patriotism

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Recovering Acts of Progressive Patriotism: Teaching Through Protest Music

  by Matthew Lindaman

  A history professor reflects on a course teaching critical perspectives on patriotism through protest and music that articulates an inclusive and progressive nationalism.

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• 11/8/2020
  

  Blaming the Messenger: Trump, the KKK, and the War on Historians

  by David Welky

  Conservative demands for "patriotic" history education echo the culture war fought by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. 

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• SOURCE: Keeping Democracy Alive
  10/2/2020
  

  Ben Railton Joins "Keeping Democracy Alive" to Talk "Patriotic Education"

  American Studies scholar Ben Railton discusses his upcoming book "Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism" and the political hijacking of the patriotic ideal. 

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• 9/20/2020
  

  Trump's "Patriotic Education" Commission Yet Another Battle Over the Meaning of Those Words

  by Ben Railton

  In practice, as we see today with Trump and company, American celebratory patriotism has often been wedded to a second and far more divisive form: exclusionary mythologizing patriotism. There are alternatives that also deserve recognition as patriotism.

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Belligerent Patriotism, or Why Donald Trump Cannot Mourn the Dead

  by John Bodnar

  The behavior of belligerent patriots in our times has made it clear that the type of allegiance they value most--and their image of America--leaves little room for an ethic of mutualism or compassion.

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• 7/3/2020
  

  This Independence Day, We Need a Patriotism Index

  by Gregory D. Foster

  We must now develop a long-overdue Patriotism Index to quantitatively distinguish real Americans from the many poseurs and potential enemies who lurk among us.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/21/2020
  

  Today's Biggest Act of Patriotic Love

  by David M. Perry

  Under quarantine, a majority of Americans are more united than ever, argues historian David M. Perry.

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• 2/16/20
  

  “Patriotic” Veterans Only, Please

  by Gregory A. Daddis

  While perhaps an indication of our current toxic political environment, the attacks on “unpatriotic” veterans like U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman actually have a long and checkered history in post-World War II America.

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• 8/6/19
  

  Reflecting on Patriotism in the Trump Era

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  As we celebrated our nation’s birthday, a lot of us wanted to feel patriotic. Our White House occupant clearly got in the way!

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9-14-18
  

  Battles over patriotism, Pledge of Allegiance in schools span a century

  by Randall Curren and Charles Dorn

  Seventy-five years ago, at the height of America’s involvement in World War II, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that guaranteed public school students’ right to refuse to stand in patriotic salute.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  8-20-18
  

  Republicans Don’t Own Patriotism Anymore

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  The Democrats are reclaiming language they ceded to the GOP decades ago—and putting a liberal spin on it.

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• 5-29-18
  

  Donald Trump’s Shameful Use of the “Star-Spangled Banner” Is, Alas, an American Tradition 

  by Michael J. Pfeifer

  It’s one we should have put to an end long ago.

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• 5/27/18
  

  Is It Ok to Attack the Patriotism of Those with Whom We Disagree?

  by Gregory A. Daddis

  It’s become an unfortunate habit for many.

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• 5/27/18
  

  The Anniversary We Forgot to Celebrate this Year – And Need to Remember More than Ever

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  It’s the “American’s Creed,” a patriotic paean that reminds us of who we are and should aspire to be.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3-25-18
  

  A Modest Plea for Patriotic History

  by Eliot A. Cohen

  If Americans were more familiar with the complex heroes of their past, they would be better equipped to recognize people of good character today.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-3-17
  

  The ugly history of the Pledge of Allegiance — and why it matters

  by Christopher Petrella

  Requiring displays of patriotism have often been tied to nativism and bigotry.

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• SOURCE: Axios
  9-26-17
  

  The history of singing the national anthem before NFL games

  The history of playing the national anthem before sports games has strong ties with honoring the armed forces.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-24-17
  

  Before Trump vs. the NFL, there was Jackie Robinson vs. JFK

  Jackie Robinson, the hero who integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, spoke out loudly for civil rights and challenged President John F. Kennedy to stop dithering on black equality. Unlike Trump, JFK sought to understand Robinson’s complaints.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9-24-17
  

  Recalling Muhammad Ali’s Vietnam War Resistance in the Age of Trump

  by David Remnick

  What makes modern athletes’ national-anthem protests different from Muhammad Ali’s resistance to the Vietnam War draft, and his insistence on the rights of African-Americans, a half century ago?

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9-24-17
  

  Jelani Cobb unloads on Trump’s double standard of patriotism in the New Yorker

  by Jelani Cobb

  Trump’s selective patriotism "drives him to curse at black football players but leaves him struggling to create false equivalence between Nazis and anti-Fascists in Charlottesville."