[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
April
3: NeMLA Recaps: Forum on Immigration Executive Orders and Actions: A series
recapping the recent NeMLA conference starts with two takeaways from a vital
new initiative.
April
4: NeMLA Recaps: The Book Award: The series continues with AmericanStudies
takeaways from our two great Book Award co-winners.
April
5: NeMLA Recaps: Re-reading Roundtable: Pedagogical and public scholarly
sides to what seem to be a private pleasure, as the series rolls on.
April
6: NeMLA Recaps: Creative Reading and Keynote Address: The complementary,
crucial messages of the conference’s two featured speakers.
April
7: NeMLA Recaps: The Reginald F. Lewis Museum: The series concludes with
three exemplary aspects of Baltimore’s wonderful African American history
museum.
April
8-9: My Five Years on the NeMLA Board: Five reflections on five inspiring
years on the NeMLA Executive Board!
April
10: Aviation Histories: Earhart and Roosevelt: An aviation series starts
with one of our most famous flights and one that should be.
April
11: Aviation Histories: The Tuskegee Airmen: The series continues with a
recent film that can help us keep working to better remember an inspiring group
of aviators.
April
12: Aviation Histories: Charles Lindbergh: How history can overshadow
history and why we should resist that trend, as the series flies on.
April
13: Aviation Histories: Howard Hughes: How two films portray the
iconoclastic aviator, and how to complement both images.
April
14: Aviation Histories: Sully: The series concludes with the quiet lessons
of an averted disaster and the film that largely missed them.
April
15-16: Aviation Histories: The Wright Brothers: For Wilbur’s birthday, a
special post on three lesser-known histories of the aviation innovators.
April
17: Animating History: Dr. Seuss and Propaganda: An animation series starts
with an icon’s surprising starting points.
April
18: Animating History: Peter Pan and Racism: The series continues with
datedness, racism, and teachable moments.
April
19: Animating History: The Princess and the Frog and Representation: Race, representation,
and seeing ourselves on screen, as the series rolls on.
April
20: Animating History: Frozen and Expectations: Less and more successful
challenges to our expectations in the recent animated smash.
April
21: Animating History: The Lego Movie and Consumerism: The series concludes
with consumerism, childhood, and contradiction.
April
22-23: Animating History: Earth Day Animations: For Earth Day, three 1990s
environmental animations.
April
24: Civil Disobedience: Larry Rosenwald: A series inspired by Muhammad Ali
starts with where civil disobedience and public scholarship intersect.
April
25: Civil Disobedience: Moral Mondays: The series continues with two
contexts for an influential current protest movement.
April
26: Civil Disobedience: Rosa Parks: The okay, better, and best ways to
remember an iconic figure, as the series rolls on.
April
27: Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau: Three lesser-known facts about
Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience.”
April
28: Civil Disobedience: Muhammad Ali: The series concludes with reflections
on the 50th anniversary of Ali’s influential moment of civil
disobedience.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
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like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to contribute? Lemme know!
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