[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
August
3: Virginia Connections: Slavery at Monticello App: My annual Old Dominion
series kicks off with a new app that exemplifies how technology and public
history can work together.
August
4: Virginia Connections: UVa’s African American Cemetery: The series
continues with the memorial cemetery that makes a significant but partial contribution
to our collective memories.
August
5: Virginia Connections: Confederate Memorials: Two obvious Confederate
memorials in Charlottesville and one more subtle one, as the series rolls on.
August
6: Virginia Connections: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum: Three
exemplary exhibits and pieces from the wonderful Colonial Williamsburg museum.
August
7: Virginia Connections: Writing Deafness: The series concludes with a
great recent scholarly book that contributes to many disciplines, including
AmericanStudies.
August
8-9: My Virginia: A special weekend post highlighting posts on the many
people and communities that define my Virginia!
August
10: Birthday Specials: 2011 Birthday Best: A birthday week series kicks off
with 34 favorite posts from the first year on this blog!
August
11: Birthday Specials: 2012 Birthday Best: 35 bday favorites from the blog’s
second year, as the series rolls on!
August
12: Birthday Specials: 2013 Birthday Best: The series continues with 36
bday favorites from the blog’s third year!
August
13: Birthday Specials: 2014 Birthday Best: 37 bday favorites from the blog’s
fourth year!
August
14-16: Birthday Specials: 38 for 38: The birthday series concludes with 38
favorites from the last year on the blog!
August
17: Cape Cod Stories: The Mashpee Revolt: A Cape Cod series starts with
what’s challenging and complex about a historical rebellion, and what’s very clear.
August
18: Cape Cod Stories: Thoreau and the Cape: The series continues with two
complementary reasons to read Thoreau’s often-overlooked travel book.
August
19: Cape Cod Stories: The National Seashore: Three telling spaces within
the Cape’s beautiful natural wonder, as the series rolls on.
August
20: Cape Cod Stories: Provincetown: Three revolutionary stages in the
evolving, very American history and identity of the Cape community.
August
21: Cape Cod Stories: The Changing Cape: The series concludes with what the
Cape isn’t any more, what it is, and what it might be.
August
22-23: Crowd-sourced Summer Getaways: One of my fuller recent crowd-sourced
posts, featuring both Cape Cod responses and lots of other summer getaway ideas—add
yours in comments!
August
24: More Poems I Love: Larcom’s “Weaving”: A series on poems I love starts
with Lucy Larcom’s unique, autobiographical, intersectional classic.
August
25: More Poems I Love: Piatt’s “Pique”: The series continues with Sarah Piatt’s
clever, conversational, complex poem about gender and relationships.
August
26: More Poems I Love: Dunbar’s “Mask”: Paul Laurence Dunbar’s amazing poem
about race, identity, community, and the lynching era, as the series rolls on.
August
27: More Poems I Love: Espada’s “Perfection”: Why I love MartÃn Espada’s
reflective, political, powerful poem on work and identity.
August
28: More Poems I Love: Alexie’s “Exaggeration”: The series concludes with
Sherman Alexie’s dark yet hopeful, and vital, poem.
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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