[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
August 31: Fall Semester Previews: A Policy of Care: A preview series for a Fall semester unlike any other starts with a new syllabus statement to reflect that new world.
September 1: Fall Semester Previews: Open-Access Texts: The series continues with an impressive open-access resource, and a broader question for us all moving forward.
September 2: Fall Semester Previews: Ungrading: My tentative embrace of a radical pedagogy, and a question that remains, as the series rolls on.
Special Post: The Rock Springs Massacre and Working-Class White Supremacist Violence: I wanted to share here this piece that didn’t end up getting published for my Saturday Evening Post column.
September 3: Fall Semester Previews: Zoom: One thing I’ve learned about teaching in a new format, and what I still haven’t figured out (although I’m getting there as the semester unfolds!).
September 4: Fall Semester Previews: What Doesn’t Change: The series concludes with some continuity and clarity at a chaotic and uncertain time.
September 5-6: Crowd-sourced Fall 2020: Thoughts, plans, concerns, and solidarity from many of my friends and colleagues—add yours in comments!
September 7: History through Games: War Games: One of my more fun series ever kicks off with three board games through which I learned about war histories and stories.
September 8: History through Games: The Oregon Trail: The series continues with three takeaways from the pioneering video game.
September 9: History through Games: Careers: A piece I wrote for the Fitchburg Historical Society newsletter on learning history through the 1970s update of the classic board game.
September 10: History through Games: Video Game Action and Inaction: How two action-packed and one decidedly less active game portray the past, as the series plays on.
September 11: History through Games: History Adventures: The series concludes with a new, interactive digital book series that extends the Choose Your Own Adventure genre to new media.
September 12-13: History through Games: Reacting to the Past: A special weekend post on a few voices from whom I’ve learned about the pedagogical games.
September 14: Nazis in America: Madison Square Garden: Ahead of Project Paperclip’s 75th anniversary, a NaziStudying series starts with the February 1939 NYC rally.
September 15: Nazis in America: Ford, Lindbergh, and Coughlin: The series continues with three famous figures who reflect the depth and breadth of US Nazism.
September 16: Nazis in America: The Plot against America: Three telling and compelling layers to Philip Roth’s alternate historical fiction, as the series marches on.
September 17: Nazis in America: Wernher von Braun: Three striking and smart lines from Tom Lehrer’s satirical song.
September 18: Nazis in America: Neo-Nazis and Charlottesville: The series concludes with how to respond to a resurgent, but not at all new, neo-Nazi movement.
September 19-20: Nazis in America: Project Paperclip and Hunters: For the project’s 75th anniversary, a more historical and a more fictional side to how the Amazon show portrays those histories.
September 21: Legends of the Fall: Young Adult Lit: An AutumnStudying series kicks off with two iconic YA novels that fractured my innocence alongside that of their characters.
September 22: Legends of the Fall: American Pastoral: The series continues with a quiet scene that embodies the loss of innocence far more than the novel’s over-the-top moments.
September 23: Legends of the Fall: The Body and Stand by Me: A novella that’s explicitly about the loss of innocence and a film adaptation that’s decidedly less so, as the series peeps on.
September 24: Legends of the Fall: Presumed Innocent: The multiple levels of revelations about innocence and guilt built into the best mystery fiction.
September 25: Legends of the Fall: “American Pie”: The series concludes with the straightforward and subtler sides to a beloved ballad about the loss of innocence.
September 26-27: Crowd-sourced AutumnStudying: Another full and fun crowd-sourced post—add your AutumnStudying nominations in comments!
September 28: Sports Scandals: The Black Sox: On the 100th anniversary of a key turning point, three ways to contextualize the Black Sox kick off a series on sports scandals.
September 29: Sports Scandals: Rosie Ruiz: The series continues with three layers to the infamous marathon scandal beyond the headlines.
September 30: Sports Scandals: Lance Armstrong: Two broader implications of a scandal that’s easy to pin on an individual bad actor, as the series cheats on.
October 1: Sports Scandals: The Patriots: Two ways the record-breaking NFL dynasty’s scandals foreshadowed the age of Trump.
October 2: Sports Scandals: The Astros: The series concludes with one thing that’s definitely different about the first sports scandal of the 2020s, and the fundamental question of what’s next.
Next series starts Monday,
Ben
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