Saturday, August 31, 2024

August 31-September 1, 2024: August 2024 Recap

[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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