America and Other Fictions

Ben Railton is professor of English Studies and coordinator of American Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. He is the author, most recently, of We the People: The 500-Year Battle over Who is American (2019, Rowman and Littlefield). He also writes the daily AmericanStudies blog, contributes a bimonthly column to the Saturday Evening Post, and is the Boston Chapter Leader for the Scholars Strategy Network.

Ben Railton

We Know Public Scholarship When We See It: On  “America and Other Fictions”

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Ben Railton is professor of English Studies and coordinator of American Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. He is the author, most recently, of We the People: The 500-Year Battle over Who is American (2019, Rowman and Littlefield). He also writes the daily AmericanStudies blog, contributes a bimonthly column to the Saturday Evening Post, and is the Boston Chapter Leader for the Scholars Strategy Network.

Ben Railton

Articles

We Know Public Scholarship When We See It: On “America and Other Fictions”