[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
December
5: Constitutional Contexts: The Articles of Confederation: A series for the
235th anniversary of Delaware’s ratification kicks off with what was
and wasn’t different in the new nation’s first unifying documents.
December
6: Constitutional Contexts: Anti-Federalists: The series continues with
three equally significant ways to frame the Constitution’s opposition.
December
7: Constitutional Contexts: Delaware: On that historic anniversary, three
relevant contexts for “The First State.”
December
8: Constitutional Contexts: The Bill of Rights: The history, significance,
and limitations of the Constitution’s first evolution, as the series drafts on.
December
9: Constitutional Contexts: The 1790 Naturalization Act: The series concludes
with why a more frustrating Framing document has to be remembered alongside the
Constitution.
December
10-11: Constitutional Contexts: 2022: A special weekend post on one more
frustrating and one more hopeful trend when it comes to the Constitution in
2022.
December
12: Fall Semester Moments: Du Bois and Public Education: My annual semester
recaps series kicks off with an inspiring student response from my 19C African
American Lit course.
December
13: Fall Semester Moments: J. Cole and Me: The series continues with how
lifelong learning also happens at the front of the classroom.
December
14: Fall Semester Moments: Crane, Activism, and the American Dream: Truly,
inspiringly multi-layered and multi-vocal class discussions, as the series
teaches on.
December
15: Fall Semester Moments: Hughes and the Blues: A student paper from my
online class that quite simply blues me away.
December
16: Fall Semester Moments: Adult Ed Challenges: The series concludes with
two important kinds of challenging questions from adult ed students that will
help push my ideas forward.
December
17-18: Signs of Spring (Semester): A special weekend post on a few Spring
2023 courses to which I’m greatly looking forward.
December
19-25: A Defining Wish: Just one multi-part wish for the AmericanStudies
Elves this year, on two things I hope to help us do, and one defining reason
why.
December
26: 2022 in Review: Top Gun and Sequels: My annual year-end series kicks
off with one problem and one possibility with our cultural moment of ubiquitous
sequels.
December
27: 2022 in Review: “Woke” Marvel: The series continues with why complaints
about Marvel’s new phase are silly, and why they’re more destructive than that.
December
28: 2022 in Review: Hot Girl Music: On the birthday of one of the most
badass women I know, the less and more radical layers to a renaissance in
badass women artists.
December
29: 2022 in Review: Baseball and Race: One inspiring and one frustrating
side of baseball’s diversity in 2022, as the series reflects on.
December
30: 2022 in Review: The Big Lie: The series and the year conclude with what’s
not new about the latest attacks on our elections, and what dangerously is.
New Year’s
series starts Monday,
Ben
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