1776 Unites, a group that says it wants to "shape the American future by drawing on the best of its past," released its first curriculum program this week in part to counter the New York Times' 1619 ...
America’s original revolutionaries, along with Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King Jr., all placed the universalist ideals of the Declaration of Independence at the center of ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a 1776 Commission on the eve of the election that will create a curriculum that teaches “patriotic education” in schools. Trump has been ...
The New York Times would like people to believe that one of the 1619 Project's more widely criticized claims—that we might consider 1619, the year African slaves first arrived in the British colonies, ...
Many political and social progressives are eager to redefine America as starting not in 1776, which is truly and literally when the very title “United States of America” began, but in the year 1619, ...
“Teaching critical race theory doesn’t mean that you are teaching students to hate. It means you are teaching students to understand.” — James Grossman, American Historical Association “We need to ...
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MSU's Institute for the Humanities is hosting a virtual event "From 1619 to 1776: How do we frame American history?” on its Facebook page! March 16, 3:30 p.m. Topic: How American history is taught, ...
The New York Times’ 1619 Project, published in 2019, was an attempt to reinterpret American history through the prism of race and racial struggle. It condemned the American Revolution as a struggle by ...
Smith is a historian and the author of American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era. Follow him on Twitter: @craigbrucesmith. All views are those of the author. “We ...
One of the clearest signs that we are in a debate over the central meaning of our country, and therefore of our rights and of us, is the controversy about the status of the American founding. That ...
Finding evidence of slavery’s impact on modern America isn’t difficult. What’s challenging, said journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, is centering that evidence within the national memory. “Most of us aren ...