[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
October
29-30: Tiffany Wayne’s Guest Post on the Jewel City: Suffrage at the San
Francisco-Panama Pacific International Exposition: The month kicked off
with another great Guest Post!
October
31: Symbolic Scares: The Wendigo: For my annual Halloween series I focused
on the symbolism behind scary stories, starting with a cross-cultural
supernatural legend.
November
1: Symbolic Scares: Sleepy Hollow: The series continues with an original
American scary story that’s also an American origin story.
November
2: Symbolic Scares: Last House on the Left: A horror film that’s more
disturbing in what it makes us cheer for than how it makes us scream, as the
series scares on.
November
3: Symbolic Scares: The Lost Boys: A textbook definition of mindless pop
entertainment, and what it can still symbolize.
November
4: Symbolic Scares: The Shinings: The series concludes with what we can
make of the two opposed endings to the novel and film versions of the same
scary story.
November
5-6: Anya Jabour’s Guest Post on Legionnaire’s Disease: My second great
Guest Post of the week!
November
7: 12 Years of AmericanStudying: Guest Posts I: For AmericanStudier’s 12th
anniversary…
November
8: 12 Years of AmericanStudying: Guest Posts II: I decided to focus on a
favorite aspect…
November
9: 12 Years of AmericanStudying: Guest Posts III: Of the blog from across
these dozen years, …
November
10: 12 Years of AmericanStudying: Guest Posts IV: The awesome Guest Posts I’ve
been able to share!
November
11: 12 Years of AmericanStudying: Guest Posts V: So across these five
posts, here were the 26 most recent Guest Posts!
November
12-13: 12 Years of AmericanStudying: My Reflections: Leading up to this
special weekend post featuring my own reflections on the first 12 years!
November
14: Public Art: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: On the DC memorial’s 40th
anniversary, a public art studying series kicks off with two levels to why that
memorial is so important.
November
15: Public Art: The Shaw Memorial: The series continues with a
historically, culturally, and symbolically crucial monument.
November
16: Public Art: Two Midwestern Statues: The inspiring messages and missing
histories of two linked statues, as the series sculpts on.
November
17: Public Art: The Harriet Wilson Statue: How a wonderful recent statue
corrects a wrong and makes the case for right (and writing).
November
18: Public Art: Murals: The series concludes with a couple links to collections
of awesome public murals!
November
19-20: Lily Hart’s Guest Post on Voices of the River: My third great Guest
Post of the month, which ties a record I hope to keep tying!
November
21: Thanks-givings: Bruce’s Soul: A Thanksgiving series kicks off with a
new album we should all be thank-full for.
November
22: Thanks-givings: Purple Carrot: The series continues with the vegan food
service that has meant a ton to me and my family.
November
23: Thanks-givings: Andor and Willow: Two Disney+ shows that make me
nostalgically thank-full, as the series thanks on.
November
24: Thanks-givings: Fantasy Football: The unique reason I’m very thank-full
for fantasy football!
November
25: Thanks-givings: Young Voters: The series concludes with the American
community for whom all lovers of democracy should be eternally thank-full.
November
28: Video Game Studying: Grand Theft Auto: A series inspired by Pong’s 40th anniversary kicks
off with three aspects of video games we can learn from the GTA series.
November
29: Video Game Studying: Pong: The series continues with two lesser-known
and telling moments in Pong’s history
on its 40th birthday.
November
30: Video Game Studying: Pac-Man: Three ways the arcade smash changed the
game, as the series plays on.
December
1: Video Game Studying: Doom: Two striking and controversial collaborative
sides to the first-person shooter.
December
2: Video Game Studying: App Games: The series concludes with a couple
takeaways from a decade or so of app gaming.
Next
series starts Monday,
Ben
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