[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
July 29:
Martin Sheen Studying: Youthful Origin Points: A series for the legend’s 84th
birthday kicks off with three foundational moments that helped make the man.
July
30: Martin Sheen Studying: Catholic Activism: The series continues with a
great example of art imitating life.
July
31: Martin Sheen Studying: Estévez Legacies: Two important ways that Sheen’s
birth and legal name have carried on, as the series rolls on.
August
1: Martin Sheen Studying: The West Wing: The iconic actor was almost
President Bartlett, and two ways to AmericanStudy the one who was.
August
2: Martin Sheen Studying: The series concludes with two ways the sitcom
pushed our cultural boundaries, and one way it happily did not.
August
3-4: A Proudly Tearful Tribute: Before we dropped my older son at college,
a tribute to a few of the countless ways the boys have inspired me.
August
5-18: Birthday Bests: I won’t link them all individually here, but this was
the start of my annual series highlighting some favorite posts from each of the
blog’s now 14 (!) years.
August
19: NashvilleStudying: Three Origin Points: A series on my son’s new
hometown kicks off with three communities that together built the city.
August
20: NashvilleStudying: Cholera: The series continues with how a devastating
epidemic connected Nashville to the nation and the world.
August
21: NashvilleStudying: The Fisk Jubilee Singers: They were from Memphis,
but I couldn’t resist dedicating one post in the series to this amazing
cultural group.
August
22: NashvilleStudying: Altman’s Film: AmericanStudies contexts for three of
the many character in Robert Altman’s sweeping masterpiece, as the series sings
on.
August
23: NashvilleStudying: Kane Brown: And speaking of singing, a tribute to
our favorite new country artist who’s a lot more.
August
26: American Catholics: Maryland: In honor of Elizabeth Ann Seton’s 250th
birthday, a series on American Catholics kicks off with ideals and realities of
the Catholic colony.
August
27: American Catholics: Anti-Catholic Prejudice: The series continues with
the frustratingly long reach of conspiracy theories.
August
28: American Catholics: Elizabeth Ann Seton: For her 250th,
three telling stages in the life of the first American Saint.
August
29: American Catholics: The Catholic Worker: Three telling details about
Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin’s groundbreaking newspaper, as the series rolls
on.
August
30: American Catholics: Carlo Acutis: The series concludes with what’s familiar,
what’s new, and what’s complicated about the young man likely to be the first
21st century Saint.
Fall
Semester previews start Monday,
Ben
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