[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
October
1-2: Kelly Marino’s Guest Post on The “American Queen”: “Sweetheart” Bracelets,
Jewelry Trends, and the World Wars: Another great month of Guest Posts was kicked
off with Kelly Marino on material culture, identity, and American history!
October
3: Bad Presidents: James Buchanan: For Rutherford B. Hayes’ birthday, a
series on bad presidents kicks off with the bad one who helps us resist narratives
of inevitability.
October
4: Bad Presidents: Rutherford B. Hayes: The series continues with the
birthday boy and why the election of 1876 was just the tip of the badness iceberg.
October
5: Bad Presidents: William McKinley: Two reasons why I can’t entirely mourn
our third assassinated president, as the series rolls on.
October
6: Bad Presidents: Calvin Coolidge: How a pre-presidency moment foreshadows
the worst of a 1920s administration.
October
7: Bad Presidents: Gerald Ford: The series concludes with a presidential
and legal decision that set a very bad precedent indeed.
October
8: Bad Presidents: Donald Trump: But you didn’t think I could AmericanStudy
bad presidents without some thoughts on our most recent and most bad bad
president yet, did you?
October
8-9: Anita Siraki’s Guest Post on Interview with the Vampire: Another great
Guest Post, this time Anita Siraki on the new adaptation of Anne Rice’s vampire
stories!
October
10: RunningStudying: Ragged Mountain Running: A series on running kicks off
with a childhood influence who exemplifies the best of running and community.
October
11: RunningStudying: The Boston Marathon: The series continues with three
layers to the story of the first (1897) Boston Marathon.
October
12: RunningStudying: Prefontaine on Film: A telling storytelling difference
between the two late 90s Prefontaine films, as the series strides on.
October
13: RunningStudying: FloJo and JJK: Two interesting AmericanStudies
contexts for a pair of interconnected all-time greats.
October
14: RunningStudying: Three Current Runners: The series concludes with AmericanStudies
takeaways from three 21st century athletes.
October
15-16: RunningStudying: Aidan Railton’s Guest Post on Strava: Definitely my
favorite Guest Post yet, Aidan Railton on what social media has meant to his
running career!
October
17: HUAC Histories: Three Precursors: For the 75th anniversary of
the first HUAC trials, a series on the controversial committee begins with
three precursors to its work.
October
18: HUAC Histories: The Blacklist: The series continues with three stages
to HUAC’s divisive and destructive attacks on cultural figures.
October
19: HUAC Histories: Chambers, White, and Hiss: Espionage, railroading, and
the true complexity of historical nuance, as the series rolls on.
October
20: HUAC Histories: McCarthy and Mythic Patriotism: An excerpt from my most
recent book that highlights the mythic patriotism of Joseph McCarthy.
October
21: HUAC Histories: The Final Years: The series concludes with a few
telling histories to the committee’s often-forgotten final couple decades.
October
22-23: HUAC and McCarthyism in Pop Culture: A special weekend post on two
novels and four films that represent different sides to these fraught
histories.
October
24: PBS People: Fred Rogers: A series on PBS people for Bob Ross’ 80th
birthday starts with why niceness and activism aren’t incompatible, and when
niceness isn’t nearly enough.
October
25: PBS People: Jim Henson: The series continues with why it’s absolutely right,
and not nearly enough, to connect the groundbreaking puppeteer to PBS.
October
26: PBS People: LeVar Burton: Why the host of an iconic PBS show was as
important as the content, as the series educates on.
October
27: PBS People: NewsHour Hosts: AmericanStudies takeaways from two pairs of
hosts for the long-running news program.
October
28: PBS People: Bob Ross: The series concludes with two influences on and
one legacy of the artistic icon on his 80th birthday.
Halloween
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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