January 18-19, 2025: Spring Semester Previews: My Scholarly Work and You

[AnotherSpring semester is upon us, and with it my annual Spring semester previews.This time I’ve focused on one skill I’m excited to be teaching as part of eachof these courses. Leading up this post with a request for help with my nextscholarly project!]

I’ve gotsome steady public scholarly work that I very much plan to continue in 2025,from this blog to my biweekly SaturdayEvening Post Considering Historycolumn to my #ScholarSundayThreads newsletter. But my first experience creating a public scholarly narrative historypodcast was extremely enjoyable, and so I’m definitely looking to createanother!

We can callthat a second season of The Celestials’ Last Game if we’d like, and Imight because of branding and whatnot (he said very knowledgeably), but Ifirmly believe I’ve done what I can with that particular history so this secondseason would have to focus on a new subject in any case. I’ve got one idea, whichis the really fascinatingstory of the early 20th century barnstorming baseball team theHouse of David (to keep the baseball thread going, natch). But I don’t yetknow enough about that story to know if there’s a 9-Inning podcast there, so…

…thisspace for rent! Or rather, as in this blog’s long and proud history of crowd-sourcedposts, this space for y’all’s suggestions. Any ideas for other histories or stories—whetherrelated to baseball, sports stories, or some other under-remembered part ofAmerican history—will be very welcome! Share ‘em below, or shoot me an email (brailton@fitchburgstate.edu), andthanks in advance!

Nextseries starts Monday,

Ben

PS. Youknow what to do!