[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
October
2: LGBT Histories: The Society for Human Rights: An LGBT History Month
series kicks off with three contexts for America’s first gay rights
organization.
October
3: LGBT Histories: Harvey Milk: The series continues with the complexities
of any historical event, and the vital broader issues nonetheless.
October
4: LGBT Histories: 1950s Discriminations: Two horrific 50s decisions and
whether we can find light in such dark moments, as the series remembers on.
October
5: LGBT Histories: Stonewall: The undeniable significance of violence for
civil rights movements, and the need to remember beyond it.
October
6: LGBT Histories: 1970s Advances: The series concludes with three 1973
moments that helped advance the movement.
October
7-8: LGBT Rights in 2023: A special weekend follow-up on progress,
regression, and a crucial fight here in 2023.
October
9: Vice President Studying: Aaron Burr’s Trial: For the 50th
anniversary of Spiro Agnew’s resignation, a VP series kicks off with takeaways
from the most controversial VP.
October
10: Vice President Studying: Andrew Johnson’s Nomination: The series
continues with one good and one horrific thing about a crucial wartime VP
choice.
October
11: Vice President Studying: Henry Wilson’s Book: How a Vice Presidential
publication helps us rethink an entire administration, as the series rolls on.
October
12: Vice President Studying: John C. Calhoun and Spiro Agnew: A significant
difference between the two VPs who resigned, and a linking thread.
October
13: Vice President Studying: Dick Cheney’s Power: The series concludes with
a key explanation for a Vice President’s unprecedented power grabs.
October
14-15: Vice President Studying: Kamala Harris: Another special weekend
follow-up, this one on a couple ways the current VP represents real and
meaningful progress.
October
16: Basketball Stories: James Naismith: With the WNBA season concluding and
a new NBA season upon us a basketball series tips off with contexts for the
sport’s iconic inventor.
October
17: Basketball Stories: Chamberlain and Russell: The series continues with
a clear distinction between two iconic greats, and why it’s not quite so clear.
October
18: Basketball Stories: Magic: Genuine low and high points for the legendary
Laker, as the series dribbles on.
October
19: Basketball Stories: The Harlem Globetrotters: Couldn’t feature a
basketball studying series without sharing my recent Saturday Evening Post column on the Globetrotters!
October
20: Basketball Stories: WNBA Stars: The WNBA too often plays second fiddle
to the NBA, but as the five greats in this series concluding post illustrate,
it’s always had plenty of star power as well.
October
23: New Scholarly Books: A Seat at the Table: A series on great recent
publications kicks off with a vital new anthology co-edited by frequent Guest
Poster Hettie Williams.
October
24: New Scholarly Books: Resistance from the Right: The series continues
with an important recent book that helps us understand the longstanding and
most dangerous threat to higher ed.
October
25: New Scholarly Books: A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: A
wonderful new bio that reminds us of the best of our Congressional leaders, as
the series reads on.
October
26: New Scholarly Books: The Vice President’s Black Wife: Coming up with
titles for public scholarly books ain’t easy, so when one gets it right, it’s
really worth celebrating.
October
27: New Scholarly Books: Democracy Awakening: And the series and month
concludes with the most successful scholarly book of the year from our most
prominent public scholar.
Next
series starts Monday,
Ben
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