In this episode, host Kate Carpenter interviews Dr. Ben Railton, historian, professor at Fitchburg State University, and longtime publisher of the AmericanStudies blog.
BEN'S PROJECTS
- Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism (2021)
- We the People: The 500-Year Battle over Who is an American (2019)
- History and Hope in American Literature: Models of Critical Patriotism (2016)
- The Chinese Exclusion Act: What It Can Teach Us About America (2013)
- Redefining American Identity: From Cabeza de Vaca to Barack Obama (2011)
- Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 (2007)
- AmericanStudies Blog
- Saturday Evening Post column
- Ben Railton on Twitter
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