{"id":15436,"date":"2026-03-23T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/?p=15436"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:37:19","slug":"american-studies-director-joseph-rezek-hosts-class-discussing-american-revolutionary-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/2026\/03\/23\/american-studies-director-joseph-rezek-hosts-class-discussing-american-revolutionary-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"American Studies Director Joseph Rezek&#8217;s &#8220;Revolutionary Icons&#8221; class highlighted in BU Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Studies Director Joseph Rezek is hosting a class this Spring relevant to the nation&#8217;s commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the American War for Independence. The class, &#8220;Revolutionary Icons,&#8221; delves into the <span>iconic texts of 1776 (including Tom Paine\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><i>Common Sense<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span>and the Declaration) and then focuses on four truly revolutionary writers\u00a0<\/span><span>from North America, Haiti, and the British Empire: Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Toussaint Louverture, and Mary Wollstonecraft. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To learn more about the wonderful things that students have been learning in the course, take a look at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2026\/revolutionary-icons-bu-class\/\">BU Today Article.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Studies Director Joseph Rezek is hosting a class this Spring relevant to the nation&#8217;s commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the American War for Independence. The class, &#8220;Revolutionary Icons,&#8221; delves into the iconic texts of 1776 (including Tom Paine\u2019s\u00a0Common Sense\u00a0and the Declaration) and then focuses on four truly revolutionary writers\u00a0from North America, Haiti, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15441,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15436\/revisions\/15441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}