[A recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
November
3: Exemplary Elections: 1800: An election week series starts with the
election that changed everything—and, fortunately, didn’t.
November
4: Exemplary Elections: 1864: The series continues with one very good and
one very bad thing about the crucial wartime election.
November
5: Exemplary Elections: 1876: How an AmericanStudies approach can help us
understand one of our most contested elections, as the series rolls on.
November
6: Exemplary Elections: 1948: A couple AmericanStudies contexts beyond the
compelling “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline.
November
7: Exemplary Elections: 1994: The series concludes with three 21st
century legacies of a defining midterm election. (For a lot more discussion, see
this
Lawyers, Guns and Money story in response to my post.)
November
8-9: Four Years!: Four heartfelt thanks on the occasion of the blog’s
fourth anniversary!
November
10: Veterans Days: The Best Years of Our Lives: A Veterans’ Day series
starts with the under-remembered film that offers an important perspective on
this American community.
November
11: Veterans Days: The Bonus Army: The series continues with the historical
event and community that remind us of for how long veterans have also been
activists.
November
12: Veterans Days: The Harrisburg Veterans Parade: One of the low points in
our treatment of veterans, and then one of the highs, as the series rolls on.
November
13: Veterans Days: Veterans’ Organizations: The distinct and even
contrasting reasons why and how veterans’ organizations are formed.
November
14: Veterans Days: Miyoko Hikiji: The series concludes with the inspiring
veteran and book that importantly complicated and expand our narratives of this
community.
November
15-16: Crowd-sourced Veterans Days: Responses and contributions to the week’s
series
from fellow AmericanStudiers.
November
17: American Drama: Provincetown and Trifles: A series AmericanStudying
dramatic
works starts with the community and play that changed the game.
November
18: American Drama: Hansberry’s Husband and Wife: The series continues with
the flawed, frustrating, and crucial couple at the heart of a classic play.
November
19: American Drama: Wilson’s Ambition: Ambition, success and failure, and
August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, as the series rolls on.
November
20: American Drama: Angels in America and Rent: Two 1990s theatrical works
and how our cultural conversations about controversial issues and histories evolve.
November
21: American Drama: Depression Drama and Odets: The series concludes with
contrasting and complementary activist dramas during a dark time.
November
22-23: American Drama: Five More: But wait—five more playwrights and plays
that deserve their own posts (and hopefully will get them someday)!
November
24: 21st Century Thanks: Twitter: A Thanksgiving series on 21st
century gratitudes starts with three things that the social media site does
very well.
November
25: 21st Century Thanks: Facebook: The series continues with why
I’m thankful for the social media giant despite its frustrations.
November
26: 21st Century Thanks: Email: Obsessing over, historically
contextualizing, and expressing gratitude for this new form of communication,
as the series rolls on.
November
27: 21st Century Thanks: FaceTime: On Thanksgiving, a quick post
on why I’m so thankful for a way to keep in touch with my boys from afar—happy holiday!
November
28: 21st Century Thanks: E-Colleagues: The series concludes with
five colleagues I haven’t gotten to meet in person yet—but to whom I still feel
connected thanks to the 21st century!
Next series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d like to see covered in this space? Guest
Posts you’d like to contribute? Lemme know!
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