[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
July
30: 17th Century Histories: Bacon’s Rebellion: On the
rebellion’s anniversary, a 17th century series kicks off with myths
and realities of the famous uprising!
July
31: 17th Century Histories: Jamestown’s First Slaves: The series
continues with what we’ve learned about this originating community, and the
American lesson we can take from them.
August
1: 17th Century Histories: The Massacre at Mystic: Three texts
that together help us remember one of early America’s darkest moments, as the
series rolls on.
August
2: 17th Century Histories: New Amsterdam: Two ways the Dutch
colonial city helps us rethink early american histories.
August
3: 17th Century Histories: Brothers Among Nations: The series
concludes with historian Cynthia van Zandt’s different and more inspiring
vision of the arrival and contact era.
August
4-5: Virginia Historic Sites: The first of two weekend posts, a link-tastic
list of prior posts I’ve written on some of Virginia’s many wonderful sites.
August
4-5: Kathleen Morrissey’s Guest Post: The Bubbles and Borders that Limit Our
Immigration Debates: And secondly, my most recent Guest Post, featuring the
great Kathleen Morrissey on a rhetorical topic of vital contemporary interest.
August
6: Swimming Pool Studying: Gatsby’s Pool: A summer swimming series kicks
off with the tragic dip that’s as difficult to pin down as the mysterious man
who takes it.
August
7: Swimming Pool Studying: Weissmuller and Phelps: The series continues
with the two Olympians whose divergent stories reveal a great deal about their
respective eras.
August
8: Swimming Pool Studying: Cheever’s Swimmer: A pitch-perfect short story
from one of the American masters of the form, as the series swims on.
August
9: Swimming Pool Studying: Fry’s Spring: Four exemplary stages of one of
Charlottesville, Virginia’s most enduring sites.
August
10: Swimming Pool Studying: Canobie Lake Park: The series concludes (and
expands a bit) with a few key stages in the history of a New England summer
attraction.
August
11-12: Segregated Cville: For the one-year anniversary of Charlottesville’s
Unite the Right rally and its aftermaths, highlighting one of my favorite
pieces of writing from the last year.
August
13: Birthday Bests: 2010-2011: The birthday posts start with 34 favorite
posts from the blog’s first year.
August
14: Birthday Bests: 2011-2012: 35 favorite posts from year two!
August
15: Birthday Bests: 2012-2013: 36 favorites from year three!
August
16: Birthday Bests: 2013-2014: 37 favorites from year four!
August
17: Birthday Bests: 2014-2015: 38 favorites from year five!
August
18: Birthday Bests: 2015-2016: 39 favories from year six!
August
19: Birthday Bests: 2016-2017: 40 favorites from year seven!
August
20: Birthday Bests: 2017-2018: And in my newest bday post, 41 favorites
from my 8th year of blogging! Here’s to many more in year nine!
August
21: Contextualizing Cville: Dave Matthews: A post Cville vacation series
starts with AmericanStudying a local and international music legend.
August
22: Contextualizing Cville: Carpetbaggers and Confederates: The series
continues with nostalgia, fear, and the divisions that threaten Cville and the
nation.
August
23: Contextualizing Cville: Mr. Jefferson’s University?: The instructive
early struggles of an eduational pioneer, as the series rolls on.
August
24: Contextualizing Cville: Iron Crown Enterprises: The series concludes with
the rise, fall, and enduring legacy of a Cville gaming company.
August
25-26: Contextualizing Cville: Cville a Year Later: For Cville’s 1-year anniversary,
a few more reflections on where the city is a year later, and where we go from
here.
August
27: SpeechStudying: “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?”: A
series on great American speeches starts with the stunning speech that
challenges us just as much today as it did 150 years ago.
August
28: SpeechStudying: King’s “Dream” Speech: On its 55th
anniversary, the series continues with two rhetorical strategies that make this
speech an all-time great.
August
29: SpeechStudying: “Eulogy on King Philip”: Two models of critical
patriotism in William Apess’s striking Early Republic speech, as the series
rolls on.
August
30: SpeechStudying: Garnet’s “Address”: The contextual and contemporary
importance of a radical antislavery speech.
August
31: SpeechStudying: Three Recent Speeches: The series concludes with recent
and complementary speeches by Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie.
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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