[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
January
3: 2022 Anniversaries: 1772 and the Revolution: A New Year’s series kicks
off with three important pre-Revolutionary moments from 250 years ago.
January
4: 2022 Anniversaries: 1822 and Monrovia: The series continues with a few
layers to the fraught founding of a West African settlement and nation 200
years ago.
January
5: 2022 Anniversaries: 1872 and Henry Wilson: Why becoming the Vice
President was only the second most important thing Henry Wilson did 150 years
ago, as the series rolls on.
January
6: 2022 Anniversaries: 1922 and “The Waste Land”: Two AmericanStudies
contexts for a decidedly non-American masterpiece published 100 years ago.
January
7: 2022 Anniversaries: 1972 Films: The series concludes with the telling
visions of violence in three films celebrating their 50th anniversary
this year.
January
8-9: 2022 Predictions: A special weekend post sharing a few predictions for
the year to come in American politics, society, and solidarity!
January
10: Women in Politics: Victoria Woodhull’s Campaign: In honor of the first
woman elected to the Senate, a series on women in American politics kicks off
with the controversial and compelling story of the first woman to run for
president.
January
11: Women in Politics: Jeannette Rankin’s Pacifism: The series continues
with the historical anti-war activists who were the real wonder women.
January
12: Women in Politics: Hattie Caraway’s Elections: On the 90th
anniversary of her groundbreaking election, one interesting detail from each of
Caraway’s three Senate campaigns.
January
13: Women in Politics: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Flight: One of the most famous
American flights and one that really should be, as the series rolls on.
January
14: Women in Politics: Shirley Chisholm’s Campaigns: The series concludes
with two telling political efforts beyond Chisholm’s groundbreaking
presidential campaign.
January
15-16: Crowd-sourced Women in Politics: My latest great crowd-sourced post,
featuring the responses and thoughts of fellow AmericanStudiers—add yours in
comments, please!
January
17: Spring Semester Previews: Major Authors: W.E.B. Du Bois: My annual Spring
semester previews kick off with three of the many Du Bois texts that speak to
our current moment.
January
18: Spring Semester Previews: 19th Century Women Writers: The
series continues with three of the many reasons why I’m requiring my Grad class
students to purchase one book.
January
19: Spring Semester Previews: First Year Writing II: Three genres of papers
that I’m excited to get and read from my First Year Writing students, as the
series teaches on.
January
20: Spring Semester Previews: American Lit II: The three books I’m requiring
my survey students to purchase (for the first time in a few years), and why.
January
21: Spring Semester Previews: The Short Story Online: The series concludes
with three stimulating story pairings from my accelerated online course.
January
22-23: Spring Semester Previews: Two Sandlots: A brief weekend update on
the book project that I’ll also be working on this Spring!
January
24: American Gangsters: The Godfather Part II: For the 75th
anniversary of Al Capone’s death, a GangsterStudying series kicks off with the profoundly
American layers to our greatest gangster story.
January
25: American Gangsters: Capturing Capone: The series continues with three
pop culture representations of Capone on the anniversary of his death.
January
26: American Gangsters: Gangster Rap: Three telling stages in the evolution
of an American musical genre, as the series rolls on.
January
27: American Gangsters: Aaron Hernandez: A tragic sports scandal and the
allure and illusions of the gangster life.
January
28: American Gangsters: The Sopranos: The series concludes with the minor
Season 1 characters who embody the real strengths of the troubling TV show.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
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