[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
August
5: Remembering Marilyn Monroe: Her Death: On the anniversary of Monroe’s
tragic death, a MonroeStudying series starts with why that tragedy has become
unnecessarily controversial.
August
6: Remembering Marilyn Monroe: Her American Origins: The series continues
with three under-remembered, tellingly American details from Monroe’s early
life and identity.
August
7: Remembering Marilyn Monroe: Her Films: Three stages of Monroe’s brief
but impressively multi-layered filmography, as the series rolls on.
August
8: Remembering Marilyn Monroe: Her Marriages: How each of Monroe’s three
marriages reflects different mid-20th century American contexts.
August
9: Remembering Marilyn Monroe: “Candle in the Wind”: The series concludes
with three ways Elton John’s iconic song captures key elements of Monroe in and
beyond the myths.
August
10: Birthday Bests: 2010-2011: My annual bday series starts with 34
favorite posts from the blog’s first year.
August
11: Birthday Bests: 2011-2012: 35 favorites from year 2!
August
12: Birthday Bests: 2012-2013: 36 from year 3!
August
13: Birthday Bests: 2013-2014: 37 from year 4!
August
14: Birthday Bests: 2014-2015: 38 from year 5!
August
15: Birthday Bests: 2015-2016: 39 from year 6!
August
16: Birthday Bests: 2016-2017: 40 from year 7!
August
17: Birthday Bests: 2017-2018: 41 from year 8!
August
18: Birthday Bests: 2018-2019: And my newest bday post, 42 favorites from
this past, 9th year of AmericanStudying!
August
19: Cville Influences: Proal Heartwell: For my annual post-Charlottesville
series, I focused on influences from my Cville childhood, starting with my
favorite teacher.
August
20: Cville Influences: William Byers: The series continues with the man who
taught me to swim and can teach us all about the histories of segregation and
race in Cville.
August
21: Cville Influences: Four More Public School Teachers: Four more
wonderful Charlottesville public school teachers and influences, as the series
rolls on.
August
22: Cville Influences: Steve Cushman: Professional, poetic, and personal
inspirations from my second favorite University of Virginia Professor.
August
23: Cville Influences: Satyendra Huja: The series concludes with the quiet
influences of diversity and their potently loud effects.
August
24-25: Cville Influences: Bellamy Brown: The City Council campaign of a
Cville peer helps me highlight how my own generation are adding our influences
to the city and world.
August
26: Talking We the People: Early Talks: A series on book talks for my new
book starts with how I shaped the ideas through early talks at a NH discussion
group, the Gardner Museum, and FSU.
August
27: Talking We the People: Shirley Prison: The series continues with what
was distinct about talking We the People
in a prison classroom, and what was inspiringly the same.
August
28: Talking We the People: Needham Public Library: An amazing chance to
talk about the book in the library where I wrote it (and my last three), and in
front of the two young men who inspired it.
August
29: Talking We the People: Toadstool Bookstore: Three inspiring individual
conversations at my most recent book talk, as the series reads on.
August
30: Talking We the People: Upcoming Talks: The series concludes with three
upcoming talks that illustrate the breadth of spaces and audiences for which I’d
love to talk We the People!
Next series
begins 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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