[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
May
29-30: Sarah Satkowski’s Guest Post on T.C. Boyle: My second great May
Guest Post from a student in Robin Field’s Immigration Fiction class at King’s
College!
May
31: Remembering Memorial Day: My annual Memorial Day post on what we don’t
remember about Memorial Day, and why we should.
June
1: Decoration Day Histories: Frederick Douglass: A Decoration Day series
kicks off with one of the great American speeches.
June
2: Decoration Day Histories: Roger Pryor: The series continues with the
invitation and speech that mark two shifts in American attitudes.
June
3: Decoration Day Histories: “Rodman the Keeper”: A short story that helps
us remember a community for whom the holiday’s meanings didn’t shift, as the
series commemorates on.
June
4: Decoration Day Histories: So What?: The series concludes with three
reasons to remember Decoration Day alongside Memorial Day.
June
5-6: A Memorial Day Tribute: A special weekend post on the fallen soldiers
and veterans’ communities whom we should also better remember.
June
7: Basketball Stories: James Naismith: A series for the NBA’s 75th
birthday kicks off with three interesting contexts for the sport’s inventor.
June
8: Basketball Stories: Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell: The series
continues with a clear distinction between two iconic greats—and why it’s not
quite so clear.
June
9: Basketball Stories: Magic Johnson: Genuine high and low points for the
legendary Lakers star, and what they both exemplify, as the series dribbles on.
June
10: Basketball Stories: MJ or LeBron—or Kareem?: Two layers to the GOAT
debate, and the player I’d nominate instead.
June
11: Basketball Stories: WNBA Stars: The series concludes with five WNBA
stars who help us remember the league’s past and present.
June
12-13: Crowd-sourced Basketball Stories: My latest crowd-sourced post,
featuring thoughts from and tributes to fellow BasketballStudiers.
June
14: American Whistleblowers: Daniel Ellsberg: A series for the Pentagon Papers’
50th anniversary kicks off with three stages in a lifelong fight for
transparency and truth.
June
15: American Whistleblowers: Karen Silkwood: The whistleblower series
continues with two well-known sides to Silkwood’s story, and one that needs
more attention.
June
16: American Whistleblowers: Jeffrey Wigand: Two things Michael Mann’s
movie gets right about Wigand, and one layer it’s important to add.
June
17: American Whistleblowers: Edward Snowden: Historical parallels to the 21st
century whistleblower’s contradictions, and how to reconcile them.
June
18: American Whistleblowers: Chelsea Manning: The particularly fraught and
vital role of wartime whistleblowers, as the series rolls on.
June
19-20: American Whistleblowers: Alexander Vindman: The series concludes
with the opening paragraphs of my new book, on a critical patriotic
contemporary whistleblower.
June
21: Vaccine Studying: Smallpox: For the 300th anniversary of
Zabdiel Boylston’s first smallpox inoculations, three figures who deserve
memory beyond the Boston doctor.
June
22: Vaccine Studying: John Franklin Enders: The series continues with two
types of challenging collective histories we can better remember through the “Father
of Modern Vaccines.”
June
23: Vaccine Studying: Polio: Three ways to engage more fully with the
complex histories of the polio vaccine, as the series jabs on.
June
24: Vaccine Studying: The Measles: Three telling stages in the history of a
frustratingly persistent disease.
June
25: Vaccine Studying: Covid-19: The series concludes with my shortest and
most pointed post ever.
4th
of July book series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d
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