As a Soldier in the US Army, I hold it to be my most sacred duty to become obsolete. That… Read more Is Peace an American Value? – Daniel Kimmel
Category: Tammany Hall
America is either a cynic on the outside with the heart of an idealist on the inside, or the other way around. With the soaring rhetoric of the Declaration and the Constitution, politics literally is America. Yet who loves city hall? Tammany Hall is where we’ll look at politics with eye both idealistic and angry.
American Muhammad: An Interview with Artist Sandow Birk – Wade Linebaugh
Sandow Birk’s new exhibition and book publication of his nearly decade-long project, American Qur’an, drew media attention last month including… Read more American Muhammad: An Interview with Artist Sandow Birk – Wade Linebaugh
Time to Change the National Anthem – Trevor Seigler
In the aftermath of President Obama’s election in 2008, I spent a good amount of time on YouTube checking out… Read more Time to Change the National Anthem – Trevor Seigler
On the NFL: National Football Liability – Trevor Seigler
It occurs to me that the NFL is a mirror reflection of what America is, what it stands for, and… Read more On the NFL: National Football Liability – Trevor Seigler
The Non-Apotheosis of Tom Paine – Ed Simon
Tom Paine however didn’t believe in gods, and so he was just a man, sometimes a flawed one, and because of that he deserves our love.
Gettysburg is my Jersey Shore – Ashley Pfeiffer
Some people went down the shore in the summer, Ashley Pfeiffer went to Gettysburg.
No Stillness After Appomattox – Reid Mitchell
I remember reading as a southern boy—a white southern boy—how Grant actually never took Richmond. Technically, this is true, if irrelevant.
“Get a Brain! Morans”: The Meta-Discourse of Misspelled Tea Party Signs – Arlynda Boyer
Remember Descent the Highest form of Patriotic….
To take this dark shape and make it into words – Wade Linebaugh
Fourteen years later, this is the first Fall in three years I’m not teaching about 9/11 to my students in First-year composition. Its absence is an odd sort of ache I never expected.
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