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Professor Jay Parini on Thirteen Books That Changed America
This week on The Learning Curve, Jay Parini, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College, discusses his book Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America, detailing how William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation, The Federalist Papers, and the works of Thoreau, Stowe, Twain, Du Bois, and others have shaped the American mind, character, and identity.
Op-ed: Education focus, testing on history, civics critical to well-informed citizenry
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By Tom Birmingham
Read this op-ed as published in WGBH News,…