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Jeffers Lennox
Associate Professor of History Jeffers Lennox was featured on a May 4 episode of the podcast
The podcast, which is hosted and created by Van Ness, an Emmy-nominated television star and
New York Times bestselling author, focuses on different topics each week. Van Ness interviews experts in various fields and delves into the subjects in which they specialize.
The episode began with Van Ness asking an overarching question: “What’s the deal with Canada’s origin story?”
Lennox spoke about how parts of Canada were originally colonies at the time of the American Revolution, though they did not choose to join the fight. However, these were not the first people to live on the land.
Railton explores the connections between America’s past and present.
Speaking to the right-wing student group the Young America Foundation (YAF) at their Standing Up for Faith and Freedom conference on April 23, former Congressman and current CNN contributor Rick Santorum advanced a particular vision of American history and identity to make the case for the conference’s twin themes. He argued, “We came here and created a blank slate. We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”