[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
March
2: Forgotten Wars: The Second Barbary War: A series on under-remembered
American wars starts with the anniversary of an Early Republic conflict.
March
3: Forgotten Wars: The First Barbary War: The series continues with three
longstanding legacies of the late 18th century conflict.
March
4: Forgotten Wars: The Aroostook War: National history, local history, and
lumberjacks, as the series rolls on.
March
5: Forgotten Wars: The Occupations of Nicaragua: Two 20th
century conflicts that are all too representative, and how to remember them
specifically nonetheless.
March
6: Forgotten Wars: Remembering the Sand Creek Massacre: The series
concludes with three sites that can help us remember a complex Civil War
massacre.
March
7-8: James Fallows on Forgotten 21st Century Wars: But wait, a
special weekend post follows up a fellow AmericanStudier’s take on our current,
ironically forgotten wars.
March
9: Jazzy Connections: Scott Joplin: A JazzStudying series starts with the
musical and cultural legacies of the hugely influential composer.
March
10: Jazzy Connections: Jazz Literature: The series continues with three
engaging and important examples of jazz’s influence on American literature.
March
11: Jazzy Connections: Whites and the Harlem Renaissance: White America’s
troubling and exploitative yet important relationship to black culture, as the
series rolls on.
March
12: Jazzy Connections: Charlie Parker’s Death: On the anniversary of the
tragic event, reflections on what is lost and what endures when an artist dies
young.
March
13: Jazzy Connections: Jazz in the 21st Century: The series
concludes with three ways to argue for the genre’s contemporary relevance.
March
14-15: All That Crowd-sourced Jazz: Additions of mine and the thoughts of
fellow AmericanStudiers round off the series—add yours in comments, please!
March
16: AmericanThaws: Eliot and Williams: A Spring series starts with two very
different images of the season in two great Modernist poems.
March
17: AmericanThaws: The US and the UK: The series continues with when and
how America’s oldest antagonism warmed up.
March
18: AmericanThaws: William Mahone: Late-life evolutions that don’t impress
me much, and those that do, as the series rolls on.
March
19: AmericanThaws: Humanity in War: An amazing moment of humanity amidst
the horrors of war.
March
20: AmericanThaws: Nixon Goes to China: The series concludes with two ways
to contextualize an undeniable historical turning point.
March
21-22: AmericanThaws: Cuba: A special weekend post on two pieces of mine
that can help us understand one of our most recent warmings.
March
23: American Epidemics: Influenza and Ebola: A series on past and present
epidemics starts by comparing and contrasting two of the most potent.
March
24: American Epidemics: The Measles: The series continues with three stages
in the history of a frustratingly persistent disease.
March
25: American Epidemics: Yellow Fever: The Early Republic outbreak that
nearly changed everything, and why it didn’t, as the series rolls on.
March
26: American Epidemics: Smallpox and Mather: Two prior posts of mine that
highlight the worst and best of American perspectives through Cotton Mather and
smallpox.
March
27: American Epidemics: Typhoid Mary: The series concludes with how an
anniversary can help us remember a complex and important figure.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d
like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to write? Lemme know!
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