[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
November 30: Stories of AIDS: Mark Doty: A World AIDS Day series kicks off with the multiple genres of one of the most compelling literary chroniclers of the AIDS epidemic (and beyond).
December 1: Stories of AIDS: World AIDS Day: The series continues with two ways that the global commemoration has evolved, and where we go from here.
December 2: Stories of AIDS: Angels in America and Rent: A groundbreaking play and popular musical that helped change our national conversations, as the series rolls on.
December 3: Stories of AIDS: Three Novels: Three novels from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s that help trace the epidemic’s cultural evolutions.
December 4: Stories of AIDS: The Deuce and Gay New York: The series concludes with an initially minor TV character who emerges alongside a community and a crisis.
December 5-6: AIDS and COVID: A special weekend post featuring a handful of links to public scholarly engagements with what the AIDS epidemic can help us see in our current pandemic.
December 7: Pearl Harbor Histories: The Attack: A Pearl Harbor series begins with three little-known histories that add layers to the attack itself.
December 8: Pearl Harbor Histories: The Conspiracy Theory: The series continues with how the conspiracy theory doesn’t hold up but why it’s illuminating nonetheless.
December 9: Pearl Harbor Histories: The Tokyo Trials: The complex question of whether a military attack is also a war crime, as the series rolls on.
December 10: Pearl Harbor Histories: The Varsity Victory Volunteers: A post-Pearl Harbor community who embody the best of Hawaii and America.
December 11-13: Pearl Harbor Histories: Remembering Infamous Days: The series concludes with the complex, challenging, crucial question of how we remember our most infamous days.
December 14: Fall 2020 Lessons: God Damn It, You’ve Got to Be Kind: A semester recap series like no other kicks off with the Fall’s most fundamental and crucial lesson.
December 15: Fall 2020 Lessons: Ungrading Works: The series continues with two unexpected, but ultimately unsurprising, effects of my first work with a new pedagogical approach.
December 16: Fall 2020 Lessons: Quantity (and Brevity) over Quality: Two tough but unavoidable lessons about my class content, this fall and moving forward, as the series learns on.
December 17: Fall 2020 Lessons: Doing Away with Deadlines: A key policy change I made this Fall, the challenges it presents, and why I’m likely to stick with it nonetheless.
December 18: Fall 2020 Lessons: Contemporary Connections: The series concludes with how this semester amplified and accelerated a gradual evolution in my teaching goals.
December 19-20: Crowd-sourced Fall 2020 Lessons: My latest crowd-sourced post, featuring the reflections of many fellow teachers and friends on this most challenging Fall.
December 21: AmericanWishing: Inspiring Figures: My annual holiday series kicks off with six amazing Americans whose stories should inspire us all.
December 22: AmericanWishing: Great Novels: The series continues with five great American novels we should all read.
December 23: AmericanWishing: Crucial Communities: Five historical communities whose impressive stories we should add to our collective memories, as the series wishes on.
December 24: AmericanWishing: Stunning Poems: Five powerful poems to inspire us all in the new year.
December 25: AmericanWishing: Thoughtful Scholars: Six scholarly voices, past and present, we can all learn from in 2021.
December 26-27: AmericanWishing: My Sons: The series concludes with what I most wish for my sons and their world in 2021.
December 28: Year in Review: Race, Memory, and Justice: My annual year in review series continues with two additional layers to the year’s renewed #BlackLivesMatter movement.
December 29: Year in Review: Climate Change: The series continues with the longstanding history of environmental disasters, and how it’s not nearly sufficient to understanding the present.
December 30: Year in Review: Economic Inequality: The flaws of Hillbilly Elegy, the strengths of Stephen Crane’s “Experiments,” and what 2020 can help us understand about deep poverty.
December 31: Year in Review: Migration and Refugees: A short story that helps cut to the human heart of an unfolding horror, as the series reflects on.
January 1: Year in Review: Public Higher Education: The series (and year) concludes with five links to help us understand the unfolding assault on public higher education.
Next series starts Monday,
Ben
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