[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
September
4: Fall 2017 Previews: Mark Twain!: A Fall semester series starts with two
goals for a Special Author course I’m very excited to be teaching.
September
5: Fall 2017 Previews: America in the Gilded Age—and Today: The series
continues with what three under-read Gilded Age literary texts can help us
analyze in 2017.
September
6: Fall 2017 Previews: First-year Writing I: Two of the many vital skills that
FYW courses teach, as the series rolls on.
September
7: Fall 2017 Previews: Literary Conversations at BOLLI: Two literary
pairings for which I’m particulary excited in a new adult learning class.
September
8: Fall 2017 Previews: Contemporary Short Stories for ALFA—Your Input Needed!:
I could still use your input as I finalize the short stories for my next
Fitchburg adult learning class!
September
9-10: Fall 2017 Previews: Conferences and Communities: The series concludes
with two fall events I’m looking forward to—and room for you to share some
more!
September
11: Pledge Posts: Myths and Realities: A series on the Pledge of Allegiance’s
125th anniversary starts with fundamental inaccuracies about the
emblematic text.
September
12: Pledge Posts: Protesting the Pledge: The series continues with two
contexts for my older son’s inspiring act of civil disobedience.
September
13: Pledge Posts: The Bellamy Boys: How biographical and familial contexts
can change our sense of the Pledge, as the series continues.
September
14: Pledge Posts: 1890s America: How three 1890s contexts help us think
about the Pledge.
September
15: Pledge Posts: The 1950s Addition: The series concludes with three
contexts for the 1950s addition of “under God” to the Pledge.
September
16-17: The Worst and Best of Allegiance: A special follow-up post on what allegiance
too often means, and what it might mean instead.
September
18: Legends of the Fall: Young Adult Lit: A series on autumn and falls from
innocence starts with two iconic YA novels.
September
19: Legends of the Fall: American Pastoral: The series continues with the
louder and quieter moments of lost innocence in Philip Roth’s great novel.
September
20: Legends of the Fall: The Body and Stand By Me: The different stories of
youthful innocence lost in a novella and film adaptation, as the series rolls
on.
September
21: Legends of the Fall: Presumed Innocent: The multiple layers of
revelations built into Scott Turow’s novel and the best mystery fiction.
September
22: Legends of the Fall: “American Pie”: The series concludes with the
straightforward and more subtle sides to the beloved ballad of lost innocence.
September
23-24: Crowd-sourced Legends of the Fall: The responses and nominations of
fellow FallStudiers constitute another great crowd-sourced post!
September
25: Little Rock and Race: On the 60th anniversary of the Little
Rock Nine, three layers to how that city remembers those histories of race and
community.
September
26: Early Civil Rights Histories: Thurgood Marshall: A series on early
Civil Rights histories starts with three legal victories won by a young
Thurgood Marshall.
September
27: Early Civil Rights Histories: Brown v. Board of Education: The series
continues with the forgotten figures at the heart of the crucial Civil Rights
case.
September
28: Early Civil Rights Histories: Women and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Danielle
McGuire’s wonderful piece on the women behind Montgomery, as the series rolls
on.
September
29: Early Civil Rights Histories: The Little Rock Nine: The series concludes
with three ways to remember the courageous, pioneering high schoolers.
Next series
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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