Saturday, September 1, 2018

September 1-2, 2018: August 2018 Recap


[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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