Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story By Timothy S. Goeglein (Fidelis Publishing, 208 pages, $26) One of the worst sins of the present — not just ours but any present…
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to…
This month, I am marking 30 years of leading an organization that provides opportunities for college students to intern and study in Washington, D.C., and internationally. My time at The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) has provided perspective on how students…
Everyone has an opinion about what children should be taught, but we don’t give proper thought to what civilizational keys they should not be handed too soon. Our inability to teach children things in their proper order is arguably one reason we’re…
Who is Mark Bray, and why is he being given a platform in major news outlets, such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Post, to provide a rebuttal to the president’s call to designate…
In December, the Zinn Education Project (ZEP), a non-profit co-founded in 2007 by William Holtzman, one of Howard Zinn’s Boston University students (class of 1974), to spread the lessons of Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States, excitedly…
In a recent poll by YouGov and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, 70 percent of millennial Americans (23 to 38 years old) are likely to vote socialist, and 36 percent have a favorable view of communism. In a 2018 YouGov…
“That’s the scumbag that has been screwing up all my friends!” So said Zach, a student who walked into my office and noticed the copy of Mary Grabar’s new book, Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a…