Showing posts with label American Studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Studies. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

American Studies 100: Cover Image Version 2.0

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Since today is the last day of my second run-through of my class American Studies 100: A History of American Culture in 21 Examples , I thou...
Friday, May 03, 2013

Quote of the Day

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Of course it should not be too surprising to find out that your life story has included an event, something important, that you have known ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Your First Jazz Album

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So I've been listening to a lot of jazz in the last few weeks.  It wasn't a totally new thing for me: I'd heard some before, and...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Sentences One Finds Oneself Saying During Class

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Federalist 10 is about dealing with threats from the left; Federalist 51 is about dealing with threats from the right. (PS: Yes, I know ...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Damnable Heresy

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I think I find Nina Simone's version of "Strange Fruit" to be more powerful than Billie Holiday's version . < ducks ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Quote of the Day

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Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, They are riding down the line, Fixing everybody’s troubles, Everybody’s except mine -- Somebody must of...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

Quote of the Day

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The Lone Ranger himself contains not a single internal contradiction. He can change reality, but it can't change him. He travels, smash...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Lines Which, I Fear, May Seem To My Students To Apply To the Text They Are Drawn From

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...which they are supposed to have read for today's class: ...in illustrating of any point touching the stirring personages and events...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Syllabus for American Studies 101: Myths and Paradoxes

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Last week, I posted my syllabus for my new course , an introductory course in American Studies; next up, the syllabus for my other new cour...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Some Worries Date Back Longer Than You Think, Education Edition

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...exemplifying the whole spirit of our big colleges -- their insatiable desire for more students and more funds, their readiness to resort ...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Syllabus for American Studies 100: The History of American Culture

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As I've alluded to, but haven't yet spelled out, this year I'm teaching two introductory-level American studies courses (both th...
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Saturday, September 08, 2012

Quote of the Day

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A marvelous little phrase from Jane Addams's Twenty Years at Hull House , said very much in passing, as a comparison with something else...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

One Small Grave For a Man, One Giant Diminishment for Mankind

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My semester begins tomorrow, and I'm teaching two brand-new classes (more on this soon), so I've been spending full time getting rea...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Poem of the Day: A Dramatic Monologue by Robert Frost

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I love Robert Frost dearly , but I must admit that most of my favorite ones are among the shorter ones -- no longer, say, than After Apple P...
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Monday, July 16, 2012

The Evolution of Section 1 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"

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I have long known that the first edition of Walt Whitman's seminal book of poetry Leaves of Grass , published in 1855, was much shorter ...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Whitman's "Reconciliaition"

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Angus Fletcher, in his article on "Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass " in The New Literary History of America (1999, Greil Marcus ...
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