Word: citizenship
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...debate about the most appropriate apportionment of a person's loyalties. The most influential contribution came from Herbert Croly, whose 1909 book The Promise of American Life became the intellectual foundation both of Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Croly argued that democratic citizenship was fundamental to American identity. Recognizing that the people are sovereign, but "only insofar as they succeed in reaching and expressing a collective purpose," Croly concluded that by the 20th century, we could only fulfill our democratic potential by becoming "frankly, unscrupulously, and loyally nationalist." Josiah Royce, one of Croly...
...slave books as Jubilee, Margaret Walker's 1966 novel about a black woman during the antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction years, and God's Trombones, the 1927 collection of folk sermons in verse by James Weldon Johnson. "For me," she says, "getting my library card was like getting American citizenship...
...American" institution with an "American" student body. Though the majority of both students and faculty are American citizens, there are sizable minorities from other countries, with neither the responsibility to study nor the interest in U.S. history. Second is the presumption that Harvard is responsible for the citizenship of its students. The appropriate place to require national history is in primary and secondary schools, and I find it hard to believe that anyone could graduate from the U.S. school system without taking substantial hours of American history...
...international college," Lewis wrote. "What does it mean to have citizenship as one of our responsibilities when we have students from China and Russia and Saudi Arabia at the dining table with us? Still, I think we are an American institution and embody largely American values in our approach to education, and we don't do much to encourage national service, for example. So I tend to think that we have a responsibility, and aren't fulfilling it very well, but it's tough...
...more international and cross-class groups than their predecessors were. Nostalgia for the period of post-war optimism is of limited value because the landscape of American education has changed so dramatically; in its place, students of this generation must come to terms with a new definition of citizenship and recognize the value of discovering it while they are in college...