[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
October
30: Contested Elections: 1800: For the 75th anniversary of
“Dewey Defeats Truman,” a series on contested elections starts with the moment
that definitely changed things in Early Republic America, and how it
fortunately didn’t.
October
31: Contested Elections: 1824: The series continues with a contested and
controversial election that frustratingly foreshadows our own moment two
hundred years later.
November
1: Contested Elections: 1948: For that anniversary, on a couple significant
AmericanStudies contexts for the 1948 election beyond the headlines.
November
2: Contested Elections: 1960: Two clearly important factors in one of our
closest elections ever and one more ambiguous one, as the series votes on.
November
3: Contested Elections: 2000: The series concludes with three frustrating
and continuing aftermaths of the most hotly contested presidential election in
our history.
November
6: 13 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: 2010 Origins: For this year’s blog
anniversary series, I highlighted key moments in my development as a public
AmericanStudier, starting with when and how this blog got started!
November
7: 13 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: The Historical Society in 2013: The
series continues with my 2013 connections to a key online public scholarly
connection and community.
November
8: 13 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: Talking Points Memo in 2014: A viral
piece that launched my first public scholarly column and changed everything for
me, as the series reflects on.
November
9: 13 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: Saturday Evening Post in 2018: What my
longest-running and best online public scholarly gig has helped me think about
and do.
November
10: 13 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: #ScholarSunday Threads in 2020: How
I’ve tried to build public scholarly community and solidarity through another
new area of work.
November
11: 13 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: Influential Folks: The series
concludes with a handful of the many folks who have been instrumental to my
evolving career.
November
11-12: Kyle Lockwood’s Guest Post: Exploration and the Human Spirit: And
here’s another great anniversary series conclusion, a Guest Post from a recent
FSU English Studies alum!
November
13: AmericanStudying the Blues: Scott Joplin: For W.C. Handy’s 150th
birthday, a BluesStudying series kicks off with the composer who helped start
it all.
November
14: AmericanStudying the Blues: Robert Johnson: The series continues with
one reason I really like the Devil folktale, and one way I’d push back.
November
15: AmericanStudying the Blues: Billie Holliday: AmericanStudies takeaways
from the two versions of Lady Sings the
Blues, as the series sings on.
November
16: AmericanStudying the Blues: W.C. Handy: Three texts through which we
can trace the legacy of the “Father of the Blues” on his 150th
birthday.
November
17: AmericanStudying the Blues: Five More Icons: That’s just the tip of the
BluesStudying iceberg, so here are quick compelling stories for five more
greats.
November
18: AmericanStudying the Blues: 21st Century Artists: The series
concludes with one telling song from five artists who are carrying the
tradition into the 21st century.
November
19-20: Sandra Hamilton’s Guest Post on the Blues in American Culture: And
I’m so excited to have Guest Posts from two FSU English Studies Majors this
month, including this one from current student and future professional writer
Sandra Hamilton!
November
20: Thankful for Scholarly Communities: Fitchburg State: For my annual
Thanks-giving series, I wanted to focus on scholarly communities for which I’m
thankful, starting with two talks this Fall at my home institution of FSU.
November
21: Thankful for Scholarly Communities: Freedom Over Fascism Podcast: The
Thanks continue with a podcast to which I was excited to return for a second
conversation this Fall.
November
22: Thankful for Scholarly Communities: 9 Online Conference: Virtual
conferences have meant a great deal to me in the last few years, and I was very
proud to share my current book project with this conference on baseball
history.
November
23: Thankful for Scholarly Communities: Black in Boston & Beyond Podcast:
The second scholarly podcast to which I made a return visit this Fall, as the
series thanks on.
November
24: Thankful for Scholarly Communities: U of Buffalo’s English Department:
I was honored to give a lecture this Fall for the University of Buffalo’s
Juxtapositions series!
November
25-26: My Biggest Thanks-giving: The series concludes with three of the
countless ways in which my scholarship (like my life in every sense) has been
inspired by my sons.
November
27: Gun Control Histories: The Constitution and Framing Era: For the Brady
Bill’s 30th anniversary, a GunControlStudying series starts where it
has to start.
November
28: Gun Control Histories: Myths, Realities, and the 2012 Election: The
series continues with the developing gun lobby myths around guns in America.
November
29: Gun Control Histories: Parkland: What wasn’t new at all and what definitely
was about a 2018 school shooting and its aftermaths, as the series rolls on.
November
30: Gun Control Histories: The Brady Bill: For the 30th
anniversary of its passage, six figures who together helped move that groundbreaking
legislation forward.
December
1: Gun Control Histories: Jim Jefferies: The series concludes with two of
the many great arguments in a comic case for gun control.
Next
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics
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