisher: The series concludes with the myths
and limits of vigilante justice in American culture and history.
April
20-21: Crowd-sourced Comic Books: Lots of great thoughts, responses, and
links on the week’s topics and themes, as shared by fellow AmericanStudies heroes!
April
22: Reading Du Bois, Part One: A series on my favorite American, and the
subject of a special class I’m teaching this fall, starts with the one Du Bois
book all Americans should read.
April
23: Reading Du Bois, Part Two: The series continues with Du Bois’s flawed
but significant first novel.
April
24: Reading Du Bois, Part Three: The work that redefined an entire
profession, and then went even further, as the series rolls on.
April
25: Reading Du Bois, Part Four: Three distinct and impressive sides to Du
Bois’s lifelong journalistic work.
April
26: Reading Du Bois, Part Five: My part of the series concludes with three
inspiring Du Bois letters.
April
27-28: Roopika Risam’s Guest Post: Rounding out the series with a guest
post from one of our most talented Du Bois scholars.
April
29: Communism in America: “The Palace-Burner”: A May Day inspired series
starts with a post on empathy, us vs. them narratives, and one of my favorite
American poems.
Next post on
Communism in America tomorrow,
Ben
PS.
Topics you’d like to see covered on the blog? Guest Posts you’d like to write?
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