AmericanStudies

One interesting American thing (a technical term, meaning a moment or event, a text, a controversy, an idea, a figure, or whatevertheheckelse I think of) per day, from Ben Railton, a professor of American literature, culture, history, and, natch, Studies.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

May 28, 2019: Decoration Day Histories: Frederick Douglass

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[Following up Monday’s Memorial Day special, a series on some of the complex American histories connected to the holiday’s original iden...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

May 25-27, 2019: Remembering Memorial Day

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[Before a series on Decoration Day , the holiday that preceded and evolved into Memorial Day, a special post on shifting our collective ...
Friday, May 24, 2019

May 24, 2019: As American as Blue Jeans: Advertisements, Then and Now

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[On May 20, 1873 dry goods retailer Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis received a patent for work pants reinforced with metal rivets,...
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