AmericanStudier

Guest Posts

• Guest Post: Walter Greason & Tim Fielder’s New Comic Dearly Beloved
• Guest Post: Matt Dworkowitz on World War II’s Best Kept Secret: The Discovery of Chemotherapy in New Haven
• Guest Post: Mia Moriarty & Dr. Michael Millner on Jack Kerouac
• Guest Post: Regina Mills on Carmen Sandiego & Latinx Representation in Video Games

NeMLA Recaps

• April 6, 2026: NeMLA Recaps: My Panel on Asian and Asian Diasporic Fiction

Selling Out Santa Out in the World

• April 4-5, 2026: Selling Out Santa Out in the World: (Some of) My Takeaways
• April 3, 2026: Selling Out Santa Out in the World: Contingent Magazine
• April 2, 2026: Selling Out Santa Out in the World: Op Eds
• April 1, 2026: Selling Out Santa Out in the World: Podcasts
• March 31, 2026: Selling Out Santa Out in the World: FSU Grad Colloquium
• March 30, 2026: Selling Out Santa Out in the World: Edgartown Public Library

Historic Baseball Teams

• March 28-29, 2026: Historic Baseball Teams: My Podcast’s New Second Season on Baseball at Manzanar
• March 27, 2026: Historic Baseball Teams: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
• March 26, 2026: Historic Baseball Teams: The House of David
• March 25, 2026: Historic Baseball Teams: The Braves
• March 24, 2026: Historic Baseball Teams: The Celestials
• March 23, 2026: Historic Baseball Teams: The Massachusetts Game

Nautical Novels

• March 21-22, 2026: Lilah Francis Mabee on Maritime Meanings
• March 20, 2026: Nautical Novels: The Hunt for Red October
• March 19, 2026: Nautical Novels: The Caine Mutiny
• March 18, 2026: Nautical Novels: The Old Man and the Sea
• March 17, 2026: Nautical Novels: The Sea-Wolf
• March 16, 2026: Nautical Novels: Billy Budd

James Wong Howe in Context

• March 14-15, 2026: James Wong Howe in Context: The You’re Missing Out Podcast
• March 13, 2026: James Wong Howe in Context: Sanora Babb and Mid-Century America
• March 12, 2026: James Wong Howe in Context: Cinematography and Film History
• March 11, 2026: James Wong Howe in Context: Cecil B. DeMille and the American Dream
• March 10, 2026: James Wong Howe in Context: Boxing and Semi-Pro Sports in America
• March 9, 2026: James Wong Howe in Context: Chinese Americans at the Turn of the Century

Incorporating America

• March 7-8, 2026: Incorporating America: Our 21st Century Moment  
• March 6, 2026: Incorporating America: Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil
• March 5, 2026: Incorporating America: U.S. Steel  
• March 4, 2026: Incorporating America: Santa Clara County
• March 3, 2026: Incorporating America: The Bank of the United States  
• March 2, 2026: Incorporating America: Trachtenberg’s Book

Hawaiian Stories

• February 27, 2026: Hawaiian Stories: From Here to Eternity
• February 26, 2026: Hawaiian Stories: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
• February 25, 2026: Hawaiian Stories: Blue Crush
• February 24, 2026: Hawaiian Stories: Hawaii 5-0
• February 23, 2026: Hawaiian Stories: James Michener

Non-Favorite Scholarly Ideas

• February 20, 2026: Non-Favorite Scholarly Ideas: Silos
• February 19, 2026: Non-Favorite Scholarly Ideas: Walter Benn Michaels’s First Two Books
• February 18, 2026: Non-Favorite Scholarly Ideas: New Critical Fallacies
• February 17, 2026: Non-Favorite Scholarly Ideas: The Dunning School
• February 16, 2026: Non-Favorite Scholarly Ideas: The Turner Thesis

Scholarly Books I’ve Loved

• February 14-15, 2026: A Scholar and Scholarly Book I Love
• February 13, 2026: Scholarly Books I’ve Loved: Colleagues
• February 12, 2026: Scholarly Books I’ve Loved: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
• February 11, 2026: Scholarly Books I’ve Loved: A Different Mirror
• February 10, 2026: Scholarly Books I’ve Loved: The Unredeemed Captive
• February 9, 2026: Scholarly Books I’ve Loved: The Two-Ocean War

