[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
June
4: McCarthyism Contexts: The Palmer Raids: A McCarthyism series starts with
the WWI raids that foreshadowed McCarthy’s excesses.
June
5: McCarthyism Contexts: Roy Cohn: The series continues with the figure who
embodies McCarthyism’s hypocrisies—and something more.
June
6: McCarthyism Contexts: McCarthy’s Lies and Rise: Three telling falsehoods
that foreshadowed McCarthy’s public role, as the series rolls on.
June
7: McCarthyism Contexts: Edward R. Murrow: The special report that helped
begin McCarthy’s fall, and the response that only hastened it further.
June
8: McCarthyism Contexts: The Crucible and The Front: The series concludes
with an allegorical and a literal cultural response to McCarthyism.
June
9-10: McCarthyism Contexts: The Beginning of the End: A special post on the
anniversary of Joseph Welch’s famous question about McCarthy’s decency.
June
11: The Supreme Court and Progress: Worcester v. Georgia: For the week of
#LovingDay, a Supreme Court series starts with the decision that couldn’t stop
a tragedy but did make history.
June
12: The Supreme Court and Progress: Loving v. Virginia: The series
continues with two underremembered contexts for the historic 1967 decision.
June
13: The Supreme Court and Progress: United States v. Wong Kim Ark: One
positive and one negative side to two historic 1890s decisions, as the series
rules on.
June
14: The Supreme Court and Progress: Brown v. Board of Education: The
forgotten figures at the heart of one of our most crucial decisions.
June
15: The Supreme Court and Progress: Lawrence v. Texas: The series concludes
with two historical contexts for a shockingly recent case.
June
16-17: The Courts and Progress in 2018: A special, now frustratingly
relevant weekend post on the courts and progress in our own moment.
June
18: Beach Reads: The Hardy Boys: A summer reading series starts with one of
the books that powerfully sparked my young imagination.
June
19: Beach Reads: John Bellairs: The series continues with the author and
book that helped push me out of my comfort zone.
June
20: Beach Reads: Trout Fishing in America: A book that greatly expanded my
sense of what literature can be and so, as the series reads on.
June
21: Beach Reads: The Kingdom of Matthias: The book that helped open my eyes
to a career opportunity and disciplinary path.
June
22: Beach Reads: The Day of the Locust: The series concludes with a book
that reminds me of how far I still have to go.
June
23-24: Crowd-sourced Beach Reads: One of my favorite crowd-sourced beach
reads of the year, featuring tons of suggestions from fellow BeachReadStudiers—add
yours in comments, please!
June
25: Summer Class Readings: “The Tenth of January”: A series following up my
summer teaching starts with Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ genre-bending short story.
June
26: Summer Class Readings: “Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100”: The series continues
with Martín
Espada’s controversial and crucial poem about work and war.
June
27: Summer Class Readings: “Of the Passing of the First-born”: The most
painful, difficult and powerful chapter of W.E.B. Du Bois’s American classic,
as the series rolls on.
June
28: Summer Class Readings: Love Medicine: Two complementary roles for the
framing chapters of Louise Erdrich’s wonderful short story cycle.
June
29: Summer Class Readings: The Book of Salt: The series concludes with
Monique Truong’s wonderful historical novel.
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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