[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
July
31: Sibling Studying: The Marx Brothers and the Stooges: A celebratory
series on American siblings kicks off with two groups at the heart of mid-20th
century comedy and culture.
August
1: Sibling Studying: The Grimké Sisters: The series continues with a pair
of sisters who exemplified the power, courage, and complexity of American
abolitionism.
August
2: Sibling Studying: The Wright Brothers: Three lesser-known stories of the
brothers who changed transportation and the world, as the series rolls on.
August
3: Sibling Studying: William and Henry James: The influential and inspiring
relationship between two brothers who echo my own favorite pair of siblings.
August
4: Sibling Studying: The Eaton Sisters: The series concludes with two
columns where I’ve highlighted the amazing Eaton sisters, and one thing I’d
add.
August
5-6: Sibling Studying: The Railton Boys: Couldn’t share a SiblingStudying
series without paying tribute to my favorite pair of brothers!
August
7: Birthday Bests: 2010-2011: My annual birthday series of favorite posts
from across the blog’s nearly 13 years started here…
August
8: Birthday Bests: 2011-2012:
August
9: Birthday Bests: 2012-2013:
August
10: Birthday Bests: 2013-2014:
August
11: Birthday Bests: 2014-2015:
August
12: Birthday Bests: 2015-2016:
August
13: Birthday Bests: 2016-2017:
August
14: Birthday Bests: 2017-2018:
August
15: Birthday Bests: 2018-2019:
August
16: Birthday Bests: 2019-2020:
August
17: Birthday Bests: 2020-2021:
August
18: Birthday Bests: 2021-2022:
August
19-20: Birthday Bests: 2022-2023: … and concluded here with 46 favorite
posts from the last year on the blog!
August
21: Cville Places: Barracks Road: For this year’s Cville series, I focused
on symbolic spaces, starting with one that captures the elided but evocative
histories all around us.
August
22: Cville Places: Fry’s Spring: The series continues with four stages to
one of Cville’s most exemplary sites.
August
23: Cville Places: Vinegar Hill: Sharing a Saturday Evening Post column on one of the city’s most tragic
spaces, as the series rolls on.
August
24: Cville Places: The Jefferson School: What a historic educational place
can tell us about three distinct 20th century eras.
August
25: Cville Places: The Paramount Theater: The series concludes with three
telling details about the city’s most historic theater.
August
26-27: Cville Places: The Public Schools: A special weekend tribute to some
of the many amazing folks I worked with in my own most influential Cville
space.
August
28: Contextualizing the March on Washington: 1941 Origins: For the March’s
60th anniversary, a series on key contexts kicks off with 1941
origin points.
August
29: Contextualizing the March on Washington: 1957 Prelude: The series continues
with how a 1957 march foreshadowed 1963, and how it differed.
August
30: Contextualizing the March on Washington: The Big Six: A couple
inspiring elements of the 1963 March’s leadership, and one frustrating one.
August
31: Contextualizing the March on Washington: Marian, Mahalia, and Odetta:
The 1963 musical performers who dominated the headlines, and three whom we
should better remember.
September
1: Contextualizing the March on Washington: Speeches: The series concludes
with three of the March’s many important orations (beyond its most famous
one).
Fall
Semester previews start Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics
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