Lincoln scholar Ronald White examined the private thoughts of America's 16th President through his personal notes. This was a virtual program hosted by the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago. The ...

Progressive left and postliberal right intellectuals converge in teaching scorn for America’s founding principles. Attacking from different angles, both camps employ grossly flawed arguments to ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” targets the Smithsonian Institution — which has, he contends, “come under the influence of a divisive, ...

President Trump this week issued an order barring federal funding of “the indoctrination of children.” And in its first sentence, he declared that schools should “instill a patriotic admiration for ...

As Virginians prepare for the beginning of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, Republicans, according to the party’s 2024 platform, plan to reinstate the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission, ...

A stack of history books used in Virginia schools. (Mechelle Hankerson/ Virginia Mercury) As Virginians prepare for the beginning of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, Republicans, according ...

The 1776 Commission’s background Trump has not mentioned plans for the commission since his re-election over Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5, despite his party’s affirmation of their ...

Peninsula native and renowned historian Calvin Pearson, who friends describe as a huge force in educating Hampton Roads on the history of enslaved Africans, died last week at 73. Pearson is the ...

The editors and journalists at The New York Times are fixing to celebrate the Fourth of July in a few days. One has to wonder why. In fact, The 1619 Project says little about the Declaration of ...

In a recent essay, Julie Reuben argued that “No professor could responsibly use the 1776 Report in the classroom” (“What Is ‘Indoctrination,’ Anway?” The Chronicle Review, February 20). I do so in ...

Presentism is one of the pervasive evils in our brave new world. It is the new orthodoxy to examine history under a filtering lens that subjects all events and people to our modern conceits. And it is ...

The 1776 Project is back. You might remember the right-wing “anti-woke” group, a New York-based national outfit that two years ago backed a slate of board candidates for the Olathe and Blue Valley ...