Fenimore Cooper Studying

• February 7-8, 2026: Fenimore Cooper Studying: Dad’s Book
• February 6, 2026: Fenimore Cooper Studying: Complementary Nonfiction
• February 5, 2026: Fenimore Cooper Studying: Homeward Bound & Home as Found  
• February 4, 2026: Fenimore Cooper Studying: The Last of the Mohicans & The Prairie
• February 3, 2026: Fenimore Cooper Studying: The Pioneers & The Pilot
• February 2, 2026: Fenimore Cooper Studying: Precaution & The Spy

The Challenger Disaster

• January 31-February 1, 2026: Crowd-sourced Challenger Studying
• January 30, 2026: The Challenger Disaster: Cultural Representations
• January 29, 2026: The Challenger Disaster: Aftermaths
• January 28, 2026: The Challenger Disaster: The Explosion
• January 27, 2026: The Challenger Disaster: Christa McAuliffe
• January 26, 2026: The Challenger Disaster: Predecessors

Occasional Poems

• January 24-25, 2026: Occasional Poems: Mine!
• January 23, 2026: Occasional Poems: 21st Century Inaugural Poems
• January 22, 2026: Occasional Poems: Angelou and Williams for Clinton
• January 21, 2026: Occasional Poems: Frost for Kennedy
• January 20, 2026: Occasional Poems: Whitman on Lincoln
• January 19, 2026: Occasional Poems: Wheatley to Washington

The Boob Tube in the 60s & 70s

• January 17-18, 2026: Crowd-sourced 60s & 70s TVStudying
• January 16, 2026: The Boob Tube in the 60s & 70s: The Brady Bunch
• January 15, 2026: The Boob Tube in the 60s & 70s: Bewitched
• January 14, 2026: The Boob Tube in the 60s & 70s: The Bionic Woman
• January 13, 2026: The Boob Tube in the 60s & 70s: Bonanza
• January 12, 2026: The Boob Tube in the 60s & 70s: Batman

2026 Anniversaries

• January 10-11, 2026: 2026 Anniversaries: Spring 2026 Plans
• January 9, 2026: 2026 Anniversaries: On Screen in 1976
• January 8, 2026: 2026 Anniversaries: Heard in 1926
• January 7, 2026: 2026 Anniversaries: Published in 1876
• January 6, 2026: 2026 Anniversaries: Revolutionary Memory in 1826
• January 5, 2026: 2026 Anniversaries: Reframing 1776

Year in Review

• January 2, 2026: Year in Review: Dad
• January 1, 2026: Year in Review: Rejuvenated Blockbusters
• December 31, 2025: Year in Review: AI
• December 30, 2025: Year in Review: Higher Ed
• December 29, 2025: Year in Review: Fascism

Revisiting My Books

• December 27-28, 2025: Wishes for my Wife’s Book
• December 26, 2025: Revisiting My Books: We the People & Of Thee I Sing
• December 25, 2025: Revisiting My Books: History & Hope in American Literature
• December 24, 2025: Revisiting My Books: The Chinese Exclusion Act
• December 23, 2025: Revisiting My Books: Redefining American Identity
• December 22, 2025: Revisiting My Books: Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation

Refugee Stories

• December 20-21, 2025: Refugee Stories in 2025
• December 19, 2025: Refugee Stories: Refugees in 2020 (and Today)
• December 18, 2025: Refugee Stories: Tina Powell’s Guest Post
• December 17, 2025: Refugee Stories: The Marielitos
• December 16, 2025: Refugee Stories: WWII Refugees
• December 15, 2025: Refugee Stories: Global Organizations

Semester Reflections

• December 13-14, 2025: Kyle at Michigan!
• December 12, 2025: Semester Reflections: Our Graduate Programs
• December 11, 2025: Semester Reflections: American Lit Online
• December 10, 2025: Semester Reflections: American Lit II
• December 9, 2025: Semester Reflections: Honors Lit Seminar
• December 8, 2025: Semester Reflections: First-Year Writing

Urban Legends

• December 5, 2025: Urban Legends: The Bermuda Triangle
• December 4, 2025: Urban Legends: Those Damn Clowns
• December 3, 2025: Urban Legends: Sewer Gators
• December 2, 2025: Urban Legends: Cryptids in Culture
• December 1, 2025: Urban Legends: The Bell Witch

Indigenous Voices

• November 28, 2025: Indigenous Voices: Ned Blackhawk
• November 27, 2025: Indigenous Voices: Wamsutta James
• November 26, 2025: Indigenous Voices: Sarah Winnemucca
• November 25, 2025: Indigenous Voices: William Apess
• November 24, 2025: Indigenous Voices: Joseph Lee’s Nothing More of This Land

