[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
June
5: The Pulitzers at 100: The Good Earth: A centennial series starts with
the limits of an influential novel, and one way to move past them.
June
6: The Pulitzers at 100: All the King’s Men: The series continues with two
of the things that make one of our most underrated novels so great.
June
7: The Pulitzers at 100: Angle of Repose: Two literary contexts for Wallace
Stegner’s masterpiece, as the series rolls on.
June
8: The Pulitzers at 100: The Color Purple: What the film adaptation of
Alice Walker’s novel didn’t include, and why it’s still a worthy complement to
the book.
June
9: The Pulitzers at 100: Vietnamese American Stories: How last year’s
winner complements but also complicates a prior winner.
June
10-11: The Pulitzers at 100: The Underground Railroad: The series concludes
with anachronisms, genre blurring, and the most recent Pulitzer winner.
June
12: American Beaches: Revere Beach: A summer series begins with three
stages in the history of an exemplary American beach.
June
13: American Beaches: The Inkwell: The series continues with three layers
to one of our most historic beaches.
June
14: American Beaches: Gidget and the Beach Boys: 1960s pop culture images
of the beach and what to make of them, as the series rolls on.
June
15: American Beaches: On the Beach: The intense and tragic film that couldn’t
compete with historic fears.
June
16: American Beaches: Baywatch: The series concludes with why those beach
bodies are also a body of evidence.
June
17-18: American Beaches: Jamie Hirami’s Guest Post on Venice Beach: A
talented young AmericanStudier on one of our most unique and telling beaches.
June
19: Mysterious Beach Reads: Ross MacDonald: My annual Beach Reads series
kicks off with the series sure to send summer chills down your spine.
June
20: Mysterious Beach Reads: Tony Hillerman: The series continues with the
books that capture the mysteries and allure of the Southwest.
June
21: Mysterious Beach Reads: Jonathan Lethem and Tim O’Brien: Two
ground-breaking novels that explore the mysteries of memory, as the series
rolls on.
June
22: Mysterious Beach Reads: Attica Locke: The wonderful first two novels by
a new favorite American author.
June
23: Mysterious Beach Reads: Tana French: The series concludes with two ways
to AmericanStudy the talented Irish novelist.
June
24-25: Crowd-sourced Beach Reads: One of my favorite crowd-sourced posts of
the year didn’t disappoint—add your nominations in comments!
June
26: The US and World War I: Entering the War: A WW1 centennial series
starts with two reasons why US troops entered the war in 1917.
June
27: The US and World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF): The
series continues with three contexts for the US soldiers who fought in the
Great War.
June
28: The US and World War I: African American Soldiers: Two opposing yet
connected ways to remember a community of veterans, as the series rolls on.
June
29: The US and World War I: Representing the War: Lessons from two
compelling cultural representations of the war.
June
30: The US and World War I: The Palmer Raids: The series concludes with the
governmental overreach that extended the worst of the war into its aftermath.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
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