{"id":7072717,"date":"2026-10-02T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7072717"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:45:19","slug":"americanstudies-january-10-11-2026-2026-anniversaries-spring-2026-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7072717","title":{"rendered":"AmericanStudies: January 10-11, 2026: 2026 Anniversaries: Spring 2026 Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-546670308644578620\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<p>[The start<br \/>\nof a new year meant my annual series on historic anniversaries. Leading up to<br \/>\nthis weekend post on some of what I\u2019m planning for my Spring semester<br \/>\nsabbatical!]<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Two works<br \/>\nin progress for which I\u2019d love your input and ideas, and one even more direct<br \/>\nrequest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 142.5pt; text-indent: -.25in;\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">1)<span style=\"font: 7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Podcast season two: <a href=\"https:\/\/americanstudier.blogspot.com\/2025\/09\/september-6-7-2025-preview-of-my.html\">Back<br \/>\nin September<\/a> I noted that one main plan for my sabbatical this semester was<br \/>\nto work on a second season for my narrative history podcast <i><a href=\"https:\/\/americanstudier.podbean.com\/\">The Celestials\u2019 Last Game:<br \/>\nBaseball, Bigotry, &amp; the Battle for America<\/a><\/i>. I\u2019m still hoping to<br \/>\nget that going soon, with a goal of having it drop around Opening Day in late<br \/>\nMarch; and I\u2019m still interested in the baseball diamond that was built and used<br \/>\nat the Manzanar Japanese incarceration camp during World War II as a possible<br \/>\nfocus. So I\u2019d love any ideas or info you might have about those or related<br \/>\nhistories; but I\u2019m also not wedded to that topic, so if you have other ideas<br \/>\nfor a baseball or sports history season two subject, share them in comments or <a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudier.blogspot.com\/2026\/01\/mailto:brailton@fitchburgstate.edu\">feel free to email me<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 142.5pt; text-indent: -.25in;\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">2)<span style=\"font: 7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Resources for our website: Our awesome new <a href=\"https:\/\/blackwhiteandread.com\/\">Black &amp; White &amp; Read All Over<\/a><br \/>\npublic scholarly website has been live for just over four months now, and my wife<br \/>\nVaughn continues to put in the work to expand and strengthen it. That\u2019s<br \/>\nespecially the case with the Resources tab; so far that means <a href=\"https:\/\/blackwhiteandread.com\/pitchables\/\">the Pitchables page<\/a> under<br \/>\nthat tab, but Vaughn and I are also interested in expanding that Resources<br \/>\nsection with additional helpful links and support for public scholars, AmericanStudiers,<br \/>\ncultural studies folks, teachers, and more. If you have ideas for either things<br \/>\nwe should include or things you\u2019d find helpful, once again share them in<br \/>\ncomments or <a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudier.blogspot.com\/2026\/01\/mailto:brailton@fitchburgstate.edu\">feel free to email me<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 142.5pt; text-indent: -.25in;\"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">3)<span style=\"font: 7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><!--[endif]--><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Guest Posts: The <a href=\"https:\/\/americanstudier.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Guest%20Posts\">100-plus<br \/>\nGuest Posts<\/a> I was able to share on the old blog remain my favorite part of<br \/>\nthat site, and I\u2019m so glad that I\u2019ve been able to share the first three <a href=\"https:\/\/blackwhiteandread.com\/americanstudier\/\">Guest Posts on the new<br \/>\nsite<\/a> (they\u2019re at the top of that blog page as all Guest Posts will always<br \/>\nbe) over the last couple months. But when it comes to Guest Posts, I can never<br \/>\nget enough, and I\u2019d really love to share at least one every month. So if you<br \/>\nhave either specific ideas, general interest, or questions of any kind about<br \/>\nGuest Posting on this blog, once more with feeling, share them in comments or <a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudier.blogspot.com\/2026\/01\/mailto:brailton@fitchburgstate.edu\">feel free to email me<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Next<br \/>\nseries starts Monday,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Ben<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 12.0pt; tab-stops: 142.5pt;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">PS. 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