Ed A. Shannon is a Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of NJ, where he teaches courses in American Literature and has served as the Convener of the Literature Major. He has published several articles on Woody Guthrie and was named a 2005 Woody Guthrie Fellow by the Woody Guthrie foundation. He is currently working on a book about Guthrie.
Ed Shannon appears in the following:
American Icons: This Land is Your Land
Thursday, November 10, 2016
How Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” went from a “God Bless America” spoof to an unofficial national anthem.
American Icons: This Land is Your Land
Friday, March 16, 2012
This is the national anthem we actually know the words to. Americans sing it at school; Bruce Springsteen sang it at President Obama's inauguration. Yet Woody Guthrie's song was onc...
