October 28-29, 2023: October 2023 Recap

[A Recapof the month that was in AmericanStudying.]

October2: LGBT Histories: The Society for Human Rights: An LGBT History Monthseries kicks off with three contexts for America’s first gay rightsorganization.

October3: LGBT Histories: Harvey Milk: The series continues with the complexitiesof any historical event, and the vital broader issues nonetheless.

October4: LGBT Histories: 1950s Discriminations: Two horrific 50s decisions andwhether we can find light in such dark moments, as the series remembers on.

October5: LGBT Histories: Stonewall: The undeniable significance of violence forcivil rights movements, and the need to remember beyond it.

October6: LGBT Histories: 1970s Advances: The series concludes with three 1973moments that helped advance the movement.

October7-8: LGBT Rights in 2023: A special weekend follow-up on progress,regression, and a crucial fight here in 2023.

October9: Vice President Studying: Aaron Burr’s Trial: For the 50thanniversary of Spiro Agnew’s resignation, a VP series kicks off with takeawaysfrom the most controversial VP.

October10: Vice President Studying: Andrew Johnson’s Nomination: The seriescontinues with one good and one horrific thing about a crucial wartime VPchoice.

October11: Vice President Studying: Henry Wilson’s Book: How a Vice Presidentialpublication helps us rethink an entire administration, as the series rolls on.

October12: Vice President Studying: John C. Calhoun and Spiro Agnew: A significantdifference between the two VPs who resigned, and a linking thread.

October13: Vice President Studying: Dick Cheney’s Power: The series concludes witha key explanation for a Vice President’s unprecedented power grabs.

October14-15: Vice President Studying: Kamala Harris: Another special weekendfollow-up, this one on a couple ways the current VP represents real andmeaningful progress.

October16: Basketball Stories: James Naismith: With the WNBA season concluding anda new NBA season upon us a basketball series tips off with contexts for thesport’s iconic inventor.

October17: Basketball Stories: Chamberlain and Russell: The series continues witha clear distinction between two iconic greats, and why it’s not quite so clear.

October18: Basketball Stories: Magic: Genuine low and high points for the legendaryLaker, as the series dribbles on.

October19: Basketball Stories: The Harlem Globetrotters: Couldn’t feature abasketball studying series without sharing my recent Saturday Evening Post column on the Globetrotters!

October20: Basketball Stories: WNBA Stars: The WNBA too often plays second fiddleto the NBA, but as the five greats in this series concluding post illustrate,it’s always had plenty of star power as well.

October23: New Scholarly Books: A Seat at the Table: A series on great recentpublications kicks off with a vital new anthology co-edited by frequent GuestPoster Hettie Williams.

October24: New Scholarly Books: Resistance from the Right: The series continueswith an important recent book that helps us understand the longstanding andmost dangerous threat to higher ed.

October25: New Scholarly Books: A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Awonderful new bio that reminds us of the best of our Congressional leaders, asthe series reads on.

October26: New Scholarly Books: The Vice President’s Black Wife: Coming up withtitles for public scholarly books ain’t easy, so when one gets it right, it’sreally worth celebrating.

October27: New Scholarly Books: Democracy Awakening: And the series and monthconcludes with the most successful scholarly book of the year from our mostprominent public scholar.

Nextseries starts Monday,

Ben

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