Saturday, July 1, 2017

July 1-2, 2017: June 2017 Recap



[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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