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\n<\/p>\n

\n

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

March
\n31: Foolish Texts: A Fool\u2019s Errand<\/a>: For this year\u2019s April Fool\u2019s series, I
\nAmericanStudied \u201cfool\u201d-ish cultural works, starting with Albion Tourg\u00e9e\u2019s
\nironic and powerful Reconstruction novel. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n1: Foolish Texts: \u201cWon\u2019t Get Fooled Again<\/a>\u201d: The series continues with
\nlessons and limits from an English classic rock anthem. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n2: Foolish Texts: Nobody\u2019s Fool<\/a>: Two AmericanStudies takeaways from one of
\nour quirkier and more affecting films, as the series fools on. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n3: Foolish Texts: This Fool<\/a>: Three Latino cultural works that can contextualize
\nthe recent sitcom about Los Angeles cholos. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n4: Foolish Texts: Fool<\/a>: The series concludes with a trio of pop culture
\nadaptations of Shakespeare, inspired by Christopher Moore\u2019s 2009 novel. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n7: A Great Gatsby Centennial: Gatsby\u2019s Pool<\/a>: For the centennial of Fitzgerald\u2019s
\nnovel, a tribute series kicks off with a tragic dip that\u2019s as difficult to pin
\ndown as the man taking it. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n8: A Great Gatsby Centennial: Three Phone Calls<\/a>: The series continues with
\nthree calls that illustrates the novel\u2019s portrayal of Modern technologies. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n9: A Great Gatsby Centennial: Foshay Tower<\/a>: The building and entrepreneur
\nthat bring an American icon to life, as the series reads on. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n10: A Great Gatsby Centennial: Gatsby\u2019s American Dreams<\/a>: Two contrasting
\nbut also interconnected ways to analyze the novel\u2019s ambiguous title character. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n11: A Great Gatsby Centennial: Novelist-Narrators<\/a>: The series concludes
\nwith a link to my 2011 American Literary Realism<\/i> article on this
\ninnovative narrative technique. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n12-13: A Great Gatsby Centennial: Fellow GatsbyStudiers<\/a>: And here\u2019s a
\nspecial weekend post highlighting a ton of great work from fellow studiers of
\nthe novel! <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n14: Kyle Contexts: Younger Siblings<\/a>: A series inspired by my awesome
\nyounger son\u2019s 18th<\/sup> birthday kicks off with prior posts on badass
\nyounger siblings in American history and culture. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n15: Kyle Contexts: The ACLU<\/a>: The series continues with three significant
\nstages in the evolution of the nation\u2019s preeminent civil rights organization. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n16: Kyle Contexts: Musical Crossovers<\/a>: A handful of examples of historic
\nmusical crossovers, as the series celebrates on. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n17: Kyle Contexts: Track & Field Fighters<\/a>: Five moments when track
\nstars (like my younger son) dealt with and overcame challenges (like my younger
\nson has). <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n18: Kyle Contexts: Chinchillas<\/a>: The series concludes with three ways to
\ncontextualize my son\u2019s favorite cute animal. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n19-20: Kyle Railton\u2019s Guest Post on the OJ Simpson Trial<\/a>: And I couldn\u2019t
\ndedicate a series to Kyle without re-sharing his excellent Guest Post! <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n21: EarthquakeStudying: San Francisco in 1906<\/a>: For Charles Richter\u2019s 125th<\/sup>
\nbirthday, an earthquake series kicks off with two distinct, equally inspiring responses
\nto one of our most destructive disasters. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n22: EarthquakeStudying: Three Other California Quakes<\/a>: The series continues
\nwith one striking detail about each of three major 20th<\/sup> century
\nquakes. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n23: EarthquakeStudying: The Indian Ocean in 2004<\/a>: Three cultural works that
\ncan help us remember one of the most devastating natural disasters in history,
\nas the series shakes on. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n24: EarthquakeStudying: Haiti in 2010<\/a>: Two interconnected ways to
\nAmericanStudy a Caribbean disaster. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n25: EarthquakeStudying: Movies<\/a>: The series concludes with takeaways from
\nthree blockbuster films about catastrophic quakes. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n26-27: EarthquakeStudying: Charles Richter<\/a>: For his 125th<\/sup> birthday,
\nthe very strange things I learned about Charles Richter, and what we do with such
\nprivate details about public figures. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n28: Ending the Vietnam War: The Mayaguez Incident<\/a>: For the 50th<\/sup>
\nanniversary of the symbolic end of the Vietnam War, a series on cultural
\nrepresentations of that conclusion kicks off with a maritime crisis turned
\nmilitary incident. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n29: Ending the Vietnam War: First Blood<\/a>: The series continues with what an
\niconic film speech gets wrong about the end of the war, and what it gets very
\nright. <\/span><\/p>\n

April
\n30: Ending the Vietnam War: Miss Saigon<\/a>: Two bravura sequences that reveal
\nwhat a musical can and can\u2019t do with history, as the series rolls on. <\/span><\/p>\n

May
\n1: Ending the Vietnam War: \u201cGalveston Bay<\/a>\u201d: Two ways an underrated Springsteen
\nsong importantly adds to his body of work about the war. <\/span><\/p>\n

May
\n2: Ending the Vietnam War: Da 5 Bloods<\/a>: The series concludes with one
\nfraught and one vital meaning of \u201cunfinished business\u201d in Spike Lee\u2019s recent
\nfilm. <\/span><\/p>\n

Next
\nseries 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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