[The most significant part of my work this fall was the launch of my first public scholarly podcast, The Celestials’ Last Game: Baseball, Bigotry, and the Battle for America. A lot of factors helped make that work possible, so for my annual Thanksgiving series I wanted to express my gratitude to a handful of them!]
As I
discussed throughout the podcast, and really got into fully in my Postgame
Press Conference (an extra, 10th episode), one of the most challenging
aspects of telling this story was the significant lack of information about its
key events and histories. That meant I had to do the imaginative work I’ll talk
more about in Friday’s post. But it also meant I had to rely quite a bit on a
few key sources, and none was more crucial than the semi-defunct but
fortunately not entirely lost CEM Connections
website (I’m no longer able to access the site on my computer, but it still
works on my phone, just FYI), and especially its extensive biographical
information on all 120 CEM students. I’ll forever be grateful to the site’s
co-creators Bruce Chan and Dana Young for their work (and to Bruce for his
thoughtful responses to and pushback on the podcast itself, which I also
engaged in that Postgame Press Conference), and can only hope that it
encourages more folks to find their way to the website and continue supporting
their historical projects as well.
Next
thanks tomorrow,
Ben
PS. I’d be
thankful if you’d check out the podcast and let me know your thoughts!
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