[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
October
1: National Park Studying: Yosemite: On the anniversary of its
establishment, a National Park series starts with six figures who narrate
Yosemite’s history.
October
2: National Park Studying: Blackstone River Valley: The series continues
with two comparisons for one of our newest National Parks.
October
3: National Park Studying: Everglades: The very American story of Marjory
Stoneman Douglas, the woman who helped save the Everglades, as the series rolls
on.
October
4: National Park Studying: Mesa Verde: Two distinct but complementary
effects of a foundational AmericanStudier National Park moment.
October
5: National Park Studying: Acadia: The series concludes with a few telling
moments in the Maine park’s strikingly French history.
October
6-7: National Historical Parks: A special weekend addendum on one
impressive thing at each of three wonderful National Historical Parks.
October
8: American Gay Studies: Walt Whitman: A National Coming Out Day series
starts with vexing questions of textuality and sexuality with one of our
greatest poets.
October
9: American Gay Studies: Boston Marriages: The series continues with three
examples of a complex and inspiring historical relationship.
October
10: American Gay Studies: The Society for Human Rights: Three contexts for
the history of America’s first gay rights organization, as the series rolls on.
October
11: American Gay Studies: Harvey Milk: A key detail that complicates our
histories of a tragic assassination, and the overarching story that holds in
any case.
October
12: American Gay Studies: Mark Doty: Three genres in which one of our best
contemporary writers considers identity and sexuality.
October
13-14: American Gay Studies: Pop Culture Representations: The series
concludes with three 90s pop culture texts that continue to echo into our
present moment.
October
15: Whaling Histories: New Bedford: A series inspired by Moby-Dick’s anniversary starts with
three stages in the history of “The Whaling City.”
October
16: Whaling Histories: Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard: The series
continues with the divergent whaling and cultural histories of two neighboring
islands.
October
17: Whaling Histories: Writing about Whaling in 2018: The perils and
necessities of writing about disgraced histories, as the series sails on.
October
18: Whaling Histories: Moby-Dick: On its anniversary, why we can’t skip the
whaling sections in Melville’s messy masterpiece.
October
19: Whaling Histories: Contemporary Whaling and Greenpeace: The series
concludes with contemporary histories and responses, and why I’m writing about
them here.
October
20-21: Whaling Histories: Akeia Benard’s Guest Post on The New Bedford Whaling
Museum: My latest Guest Post, from the museum’s Curator of Social History!
October
22: Video Game Studying: Grand Theft Auto: On GTA’s anniversary, a video
game series starts with three sides to games GTA helps us analyze.
October
23: Video Game Studying: Pong: The series continues with two telling
moments in the history of the first blockbuster arcade game.
October
24: Video Game Studying: Pac-Man: Three of the many ways the 1980 smash
changed the game, as the series plays on.
October
25: Video Game Studying: Doom: Two strikingly, controversially communal
sides to the influential first-person shooter.
October
26: Video Game Studying: App Games: The series concludes with a couple
takeaways from a decade of app gaming.
October 27-28:
Crowd-sourced Video Game Studying: I didn’t get to create this post (too busy
book-finishing, on which more in a few days!), but wanted to mention here that
I’d love your video game thoughts on any of the week’s posts!
October
29: GhostStudying: The Turn of the Screw: A Halloween series starts with
two cultural fears lurking beneath Henry James’s ghost story.
October
30: GhostStudying: Beloved: The series continues with the psychological and
historical sides to Toni Morrison’s haunting masterpiece.
October
31: GhostStudying: Haunted Sites: Three exemplary haunted sites from around
the U.S., as the series tricks (or treats) on.
November
1: GhostStudying: Ghostly Contacts: AmericanStudies lessons from three films
about contact with the afterlife.
November
2: GhostStudying: Ghost Stories: The series concludes with psychological
and historical reasons for the enduring appeal of ghost stories.
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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