Events

We The People: How do Americans Define "We?"

November 12, 2019 4 – 5:30 p.m.

"We the People": the Constitution begins with those three deceptively simple words, but how do Americans define "We"?

Speaker:  Benjamin Railton, Ph.D., English professor from Fitchburg State University, and author of We the People: The 500-Year Battle Over Who is American

Railton explores two interconnected yet competing concepts that define our national identity and community: exclusionary and inclusive visions of who gets to be an American.

  We The People: How do Americans Define "We?"