U.S. History

“Pop culture has given us a distorted picture of the religious separatists who founded Plymouth Colony. Historian John Turner sets the record straight.” - CToday

“How can we wash our hands of the rotten fruit still being harvested while we enjoy the gain and spoils accumulated via the efforts of a program of dehumanization that is generational in its span? Time has ontological weight and events in our nation’s time hang guiltily around our collective neck.” - John Ellis

“The New York Times has quietly backed off of its claim that August, 1619, when the first slaves were brought to Virginia–not July 4, 1776–is America’s “true founding’….Historians savaged the project, showing that these claims are simply untrue. Liberal historians joined conservative historians in debunking the project. It turns out, the New York Times ignored the report of its own fact-checker!” - Veith

In the 1850’s “Californians learned the hard way that vigilante justice and the demands of the mob are no substitute for police and courts of law. Let us hope we do not need that lesson again.” - National Review

“A very different response is found in Rev. Francis J. Grimke…. Grimke acknowledged that there was some ‘considerable grumbling’ regarding the closing of churches. But he also offers a defense: ‘The fact that the churches were places of religious gathering, and the others not, would not affect in the least the health question involved.

“Schlafly’s elegant hairstyle and clothing were perfectly mirrored in Blanchett, according to Schlafly’s niece. ‘It was very surreal to listen to Cate Blanchett…. She just did an amazing job on that front.’ Unfortunately, that’s where the similarities end.

“The reader who wishes to wade in deeper to these waters will get an assist from Philip Magness’s bibliography on ‘The 1619 Project Debate,’ at least as it stood on January 3. Still more assistance can be found on John Fea’s website, ‘The Way of Improvement Leads Home,’ which has been tracking ‘The 1619 Project: Debate Continues.’” - ITakeout

“The [1619] project, a collaboration between the New York Times Magazine and the Pulitzer organization, has mushroomed into a movement to re-educate Americans with novel claims about how deeply racism is embedded at America’s core. As of February 2020, five public school systems had adopted the 1619 Project’s curriculum district-wide.

“Both sides of the “Christian America” debate employ the same strategy: posit a world in which everyone is either a Christian or a deist, show the American founders weren’t in your opponent’s camp, and then claim, as a result, that they must’ve been in yours.” - TGC

“One result: The New York Times just last month (Dec. 13) could blandly assert the fake history consensus that ‘in the 17th and 18th centuries, abortion was legal under common law’ through the first 16 weeks and ‘not considered immoral or murderous.’ …We need to challenge such falsehoods” - Marvin Olasky