[A recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
August
4: Virginia Voices: William Byrd II: A series anticipating my next trip back
to my home state starts with a complex, contradictory, compelling early
Virginia voice.
August
5: Virginia Voices: Thomas Nelson Page: The series continues with the
once-popular author it’d be okay not to read, and why we perhaps still should.
August
6: Virginia Voices: William McGuffey: The 19th century minister
and academic who profoundly impacted American education, as the series rolls
on.
August
7: Virginia Voices: Tom Wolfe: The author who helped redefine what novels
could be, and then interestingly turned to more conventional fiction in his
later career.
August
8: Virginia Voices: V.C. Andrews: The series concludes with the popular
author who has become, long after her death, something quite different.
August
9-10: Italian American Voices: Nancy Caronia’s Guest Post: In my latest
Guest Post, my colleague and friend highlights significant literary, cultural,
and scholarly Italian American voices.
August
11: Birthday Specials: Born This Day: A birthday-week series starts with
four Americans who share August 11th bdays.
August
12: Birthday Specials: American Memory Days: The series continues with the
post that inaugurated my American Memory Day Calendar.
August
13: Birthday Specials: 2011 Birthday Best: The post that highlighted 34
favorites from my blog’s first year, as the series rolls on.
August
14: Birthday Specials: 2012 Birthday Best: 35 favorites from my blog’s
second year!
August
15: Birthday Specials: 2013 Birthday Best: And 36 favorites from my blog’s
third year!
August
16-17: Birthday Specials: 37 for 37: The series concludes with this year
bday’s post, highlighting 37 of my favorites from the blog’s fourth year!
August
18: Films for the Dog Days: Dog Day Afternoon: A series on films about and
for the dog days of summer starts with the gritty crime drama that’s also
sneakily subversive.
August
19: Films for the Dog Days: Jungle Fever and Mississippi Masala: The series
continues with two steamy interracial romances that make for a great film
marriage.
August
20: Films for the Dog Days: Body Heat: The classic film noir that captures
the genre’s problems with heat, as the series rolls on.
August
21: Films for the Dog Days: In the Heat of the Night and Black Snake Moan:
On two very different steamy Southern stories that together help us remember
dark regional histories.
August
22: Films for the Dog Days: Men with Guns: The series concludes with a film
that takes Americans, both characters and audiences, to our Southern neighbor.
August
23-24: Crowd-sourced Dog Days: My latest crowd-sourced post, as fellow
AmericanStudiers share their responses and dog day film nominees!
August
25: Hall of Inspiration Nominees: Bartolomé de Las Casas: A series on
nominees for my in-progress Hall of American Inspiration starts with one of the
earliest inspiring Americans.
August
26: Hall of Inspiration Nominees: Ely Parker: The series continues with the
nominee who embodied inspiring cultural and cross-cultural identities.
August
27: Hall of Inspiration Nominees: Ida B. Wells: The inspiring voice and
activist from one of our darkest moments, as the series rolls on.
August
28: Hall of Inspiration Nominees: Jane Addams: On the inspiring historic
figure and site that still have a great deal to teach us in our own era.
August
29: Hall of Inspiration Nominees: Dororthy Day: The series concludes with
the activist who exemplified the most inspiring possibilities of American
Christianity.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics or themes you'd like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you'd like to contribute? Lemme know, please!
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