[16 years ago this week, I launched this AmericanStudies daily blog. For this year’s anniversary series, I thought I’d revisit some significant months across those 16 years, leading up to my usual weekend thank-full post paying tribute to some of the countless folks who’ve helped along the way.]
So here we are, about to begin the 17th year of AmericanStudier. The biggest change over the last year has been the one I wrote about at length in my September blog series reflecting on one year of Black & White & Read All Over; as I detailed in this post in particular, I love a number of things the new site has helped me better highlight about the blog. The top of that list is my ability to keep Guest Posts at the top of the page, which makes me really, really excited to get and share more of them—so please reach out if you’d be interested in contributing a Guest Post!
We created that website as a space in which to both showcase our own public scholarship and support that of others, and on that note as well I remained deeply committed to this daily scholarly blog as a model of that work (mine and, through those Guest Posts, others’). There are lots of reasons why, but perhaps the most important is that this is a space in which I can explore as much of our history and culture and story and community and issues and identity as possible, in experimental and preliminary ways that (I hope and believe) demand continued thought and conversation. I’ve said before and will repeat: public scholarship and teaching have a great deal in common, and I’m excited to keep doing both, here and everywhere, for many many more years to come.
Thank-full post this weekend,
Ben
PS. Whether you’re a recent or long-time reader, say hi in comments, please! And again, lemme know about Guest Post ideas!
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