AmericanStudying Rock (Hudson)

• November 22-23, 2025: AmericanStudying Closeted Gay Celebrities
• November 21, 2025: AmericanStudying Rock (Hudson): AIDS
• November 20, 2025: AmericanStudying Rock (Hudson): WWII Service
• November 19, 2025: AmericanStudying Rock (Hudson): Two TV Roles
• November 18, 2025: AmericanStudying Rock (Hudson): The Doris Day Films
• November 17, 2025: AmericanStudying Rock (Hudson): Come September

Veterans’ Stories

• November 15-16, 2025: Veterans’ Stories: Three 21C Stories
• November 14, 2025: Veterans’ Stories: The Best Years of Our Lives and WWII
• November 13, 2025: Veterans’ Stories: “Returning Soldiers” and WWI
• November 12, 2025: Veterans’ Stories: A Fool’s Errand and the Civil War
• November 11, 2025: Veterans’ Stories: William Apess and the War of 1812
• November 10, 2025: Veterans’ Stories: The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

15 Years (!) of AmericanStudying

• November 8-9, 2025: 15 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: My Dad
• November 7, 2025: 15 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: Vaughn Joy’s Partnership
• November 6, 2025: 15 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: Jen Bortel’s Journalistic Editing
• November 5, 2025: 15 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: Avi Green’s Aid
• November 4, 2025: 15 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: Heather Cox Richardson’s Help
• November 3, 2025: 15 Years (!) of AmericanStudying: Rob Velella’s Role Modeling

AmericanStudying a Springsteen “Lost” Album

• October 31, 2025: AmericanStudying a Springsteen “Lost” Album: Inyo & Western Stars
• October 30, 2025: AmericanStudying a Springsteen “Lost” Album: “The Lost Charro” & My Book
• October 29, 2025: AmericanStudying a Springsteen “Lost” Album: “The Aztec Dance” y Anzaldúa
• October 28, 2025: AmericanStudying a Springsteen “Lost” Album: “Adelita” & Mexican American Wars
• October 27, 2025: AmericanStudying a Springsteen “Lost” Album: “Inyo” & Los Angeles

Erie Canal Studying

• October 25-26, 2025: My Favorite Civil Engineer!
• October 24, 2025: Erie Canal Studying: That Song
• October 23, 2025: Erie Canal Studying: Ely Parker
• October 22, 2025: Erie Canal Studying: Canvass White
• October 21, 2025: Erie Canal Studying: DeWitt Clinton
• October 20, 2025: Erie Canal Studying: Starting the Project

Not Just (Video) Games

• October 18-19, 2025: Not Just (Video) Games: Nintendo Classics
• October 17, 2025: Not Just (Video) Games: Video Game Studiers
• October 16, 2025: Not Just (Video) Games: GTA
• October 15, 2025: Not Just (Video) Games: Oregon Trail
• October 14, 2025: Not Just (Video) Games: Pac-Man
• October 13, 2025: Not Just (Video) Games: Pong

American Crime Fiction

• October 11-12, 2025: American Crime Fiction: Elmore Leonard
• October 10, 2025: American Crime Fiction: Presumed Innocent
• October 9, 2025: American Crime Fiction: Tana French
• October 8, 2025: American Crime Fiction: Attica Locke
• October 7, 2025: American Crime Fiction: Tony Hillerman
• October 6, 2025: American Crime Fiction: Ross MacDonald

The Thrilla in Manila

• October 4-5, 2025: Lou Moore’s Sensational Sports Studying
• October 3, 2025: The Thrilla in Manila: Part 3s
• October 2, 2025: The Thrilla in Manila: Joe Frazier and Boxing Villains
• October 1, 2025: The Thrilla in Manila: Marcos and the U.S.
• September 30, 2025: The Thrilla in Manila: Ali’s Evolution
• September 29, 2025: The Thrilla in Manila: Boxing and America

Recent Scholarly Reads

• September 26, 2025: Forthcoming Scholarly Reads: Selling Out Santa
• September 25, 2025: Recent Scholarly Reads: Frederick Douglass
• September 24, 2025: Recent Scholarly Reads: The Rediscovery of America
• September 23, 2025: Recent Scholarly Reads: We Now Belong to Ourselves
• September 22, 2025: Recent Scholarly Reads: Action Without Hope