Matt Delmont wrote an essay on the racial legacy of Dick Clark’s American Bandstand titled “Clark Aids Blacks on Bandstand? Not always. A historian on the complex racial legacy of the music show Dick Clark hosted.”
The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden offers two summer fellowships for undergraduate or graduate students interested in American Studies, U.S. History, Museum Studies, Education, or Historic Preservation.
The American Studies program will be holding an information session on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 4:15 pm in Humanities 119 on the campus of Scripps College.
A public lecture by artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds will take place Wednesday, February 9 at 3:00 pm at Pitzer College’s Broad Performance Space.
American Studies Program, Pomona College
Friday, Oct. 25, 4:15-5:15pm
Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building
The 5-C American Studies Program is hosting a panel discussion at the Pomona College Museum of Art on “Mexico in the U.S.: Art and Politics After the Mexican Revolution,” on November 18, 2010 at 4:15 pm,
American Studies student liaisons Kristen Trofa, along with American Studies junior and future liaison Clara Shelton, helped spread the word about the major at Pomona College’s Admissions Fair on Stover Walk on April 15.
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Cage/Gaines/Bridges: Connections: A Discussion of the current exhibitions at the Pomona College Museum of Art by Professors Frances Pohl (Ar History, PO) and Joti Rockwell (Music, PO)
Professor Matt Delmont, coordinator of the American Studies Program at Scripps College, was interviewed on the television show “Democracy Now” about his new book.