June
2: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: The Celestials: My annual series on books
to bring to the beach begins with a wonderful recent historical novel.
June
3: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: Spoiled: The series continues with a book
of short stories that spoke to me powerfully despite my initial misgivings.
June
4: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: Personals: An engaging, witty, and
thoughtful poetry collection by a colleague and friend, as the series rolls on.
June
5: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: Amusing the Million: If you take just one
work of AmericanStudies scholarship to the beach this summer, I vote for this
amazing book.
June
6: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: The Chinese Exclusion Act: The series
concludes with a shameless but earnest pitch for putting my most recent book on
your summer list.
June
7-8: Crowd-sourced Beach Reads: The beach read responses and nominations of
fellow AmericanStudiers in one of my fullest crowd-sourced posts yet—add your
own in comments, please!
June
9: D-Day Stories: Band of Brothers: A series inspired by the invasion’s 70th
anniversary starts with the best part of the great miniseries.
June
10: D-Day Stories: The Longest Day: The series continues with the
blockbuster film and what it tells us about such images of war.
June
11: D-Day Stories: Eisenhower: What we can learn from the story of the
general turned president, as the series rolls on.
June
12: D-Day Stories: The 29th Infantry: On one of the more subtle
but enduring ways we can remember military units and service.
June
13: D-Day Stories: Frank Draper, Jr.: The series concludes with the website
that illustrates what the 21st century can add to how we remember
soldiers and wars.
June
14-15: War Stories: Board Games: Following up the D-Day series, and in
honor of my best friend’s birthday, a post on a few board games from which I
learned a lot about war and history.
June
16: AmericanStudying Summer Jams: Summer Wind: A series on summertime songs
begins with some thoughts on performance, authorship, and collective memory.
June
17: AmericanStudying Summer Jams: Summertime Blues: The series continues
with the rock classic that reveals multiple sides to the voices of youth.
June
18: AmericanStudying Summer Jams: Summer in the City: Whether and how we
can historically contextualize a fun rock song, as the series rolls on.
June
19: AmericanStudying Summer Jams: Summertime: On two distinct but
complementary ways to AmericanStudy the Fresh Prince and one of his biggest
hits.
June
20: AmericanStudying Summer Jams: All Summer Long: The series concludes
with a song that captures both pseudo-nostalgia and the genuine influence pop
culture can have on our lives.
June
21-22: Crowd-sourced Summer Jams: A crowd-sourced bbq, featuring the
responses and nominations of fellow AmericanStudiers—bring your grilled
favorites in comments, please!
June
23: AmericanStudier Camp: Camp Virginia: A series AmericanStudying summer
camp starts with the camp without which there’d be no AmericanStudier.
June
24: AmericanStudier Camp: Hello Muddah: The series continues with the
novelty song that became a multi-faceted relfection of American society and
culture.
June
25: AmericanStudier Camp: Jewish Summer Camps: The preservation and
revision of culture and tradition, as the series rolls on.
June
26: AmericanStudier Camp: Playing Indian: On the vital work of
AmericanStudies scholarship that can help us make sense of a troubling summer
camp tradition.
June
27: AmericanStudier Camp: Friday the 13th: The series concludes
with a recent change in the cultural images of summer camps, and what we can
make of it.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
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