September 2-3, 2023: August 2023 Recap

[A Recapof the month that was in AmericanStudying.]

July31: Sibling Studying: The Marx Brothers and the Stooges: A celebratoryseries on American siblings kicks off with two groups at the heart of mid-20thcentury comedy and culture.

August1: Sibling Studying: The Grimké Sisters: The series continues with a pairof sisters who exemplified the power, courage, and complexity of Americanabolitionism.

August2: Sibling Studying: The Wright Brothers: Three lesser-known stories of thebrothers who changed transportation and the world, as the series rolls on.

August3: Sibling Studying: William and Henry James: The influential and inspiringrelationship between two brothers who echo my own favorite pair of siblings.

August4: Sibling Studying: The Eaton Sisters: The series concludes with twocolumns where I’ve highlighted the amazing Eaton sisters, and one thing I’dadd.

August5-6: Sibling Studying: The Railton Boys: Couldn’t share a SiblingStudyingseries without paying tribute to my favorite pair of brothers!

August7: Birthday Bests: 2010-2011: My annual birthday series of favorite postsfrom across the blog’s nearly 13 years started here…

August8: Birthday Bests: 2011-2012:

August9: Birthday Bests: 2012-2013:

August10: Birthday Bests: 2013-2014:

August11: Birthday Bests: 2014-2015:

August12: Birthday Bests: 2015-2016:

August13: Birthday Bests: 2016-2017:

August14: Birthday Bests: 2017-2018:

August15: Birthday Bests: 2018-2019:

August16: Birthday Bests: 2019-2020:

August17: Birthday Bests: 2020-2021:

August18: Birthday Bests: 2021-2022:

August19-20: Birthday Bests: 2022-2023: … and concluded here with 46 favoriteposts from the last year on the blog!

August21: Cville Places: Barracks Road: For this year’s Cville series, I focusedon symbolic spaces, starting with one that captures the elided but evocativehistories all around us.

August22: Cville Places: Fry’s Spring: The series continues with four stages toone of Cville’s most exemplary sites.

August23: Cville Places: Vinegar Hill: Sharing a Saturday Evening Post column on one of the city’s most tragicspaces, as the series rolls on.

August24: Cville Places: The Jefferson School: What a historic educational placecan tell us about three distinct 20th century eras.

August25: Cville Places: The Paramount Theater: The series concludes with threetelling details about the city’s most historic theater.

August26-27: Cville Places: The Public Schools: A special weekend tribute to someof the many amazing folks I worked with in my own most influential Cvillespace.

August28: Contextualizing the March on Washington: 1941 Origins: For the March’s60th anniversary, a series on key contexts kicks off with 1941origin points.

August29: Contextualizing the March on Washington: 1957 Prelude: The series continueswith how a 1957 march foreshadowed 1963, and how it differed.

August30: Contextualizing the March on Washington: The Big Six: A coupleinspiring elements of the 1963 March’s leadership, and one frustrating one.

August31: Contextualizing the March on Washington: Marian, Mahalia, and Odetta:The 1963 musical performers who dominated the headlines, and three whom weshould better remember.

September1: Contextualizing the March on Washington: Speeches: The series concludeswith three of the March’s many important orations (beyond its most famousone).

FallSemester previews start Monday,

Ben

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