Nathaniel C. Green currently teaches U.S. History at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, VA. A graduate of The University of Northern Iowa, The College of William & Mary, and Washington University in St. Louis, his courses emphasize the contested nature of concepts like freedom, citizenship, and equality throughout American history. Taking a broad view of “politics,” his courses explore how various individuals and groups at different moments in time defined these concepts, and how their divergent understandings inspired some to agitate for change, and others to support the status quo.
He is also at work on a book manuscript, titled The Man of the People: Political Dissent and the Making of the American Presidency, which examines the central role public criticism of the first presidential administrations (Washington to Jefferson) played in making the presidential office the cultural embodiment of what it meant to be American.
Nathaniel C. Green currently teaches U.S. History at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, VA. A graduate of The University of Northern Iowa, The College of William & Mary, and Washington University in St. Louis, his courses emphasize the contested nature of concepts like freedom, citizenship, and equality throughout American history. Taking a broad view of “politics,” his courses explore how various individuals and groups at different moments in time defined these concepts, and how their divergent understandings inspired some to agitate for change, and others to support the status quo.
He is also at work on a book manuscript, titled The Man of the People: Political Dissent and the Making of the American Presidency, which examines the central role public criticism of the first presidential administrations (Washington to Jefferson) played in making the presidential office the cultural embodiment of what it meant to be American.