[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
August
31: Fall 2015 Previews: American Lit I: A series of fall preview posts
starts with the benefits for both students and faculty of getting creative in a
lit survey.
September
1: Fall 2015 Previews: Honors Lit: The series continues with the challenge
and excitement of bringing an old favorite to a new audience.
September
2: Fall 2015 Previews: First-Year Writing I: Two ways to bring the digital
to a first-year writing classroom, as the series rolls on.
September
3: Fall 2015 Previews: Interdisciplinary Studies Capstone: Three reasons I’m
very excited to be teaching our IDIS Capstone course for the first time.
September
4: Fall 2015 Previews: Adult Learning: The series concludes with how you
can help me prepare the syllabus for my next adult learning course, on emerging
young writers.
September
5-6: Resources for Teaching: A special post on some of the teaching
resources, mentors, and colleagues that have meant a lot to me—add yours in
comments, please!
September
7: AmericanStudying 9/11: Allies in Afghanistan: A series AmericanStudying
September 11th, 2001 starts with Rambo, James Bond, and our shifting
relationship to Afghanistan.
September
8: AmericanStudying 9/11: Do No Harm: The series continues with doctors,
dark histories, and remembering the worst of what we’ve done.
September
9: AmericanStudying 9/11: The Neverending History?: On wartime excesses and
whether our current ones will ever end, as the series rolls on.
September
10: AmericanStudying 9/11: The Siege: The most troublingly accurate detail
of a remarkably prescient pre-9/11 film.
September
11: AmericanStudying 9/11: Art in the Aftermath: The series concludes with
the strengths and limitations of three post-9/11 cultural works.
September
12-13: Memorializing 9/11: A special post on what the 9/11 memorial does,
what it doesn’t do, and why the difference matters.
September
14: Given Days: Ruthian Realities: A series inspired by Dennis Lehane’s The Given Day starts with Babe Ruth,
race, and myth in America.
September
15: Given Days: The Influenza Epidemic: The series continues with what The Given Day helps us understand about
the largely forgotten early 20th century health crisis.
September
16: Given Days: The Boston Police Strike: What Lehane’s novel gets right
and wrong about a controversial history, as the series rolls on.
September
17: Given Days: The Great Molasses Flood: Three telling details about a
unique historical event featured in Lehane’s novel.
September
18: Given Days: The Future for Tulsa: The series concludes with how history
can complicate a historical fiction’s happy endings.
September
19-20: Crowd-sourced Historical Fictions: In one of my fullest
crowd-sourced posts yet, fellow AmericanStudiers nominate other great works of
historical fiction---add yours in comments!
September
21: September Texts: Wake Me Up When September Ends: A series on September
in American culture starts with the specific and universal sides to the Green
Day hit.
September
22: September Texts: Come September: The series continues with how
biographies can add layers of interest to a mediocre romantic film.
September
23: September Texts: See You in September: What a mid-level pop music hit
from the 50s can tell us about music and America in the mid-20th
century, as the series rolls on!
September
24: September Texts: Until September: An 80s romantic comedy and the
enduring appeal of Paris in the American imagination!
September
25: September Texts: S eptember
Swoon: The series concludes with three contexts for a great book on
baseball, race, and America!
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!
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