You deserve to feel free and strong. I believe we are inherently capable of facing the hardballs life throws at us. I collaborate with people whose coping abilities are being tested, and together we ...

Elizabeth Samet, an English professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, tells Scott Simon about some of the literature she offers to cadets — many of whom are about to go off to Iraq. One ...

Professor Elizabeth Samet calls the United States Military Academy at West Point a giant "found poem." When she joined its English Department in 1997, Samet discovered a world with its own vocabulary ...

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish new year. It is the start of the High Holy Days — a time of celebration and a time to revel in the honeyed sweetness of life and goodness of God. It is marked by the phrase ...

It was an uncanny moment. I had just begun reading Elizabeth Samet’s Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021). In it, Samet ...

At the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, an English teacher named Elizabeth Samet teaches this poem, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," to plebes, first-year students. It is about the death of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Elizabeth D. Samet is a Professor for English in the U.S. Military Academy with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2007 Speech. The year with ...

As an English teacher at West Point, Elizabeth Samet teaches America's future warriors about Shakespeare, Emerson and Homer. In her new book,... West Point and War Transform English Teacher Professor ...

Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point is a fascinating account of the Samet’s tenure as an English professor, teaching cadets poetry, novels, and essays. The deep ...