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What Makes a Good American Citizen?
(Note: This essay was originally published in the Newport Daily News on September 30, 2017. I re-publish it today because of its continued relevance.) As a human body is only as healthy as its individual cells, so a civilization or … Continue reading
Part X: Judging the Unconventional Patriotic Citizen
(A version of this essay was originally published as “How Should We Judge Unconventional Patriotic Citizens Like Snowden and Kaepernick?” by the History News Network-online on October 15, 2017.) This is the tenth essay in a series devoted to examining … Continue reading
Part IX: Citizenship in the Age of Donald Trump
(A version of this essay was originally published as “What Makes a Good Citizen?” in the Newport Daily News on September 30, 2017, and as “What Citizenship Means Keeps Changing,” on October 8, 2017, by the History News Network-online) This … Continue reading
Part VIII: Citizenship in the Age of Edward Snowden and Colin Kaepernick
This is the eighth essay in a series devoted to examining citizenship and the American citizen, the rights, duties, and norms of which have become ever more contentious since the divisive Sixties. They have become especially relevant in recent years … Continue reading
Part VII: Citizenship Through the Ages
This is the seventh essay in a series devoted to examining citizenship and the American citizen, the rights, duties, and norms of which have become ever more contentious since the divisive Sixties. They have become especially relevant in recent years … Continue reading
Part VI: Citizenship and the New American Citizen in the Divisive Sixties
This is the sixth essay in a series devoted to examining citizenship and the American citizen, the rights, duties, and norms of which have become ever more contentious since the divisive Sixties. They have become especially relevant in recent years … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, 1960s, American citizen, American citizenship, American civilization, American Pie, anti-Vietnam War movement, citizen, citizenship, civil rights movement, Colin Kaepernick, counterculture, Don McLean, Donald Trump, good old days in America, hippieism, history of citizenship, Movements of the Sixties, nuclear arms race, protest in America, SDS, Summer of Love, The Fifites, The Left, The Sixties, The Sixties in America, Thomas Jefferson, Todd Gitlin, Woodstock
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Part V: Citizenship in Postwar America
This is the fifth essay in a series devoted to examining citizenship and the American citizen, the rights, duties, and norms of which have become ever more contentious since the divisive Sixties. They have become especially relevant in recent years … Continue reading
Part IV: Citizenship in a Totalitarian State: Nazi Germany
This is the fourth essay in a series devoted to examining citizenship and the American citizen, the rights, duties, and norms of which have become ever more contentious beginning in the divisive Sixties. They have become especially relevant in recent … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, American citizen, citizen, citizen in a totalitarian state, citizenship, citizenship in Nazi Germany, Daniel Goldhagen, fascism, fascism in Nazi Germany, Franz Neumann, Germany, history of citizenship, Nazi Germany, totalitarian state, totalitarianism, totalitarianism in Nazi Germany
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Part III: Citizenship in a Revolutionary State, 18th Century Revolutionary France
This is the third essay in a series devoted to examining citizenship and the American citizen, the rights, duties, and norms of which have become ever more contentious beginning in the divisive Sixties. They have become especially relevant in recent … Continue reading
Part II: Citizenship in Ancient Rome
This is the second essay in a series devoted to examining citizenship and the American citizen, the rights, duties, and norms of which have become ever more contentious beginning in the divisive Sixties. They have become especially relevant in recent … Continue reading
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Tagged American citizen, American citizenship, American civilization, Ancient Rome, Cincinnatus, citizen, citizenship, civis Romanus sum, dual citizenship, history of citizenship, Mary Beard, Roman citizen, Roman citizenship, Roman Empire, Roman expansion, Roman imperialism, Rubicon, SPQR, Tom Holland
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