[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
November
30: AmendmentStudying: Summertime Blues and the 26th Amendment: A
13th Amendment-inspired series kicks off with how a classic summer
song connects to a generation-shifting amendment.
December
1: AmendmentStudying: Santa Clara County and the 14th Amendment:
The series continues with the seemingly offhand sentences through which the
Supreme Court radically revised history.
December
2: AmendmentStudying: The 19th Amendment and the ERA: How the
long road to women’s suffrage might parallel a current political journey, as
the series rolls on.
December
3 AmendmentStudying: Washington DC and the 23rd Amendment: How
the 1961 amendment reflects and helped shift the city’s complex history.
December
4: AmendmentStudying: Prohibition Culture: The series concludes with three
texts that help us understand the world the 18th Amendment made.
December
5-6: AmendmentStudying: On Not Taking the 13th Amendment for Granted:
On the amendment’s 150th anniversary, three reasons we should not
see it as a historical given.
December
7: Circles of Friends: Revolutionary Circles: A Sinatra-inspired series
starts with three circles that helped create the Revolution and a new nation.
December
8: Circles of Friends: Five of Hearts: The series continues with three
books that help illuminate an intimate and influential late 19th
century circle.
December
9: Circles of Friends: The Algonquin Round Table: Four members of the
modernist circle who might surprise you, as the series rolls on.
December
10: Circles of Friends: The Brat Pack: Three layers to how we can AmericanStudy
the mid-80s circle of young actors.
December
11: Circles of Friends: The Darker Side of Friends:
The series concludes with three dark sides to the very successful and funny TV
comedy.
December
12-13: Circles of Friends: The Rat Packs: A special Sinatra birthday post
on how the famous group of friends started and evolved, and why the changes
matter.
December
14: Semester Recaps: First-Year Writing: A Fall 2015 recap series on
student work kicks off with three ways my first-year writing students responded
to digital opportunities.
December
15: Semester Recaps: American Literature I: The series continues with three
examples of inspiring student outside connections in their individual author
presentations.
December
16: Semester Recaps: Interdisciplinary Studies Capstone: Three of the
Capstone senior projects that give me hope for our future, as the series rolls
on.
December
17: Semester Recaps: Honors Literature Seminar: Three impressive collective
perspectives from the class conversations in my Gilded Age lit seminar.
December
18: Semester Recaps: ALFA Class on Contemporary Short Stories: The series
concludes with the five author and stories we read in my adult learning class
on emerging writers.
December
19-20: Spring 2016 Preview: Five things I’m looking forward to in the
Spring 2016 semester—add your own fall reflections and spring anticipations in
comments, please!
December
21: Wishes for the AmericanStudies Elves: The CEM Baseball Team: A series
on American stories that should be made into blockbuster films starts with an
inspiring team and game.
December
22: Wishes for the AmericanStudies Elves: Ely Parker’s Life: The series
continues with a 19th century Renaissance American whose biography
rivals our greatest stories.
December
23: Wishes for the AmericanStudies Elves: Ida B. Wells’ Crossroads: A
turning point moment that embodies the worst and best of America, as the series
rolls on.
December
24: Wishes for the AmericanStudies Elves: Burr: The (con-)Founding Father
who’s enjoying a bit of a comeback, and why he deserves his own blockbuster
story.
December
25: Wishes for the AmericanStudies Elves: To Save the Man: The series
concludes with a wish that’s already been granted, in John Sayles’ upcoming
film.
December
26-27: Emily Lauer’s Guest Post on Hamilton: In my latest Guest Post, a
NeMLA colleague and friend writes about the hit musical and its connections to
New York City.
December
28: AmericanStudying 2015: Syrian Refugees: A series AmericanStudying some
of the year’s biggest stories starts with three ways to make the case for
resettling refugees.
December
29: AmericanStudying 2015: Trump: The series continues with what’s not new
about the GOP frontrunner, what is, and how to best stop him.
December
30: AmericanStudying 2015: Bernie Sanders: The AmericanStudies reason why I’m
not quite feeling the Bern, as the series rolls on.
December
31: AmericanStudying 2015: Campus Protests: Two ways AmericanStudies can
help us take the newest wave of college protests seriously.
January
1: AmericanStudying 2015: Star Wars Mania: The series concludes with two
things I love about the new Star Wars film and one that worries me.
First series of
the New Year 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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