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History Wars: 1920s Style
The Story of Our American People Move aside David Barton. As Adam Laats, a historian of education at SUNY-Binghamton informs us, Mr. Barton was not the first author to write a strongly patriotic history of the United States that caused […]
Project Reading
I just finished Varnum Lansing Collins’s President Witherspoon, a two-volume biography of John Witherspoon published in 1925. It remains the best biography of Witherspoon out there. No other study is as comprehensive. Jeffry Morrison’s John Witherspoon and the Founding of...
The Power of a Historic Site
Jennifer Orr is a first-grade teacher in Virginia. Recently she took a trip to the home of Mason Locke Weems, the itinerant bookseller and Anglican minister who is famous for his hagiography of George Washington. Weems is responsible for a...