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\n<\/p>\n

\n

\u00a0[A Recap
\nof the month that was in AmericanStudying.]<\/p>\n

March
\n3: Hockey Histories: Origin Points<\/a>: On the 150th<\/sup> anniversary of
\nthe first organized hockey game, a series on the sport\u2019s histories kicks off
\nwith three telling layers to that first game. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n4: Hockey Histories: Fighting<\/a>: The series continues with the way not to
\nargue for the sport\u2019s violent tradition, and a possible way to do so. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n5: Hockey Histories: The Miracle on Ice<\/a>: The symbolic role of sports in
\nsociety, and the line between history and story, as the series skates on. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n6: Hockey Histories: Black Players<\/a>: Three groundbreaking players who
\ntogether reflect the sport\u2019s gradual evolution towards its more diverse 21st<\/sup>
\ncentury community. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n7: Hockey Histories: Team Trans<\/a>: The series concludes with two complicated
\nand equally important ways to contextualize a groundbreaking hockey team. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n8-9: Significant Sports Studiers<\/a>: Following up my own SportsStudying, a
\nspecial weekend post highlighting Bluesky Starter Packs of other SportsStudiers.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n10: Spring Breaking at the Movies: Spring Break<\/a>: A Spring Break series on
\ncinematic representations of the college tradition starts with more and less
\ndestructive pop culture stereotypes in a 1983 non-classic. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n11: Spring Breaking at the Movies: Spring Breakers<\/a>: The series continues with
\nthe fine line between challenging and exploiting the objectification of female
\ncelebrities. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n12: Spring Breaking at the Movies: From Justin to Kelly<\/a>: What wasn\u2019t new
\nabout a historic beach bomb, and what was, as the series parties on. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n13: Spring Breaking at the Movies: Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise<\/a>:
\nAmerican anti-intellectualism and the worse and better ways to challenge it. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n14: Spring Breaking at the Movies: Baywatch<\/a>: The series concludes with a
\nrepeat of one of my favorite posts, on why the beautiful beach bodies are also
\na body of evidence. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n15-16: Reflections of a College Dad<\/a>: As I near the end of my first year as
\na college dad (and the start of my first year with two young men in college\u2026le
\nsigh), three of the countless moments when I\u2019ve been pleasantly reminded of my
\nchanged circumstances. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n17: ScopesStudying: The Butler Act<\/a>: For the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of
\nthe anti-evolution Tennessee law, a series on it and its famous legal aftermath
\nkicks off with three historical ironies. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n18: ScopesStudying: John Scopes<\/a>: The series continues with three
\ninteresting facts about the science teacher who became the center of one of our
\nmost famous trials. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n19: ScopesStudying: Bryan and Darrow<\/a>: Two ways to contextualize the trial\u2019s
\nmost famous debate, as the series evolves on. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n20: ScopesStudying: Three Plays<\/a>: How three stage adaptations of the trial
\nreflect the fraught relationship between art and history. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n21: ScopesStudying: \u201cPart Man, Part Monkey\u201d<\/a>: The series concludes with
\nthree layers to one of Springsteen\u2019s funniest and most under-rated tracks (just
\nask my wife!). <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n22-23: 21st<\/sup> Century Attacks on Educators<\/a>: A special weekend post
\non what\u2019s new about our horrifying spate of anti-education attacks, and what\u2019s frustratingly
\nnot. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n24: Patriotic Speeches: Patrick Henry<\/a>: A series for the 250th<\/sup>
\nanniversary of the \u201cGive me liberty\u201d speech kicks off with excerpts from book
\non the contested history of American patriotism. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n25: Patriotic Speeches: Frederick Douglass<\/a>: The series continues with the
\nstunning critical patriotic speech that\u2019s just as important 170 years later. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n26: Patriotic Speeches: August Spies<\/a>: The inspiring patriotic speech that concluded
\na farcical show trial, as the series orates on. <\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n27: Patriotic Speeches: Margaret Chase Smith<\/a>: Why we shouldn\u2019t misrepresent
\na famous 1950 speech as apolitical, and why it\u2019s well worth celebrating nevertheless.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

March
\n28: Patriotic Speeches: Alexander Vindman<\/a>: The series concludes with
\nanother excerpt from my book, this one on a crucial 21st<\/sup> century
\nmoment of critical patriotism. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\nFools series starts Monday,<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben<\/span><\/p>\n

PS. Topics
\nyou\u2019d like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you\u2019d like to contribute? <\/span>Lemme know<\/span><\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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