[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
November
27-28: Emily Lauer’s Guest Post on Afrofuturism in Museums: The month
started with my latest great Guest Post, from multi-Guest Poster and longtime
friend of the blog Emily Lauer!
November
29: Project Gutenberg at 50: American Indian Stories: For this wonderful
web archive’s 50th birthday, I wanted to highlight texts you can
read for free there, starting with Zitkala-Ŝa’s collection.
November
30: Project Gutenberg at 50: Ramona: The series continues with Helen Hunt
Jackson’s historical and political romance.
December
1: Project Gutenberg at 50: The House of the Seven Gables: Speaking of
historical romances, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s under-rated second novel, as the
series reads on.
December
2: Project Gutenberg at 50: The Squatter and the Don: I’ve written many
times about Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s historical romance, and it remains a
must-read for all 21st century Americans.
December
3: Project Gutenberg at 50: The Marrow of Tradition: The series concludes
with my favorite American novel!
December
4-5: Crowd-sourced Project Gutenberg Reading List: My latest crowd-sourced
post, featuring suggestions for other online archives and collections—add yours
in comments, please!
December
6: Pearl Harbor Histories: The Attack: A Pearl Harbor 70th anniversary
series kicks off with three little-known histories that add to our
understanding of the attack.
December
7: Pearl Harbor Histories: The Conspiracy Theory: The series continues with
the conspiracy theory that doesn’t hold up but is illuminating nonetheless.
December
8: Pearl Harbor Histories: The Tokyo Trials: The complex question of
whether and when a military attack is also a war crime, as the series rolls on.
December
9: Pearl Harbor Histories: The Varsity Victory Volunteers: A post-Pearl
Harbor group who embody the best of the war, Hawai’i, and America.
December
10: Pearl Harbor Histories: The Film: The series concludes with the uses
and abuses of history in Michael Bay’s most serious blockbuster.
December
11-12: Pearl Harbor Histories: Remembering Infamous Days: A special weekend
post on the challenging and crucial question of how we remember our most
infamous days.
December
13: Fall Semester Recaps: First Year Experience Seminar: A series of
reflections on good moments in a very difficult semester kicks off with a discussion
that exemplified the goals of this new course.
December
14: Fall Semester Recaps: Honors Lit Seminar: The series continues with an
unplanned discussion that turned into one of my favorites in any class.
December
15: Fall Semester Recaps: English Studies Capstone: An inspiring chat with
Kevin Gannon and my Capstone students, as the series reflects on.
December
16: Fall Semester Recaps: Online American Lit Survey: How small follow-ups
with students can make a big difference, especially in online classes.
December
17: Fall Semester Recaps: Adult Learning Class on the 1920s: The series
concludes with a particularly eye-opening conversation in one of my latest
adult ed classes.
December
18-19: Spring Semester Previews: A special weekend post on three of the many
things I’m looking forward to in Spring 2022, uncertain and fraught as it may
be.
December
20: Wishes for the AMST Elves: Higher Ed Funding: My annual holiday wishes
series kicks off with an urgent wish for my longtime professional community.
December
21: Wishes for the AMST Elves: Digital Yoknapatawpha: The series continues
with my wishes for my Dad’s newest and most impressive digital humanities
project.
December
22: Wishes for the AMST Elves: Ilene Railton’s Novel: My wishes for the
debut novel from my favorite creative writer, as the series wishes on.
December
23: Wishes for the AMST Elves: A Developing Debater: My wishes for one of
the new activities and talents of my awesome younger son.
December
24: Wishes for the AMST Elves: A New Driver: The series concludes with my
wishes for safety and success for my older son, 16 yesterday and about to start
driving!
December
25-26: Wishes for the AMST Elves: A Special Holiday Wish: But wait, one
more—a wish for all of us to move toward critical optimism and patriotism, and
a few models of those vital perspectives.
December
27: Year in Review: The Braves: A series on things I liked in 2021 kicks
off with my childhood baseball team and the need to move past nostalgic names
and rituals.
December
28: Year in Review: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: The series continues
with two strikingly thoughtful AmericanStudies layers to the hit Marvel show.
December
29: Year in Review: Ted Lasso: How the smash show challenges our narratives
of both optimism and anti-heroes, as the series reviews on.
December
30: Year in Review: James Bond: A subtle but striking (and SPOILER-y) moment
that demonstrates how Daniel Craig’s Bond films have helped the franchise
evolve.
December
31: Year in Review: New Novels: The series and year conclude with three
wonderful novels I read this year!
New Year’s
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d
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