[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
June
1: Mount Auburn Connections: Origin Points: A series on the beautiful
Cambridge site starts with three ways to contextualize its 19th
century origins.
June
2: Mount Auburn Connections: Blanche Linden: The series continues with
three inspiring sides to the cemetery’s most significant historian.
June
3: Mount Auburn Connections: Robert Gould Shaw: What his Mount Auburn
memorial adds to our collective memories of the abolitionist and Civil War
colonel, as the series rolls on.
June
4: Mount Auburn Connections: Mary Baker Eddy: How her memorial helps us
live out the best legacy of a controversial 19th century figure.
June
5: Mount Auburn Connections: Cemeteries and the Past: The series concludes
with two overt ways and one more subtle one that cemeteries can help us
remember.
June
6-7: Crowd-sourced Spring Walks: Lots more spring walks and sites shared by
fellow AmericanStudiers—add yours in comments, please!
June
8: North Carolina Stories: Wilmington and Hope: A Tarheel series starts
with the paradoxical but vital urgency of hope.
June
9: North Carolina Stories: Thomas Wolfe: The series continues with the
ironically forgotten novelist and why we should remember and read him.
June
10: North Carolina Stories: Duke Lacrosse: The pendulum, the benefit of the
doubt, and the role of public scholars, as the series rolls on.
June
11: North Carolina Stories: North Carolina Basketball: On schadenfreude and
the worst and best of collegiate athletics.
June
12: North Carolina Stories: Moral Mondays: The series concludes with two
complex contexts for the inspiring current protest movement.
June
13-14: Playing a Significant Role: In honor of my best friend’s birthday, a
special post on role-playing games and their stigmas and value.
June
15: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: Killing Mister Watson: My annual Beach
Reads series kicks off with the atmospheric historical thriller that’s also a
lot more.
June
16: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: Pleasantville: The series continues with a
new novel that literally forced its way onto my summer reading list.
June
17: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: Alexie’s Diary: Three things to know about
Sherman Alexie’s young adult classic, as the series rolls on.
June
18: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: Big Man: The autobiography as messy and
entertaining as its larger-than-life author.
June
19: AmericanStudies Beach Reads: A Tragic, Compelling Life: The series
concludes with a recent book that makes the case for why we should and must get
serious at the beach.
June
20-21: Crowd-sourced Responses to the Charleston Terrorist Attack: Following
up the horrific terrorist attack as Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME church, a
handful of the best public scholarly responses to the killings—please add your
thoughts and links in comments!
June
22: Gordon Parks and America: A Stunning Exhibition: A series inspired by
the current, wonderful MFA exhibition opens with a few thoughts on the
exhibition’s stunning photos.
June
23: Gordon Parks and America: A Photographer’s Life: The series continues
with three impressive and exemplary projects from Parks’ long career.
June
24: Gordon Parks and America: The Learning Tree: Remembering Parks’
autobiographical novel and even more groundbreaking film version, as the series
rolls on.
June
25: Gordon Parks and America: Shaft: How Parks helps us understand the
problems and the possibilities of the blaxsploitation genre.
June
26: Gordon Parks and America: Portrait Photos and the Past: The series
concludes with some reflections on what portraits can’t teach us about the
past, and what they can.
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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