[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
July
31-August 1: Hettie Williams’ Guest Post on Black Women in America: The
month started with my most recent Guest Post and another awesome one—share your
ideas for Guest Posts and add your voice to that mix!
August
2: AmericanStudies Websites: Steve Railton’s Trio: On the web’s 30th
anniversary, a series on AMST websites kicks off with the three created by my
favorite digital AmericanStudier!
August
3: AmericanStudies Websites: The Valley of the Shadow: The series continues
with a few things we can still learn from a groundbreaking early site.
August
4: AmericanStudies Websites: Crossroads: The frustrating fragility of the
internet and the need for collective memory, as the series links on.
August
5: AmericanStudies Websites: The Octo: The series concludes with the vital
role of community and solidarity in navigating the scholarly web.
August
6: Crowd-sourced AmericanStudies Websites: Crowd-sourced AMST websites, including
a couple more from me as well—add your nominees in comments, please!
August
7: Birthday Bests: 2010-2011: My annual series of bday highlights kicks off
(I won’t say any more about the rest, but here are the links if you want to
check them out)!
August
8: Birthday Bests: 2011-2012:
August
9: Birthday Bests: 2012-2013:
August
10: Birthday Bests: 2013-2014:
August
11: Birthday Bests: 2014-2015:
August
12: Birthday Bests: 2015-2016:
August
13: Birthday Bests: 2016-2017:
August
14: Birthday Bests: 2017-2018:
August
15: Birthday Bests: 2018-2019:
August
16: Birthday Bests: 2019-2020:
August
17: Birthday Bests: 2020-2021:
August
18: Cville Updates: Those Statues: My annual post-bday Virginia series
kicks off with a few options for what to do now that those damn statues have
finally come down.
August
19: Cville Updates: UVa Memorials to Enslaved Laborers: The series continues
with a couple awesome things about a wonderful new Cville memorial.
August
20: Cville Updates: Proal Heartwell: Three great books by my favorite
Charlottesville High School teacher, as the series updates on.
August
21-22: Mark Lorenzoni: The series concludes with a tribute post to an
awesome Cville leader who made sure my youthful long-distance running was never
lonely.
August
23: American Teens: “Summertime Blues” and the 26th Amendment:
In honor of my two (!) high schoolers (!!!), a TeenStudying series kicks off
with a classic song and a generation-shifting amendment.
August
24: American Teens: Lost Boys: The series continues with contextualizing
and challenging 80s pop cultural texts that feature boys who are adrift and
endangered.
August
25: American Teens: Good Will Hunting and Ordinary People: How two films
use therapy to tell the stories of two troubled, telling teens, as the series
rolls on.
August
26: American Teens: “All Summer Long” and Nostalgia: Classic rock,
pseud-nostalgia, and the role of pop culture in all of our 21st
century lives.
August
27: American Teens: John Hughes Films: The series concludes with
AmericanStudies takeaways from three of the director’s classic teen flicks!
Fall semester
previews start 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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