[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
February
1: Sports in 2021: COVID: A Super Bowl series on sports in 2021 kicks off
with playing & watching sports during a pandemic, past and present.
February
2: Sports in 2021: Activism: The series continues with the huge step that
athlete activists took in 2020, and where we go from here.
February
3: Sports in 2021: The Olympics: The limits of traditions and how one can
potentially evolve into something better, as the series plays on.
February
4: Sports in 2021: The NCAA: What this year has revealed and reaffirmed
about college athletics, and what’s still possible.
February
5: Sports in 2021: Banning Football?: Revisiting a prior and still relevant
debate at my university.
February
6-7: Sports in 2021: Revolutionary Change: The series concludes with how
the evolution of black quarterbacks reveals how sports can challenge and change
their and our limits.
February
8: Short Stories I Love: “My Kinsman,
Major Molineux”: My annual Valentine’s Day series focuses on short
stories I love, starting with Hawthorne’s ambiguous historical fiction.
February
9: Short Stories I Love: “The Tenth of January”: The series continues with
a short story that combines local color and sentimental fiction, and becomes so
much more.
February
10: Short Stories I Love: “A Sweatshop Romance”: Romance and realism and
why they don’t have to be at odds, as the series reads on.
February
11: Short Stories I Love: “Yellow Woman”: A more problematic kind of fictional
ambiguity and why it’s well worth reading nonetheless.
February
12: Short Stories I Love: 21st Century Stories: The series
concludes with a host of contemporary short stories and authors I love.
February
13-14: Short Stories I Love: Ilene Railton’s Stories: A Valentine’s weekend
special post on the evolving career of my favorite writer, and why we should
all be following it.
February
15: Non-Favorite American Myths: The First Thanksgiving: For my annual
non-favorites series, a collection of non-favorite national myths begins “The
First Thanksgiving.”
February
16: Non-Favorite American Myths: Pocahontas: The series continues with some
of the myths behind one of our most mythologized historical figures.
February
17: Non-Favorite American Myths: George Washington: Three of the many
inaccuracies at the heart of the Washington mythos, as the series trolls on.
February
18: Non-Favorite American Myths: The Self-Made Man: How a national mythos
develops, and the multiple reasons why it’s so destructive.
February
19: Non-Favorite American Myths: The Greatest Generation: The series
concludes with the limits to a mythic vision of an iconic American community.
February
20-21: Crowd-sourced Non-Favorites: Another installment in one of my
favorite posts of the year, the crowd-sourced airing of grievances!
February
22: Florida Histories: The Treaty of Adams-Onís: On the Treaty’s
anniversary, a FloridaStudying series kicks off with how the historic agreement
that brought Florida into the US reveals the darker sides to American
expansion.
February
23: Florida Histories: St. Augustine: The series continues with how and why
to better remember the foundational Hispanic American community.
February
24: Florida Histories: The Everglades: The very American story of the woman
who saved the Everglades, as the series rolls on.
February
25: Florida Histories: Parkland: What’s frustratingly not new and what’s
inspiringly changed when it comes to an infamous school shooting.
February
26: Florida Histories: Cuban American Artists: The series concludes with a
trio of exemplary Cuban American musical artists.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
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