{"id":19603,"date":"2026-02-02T09:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19603"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:16:14","slug":"seth-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/profile\/seth-blumenthal\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Seth Blumenthal is a Senior Lecturer in Boston University\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program. His research focuses on the history of the Republican Party since WWII and conservative politics in the 20th century. Blumenthal\u2019s first book,\u00a0<\/span><em>Children of the Silent Majority: Youth Politics and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980<\/em><span>\u00a0was published 2018, and won the New England Historical Association\u2019s James P. Hanlan Book Award. He brings his own interests and research to his teaching, with classes like Imagining Vietnam: The Big Muddy in American Culture, Marijuana in American History, and High Stakes: Creating Social Equity in the Massachusetts Cannabis Industry, which he co-taught this year in the Cross College Challenge. In addition, his service learning course, titled \u201cthe Educated Electorate,\u201d requires his students to volunteer with political campaigns, nonprofits, and other groups, and then present a research paper on the issue at hand related to students\u2019 own experience in political activism. In 2020, Seth was recognized with Boston University\u2019s Metcalf Award for Teaching Excellence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25775,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19604,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19603\/revisions\/19604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}