Saturday, June 26, 2021

June 26, 2021: June 2021 Recap

[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 like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to contribute? Lemme know!

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