[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
March
3: Hockey Histories: Origin Points: On the 150th anniversary of
the first organized hockey game, a series on the sport’s histories kicks off
with three telling layers to that first game.
March
4: Hockey Histories: Fighting: The series continues with the way not to
argue for the sport’s violent tradition, and a possible way to do so.
March
5: Hockey Histories: The Miracle on Ice: The symbolic role of sports in
society, and the line between history and story, as the series skates on.
March
6: Hockey Histories: Black Players: Three groundbreaking players who
together reflect the sport’s gradual evolution towards its more diverse 21st
century community.
March
7: Hockey Histories: Team Trans: The series concludes with two complicated
and equally important ways to contextualize a groundbreaking hockey team.
March
8-9: Significant Sports Studiers: Following up my own SportsStudying, a
special weekend post highlighting Bluesky Starter Packs of other SportsStudiers.
March
10: Spring Breaking at the Movies: Spring Break: A Spring Break series on
cinematic representations of the college tradition starts with more and less
destructive pop culture stereotypes in a 1983 non-classic.
March
11: Spring Breaking at the Movies: Spring Breakers: The series continues with
the fine line between challenging and exploiting the objectification of female
celebrities.
March
12: Spring Breaking at the Movies: From Justin to Kelly: What wasn’t new
about a historic beach bomb, and what was, as the series parties on.
March
13: Spring Breaking at the Movies: Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise:
American anti-intellectualism and the worse and better ways to challenge it.
March
14: Spring Breaking at the Movies: Baywatch: The series concludes with a
repeat of one of my favorite posts, on why the beautiful beach bodies are also
a body of evidence.
March
15-16: Reflections of a College Dad: As I near the end of my first year as
a college dad (and the start of my first year with two young men in college…le
sigh), three of the countless moments when I’ve been pleasantly reminded of my
changed circumstances.
March
17: ScopesStudying: The Butler Act: For the 100th anniversary of
the anti-evolution Tennessee law, a series on it and its famous legal aftermath
kicks off with three historical ironies.
March
18: ScopesStudying: John Scopes: The series continues with three
interesting facts about the science teacher who became the center of one of our
most famous trials.
March
19: ScopesStudying: Bryan and Darrow: Two ways to contextualize the trial’s
most famous debate, as the series evolves on.
March
20: ScopesStudying: Three Plays: How three stage adaptations of the trial
reflect the fraught relationship between art and history.
March
21: ScopesStudying: “Part Man, Part Monkey”: The series concludes with
three layers to one of Springsteen’s funniest and most under-rated tracks (just
ask my wife!).
March
22-23: 21st Century Attacks on Educators: A special weekend post
on what’s new about our horrifying spate of anti-education attacks, and what’s frustratingly
not.
March
24: Patriotic Speeches: Patrick Henry: A series for the 250th
anniversary of the “Give me liberty” speech kicks off with excerpts from book
on the contested history of American patriotism.
March
25: Patriotic Speeches: Frederick Douglass: The series continues with the
stunning critical patriotic speech that’s just as important 170 years later.
March
26: Patriotic Speeches: August Spies: The inspiring patriotic speech that concluded
a farcical show trial, as the series orates on.
March
27: Patriotic Speeches: Margaret Chase Smith: Why we shouldn’t misrepresent
a famous 1950 speech as apolitical, and why it’s well worth celebrating nevertheless.
March
28: Patriotic Speeches: Alexander Vindman: The series concludes with
another excerpt from my book, this one on a crucial 21st century
moment of critical patriotism.
April
Fools series starts Monday,
Ben
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