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Best Of: Ben Railton: American Studies Prof, Competing Ideas of Patriotism and Who is American
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Best Of: Ben Railton: American Studies Prof, Competing Ideas of Patriotism and Who is American

In our special Best Of series, we're featuring this episode on patriotism for the 4th of July holiday. Ben Railton teaches American Studies of Fitchburg State University in MA. He is author of six books on American identity, national narratives, and collective memory, most recently Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism (2021). He writes the daily American Studier blog, contributes the bimonthly Considering History column for the Saturday Evening Post, and is a frequent public scholarly tweeter @AmericanStudier. His work explores the connections between America’s past and present.

Most recent book: Of Thee I Sing

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