July 29-30, 2023: July 2023 Recap

[A Recapof the month that was in AmericanStudying.]

July3: Patriotism in 2023: What the Gerrymander? Podcast: For July 4th,I shared some of the many ways I’ve been able to talk about my patriotism book,starting with this excellent podcast on contemporary politics.

July4: Patriotism in 2023: Black Legislators, Past and Present: The seriescontinued with the most recent of the many SaturdayEvening Post columns where I’ve talked American patriotism.

July5: Patriotism in 2023: Adult Learning Conversations: What I shared andlearned in an adult learning class on patriotism, as the series talks on.

July6: Patriotism in 2023: Critical Patriotism and the Court: One particulararticle and context that an adult learning student shared with me after thataforementioned class.

July7: Patriotism in 2023: “Patriotic Education”: The series concludes with afrustratingly ubiquitous current context for the contested history of Americanpatriotism.

July8-9: Patriotism in 2023: Talking Of Thee I Sing: Which is one of manyreasons why I’d love any and every chance to keep talking about this book, soplease share such opportunities at any time!

July10: AmericanStudying Summer Jams: Summer Wind: It ain’t summer without summerjams, so this week I AmericanStudied a handful of summer songs, starting with aSinatra classic that reveals a lot about performance, authorship, andcollective memory.

July11: AmericanStudying Summer Jams: Summertime Blues: The series continueswith what a summer classic reveals about the voices of youth.

July12: AmericanStudying Summer Jams: Summer in the City: Whether all art is political,and why the question matters more than the answer, as the series rocks on.

July13: AmericanStudying Summer Jams: Summertime: Two distinct but equallysignificant ways to AmericanStudy the Fresh Prince and his most famous summerjam.

July14: AmericanStudying Summer Jams: All Summer Long: The series concludeswith classic rock, pseudo-nostalgia, and the undeniable role of pop culture inour lives.

July17: Seneca Falls Studying: Quaker Communities: For the 175thanniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, a series on its histories andcontexts starts with a delightfully specific and importantly broad layer to theConvention’s origins.

July18: Seneca Falls Studying: The Declaration: The series continues with oneobviously important choice in the Convention’s key document, and one subtlerone.

July19: Seneca Falls Studying: Douglass and Suffrage: Three ways in which FrederickDouglass contributed to the fight for women’s suffrage, as the series conveneson.

July20: Seneca Falls Studying: Rochester: Why an immediate follow-up conventionwas so important, and two of its more groundbreaking details.

July21: Seneca Falls Studying: The Historic Site’s Site: The series concludeswith three of the many interesting things you can find on the Women’s RightsNational Historical Park’s website.

July22-23: The 21st Century Women’s Movement: A special weekendfollow-up on five figures who embody the contemporary fight for women’s rights.

July24: Korean War Studying: The Armistice: For the 70th anniversaryof the Korean War’s Armistice, a series on that forgotten conflict starts withwhy that concluding treaty took so long, and what has lingered for the sevendecades since.

July25: Korean War Studying: MacArthur and Truman: The series continues withwhat differentiates the war’s most prominent American leaders, and what linksthem nonetheless.

July26: Korean War Studying: Films: Three films from just a three-year periodthat reflect three stages of cultural representation, as the series fights on.

July27: Korean War Studying: M*A*S*H: I couldn’t write a KoreanWarStudyingseries without analyzing the three iterations of the famous portrayal ofwartime doctors.

July28: Korean War Studying: So What?: The series concludes with three reasonsto better engage with one of our more under-remembered conflicts.

Nextseries starts Monday,

Ben

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