[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
December
4: Board Game Studying: Scrabble: A series for Scrabble’s 75th
anniversary kicks off with three of the moments and stages through which a
homemade game becomes an icon.
December
5: Board Game Studying: Monopoly: The series continues with point,
counterpoint, and counter-counterpoint when it comes to a complex game of capitalism.
December
6: Board Game Studying: Careers: What my sons and I learned about American
society by playing two earlier iterations of Careers, as the series plays on.
December
7: Board Game Studying: War Games: Three board games through which a young
AmericanStudier learned a lot about war histories and stories.
December
8: Board Game Studying: Collaborative Games: The series concludes with the
most common form of collaborative board game, and a unique and beautiful
alternative.
December
9-10: Crowd-sourced Board Game Studying: My first crowd-sourced post in a
while, and a really full and fun one!
December
11: Boston Tea Party Studying: Causes: A series for the Tea Party’s 250th
anniversary kicks off with a few key 1773 moments along the way to that
December protest.
December
12: Boston Tea Party Studying: The Adams Boys: The series continues with
how the two famous cousins complemented each other at the Tea Party.
December
13: Boston Tea Party Studying: Playing Indian: How the Tea Party connects
to a fraught and frustrating American tradition, and one other layer.
December
14: Boston Tea Party Studying: The Peggy Stewart: What differentiates the
Annapolis Tea Party, and what it adds to the Boston story.
December
15: Boston Tea Party Studying: The Shoemaker: The series concludes with why
we should all read a great narrative history about one of the Tea Party participants.
December
16-17: A Tribute to BostonStudiers: I couldn’t share a series on the Boston
Tea Party without paying tribute to some of the many folks from which I’ve
learned a great deal about such histories!
December
18: Fall Semester Finds: Nguyen’s Novel in Capstone: For this semester’s
reflections series I wanted to highlight new texts & ideas I encountered,
starting with Eric Nguyen’s Things We
Lost to the Water in my Capstone course.
December
19: Fall Semester Finds: Espada’s Poem in Ethnic American Lit: The series
continues with a bracing and vital poem I rediscovered in my Ethnic American
Lit course.
December
20: Fall Semester Finds: New Music in Writing I: A couple examples of how
much I always learn from a First-Year Writing assignment, as the series
reflects on.
December
21: Fall Semester Finds: A New Take on Hughes in Am Lit II: How a Blues
musician student opened up new layers to a very familiar poem in my online
American Lit survey.
December
22: Fall Semester Finds: Douglas Stuart from an MA Thesis: The series
concludes with a new author to whom I’ve been introduced by a great current
Graduate student.
December
23: Spring Semester Previews: The first of two weekend follow-ups to the
series, on three courses I’m looking forward to in Spring 2024.
December
23-24: Hamza Suleiman’s Guest Post on Mohja Kahf: And I’m so excited to
share another great Guest Post from one of Robin Field’s King’s College
students!
December
25: Christmas Stories: “A Visit from St. Nicholas”: For a particularly
sentimental holiday series this year, I wanted to highlight Christmas stories I
shared with my sons over the years, starting with the classic poem celebrating
its 200th anniversary this December.
December
26: Christmas Stories: The Father Christmas Letters: The series continues
with three distinct ways to contextualize Tolkien’s classic Christmas texts.
December
27: Christmas Stories: The Night Before the Night Before Christmas: A delightful
new Christmas classic from the legendary Richard Scarry, as the series reads
on.
December
28: Christmas Stories: Ezra Jack Keats and the Snowy Day: On the birthday
of my favorite early childhood educator, a tribute to one of the most
influential children’s books of all time.
December
29: Christmas Stories: A Christmas Carol: The series, month, and year
conclude with two vital lessons from one of the most enduring Christmas
stories.
New Year’s
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics
you’d like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to contribute? Lemme know!
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