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hagiography

Jack Hibbs is still talking about American history. And it’s getting worse.

John Fea   |  July 22, 2023

Last week I called your attention to megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs’s atrocious handling of the history of the Continental Army at Valley Forge. Now he is back with more. Watch: OK, let’s break it down: 1:10ff: Hibbs says, with no...

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Is This Video History or Hagiography?

John Fea   |  November 30, 2013

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History Wars: 1920s Style

John Fea   |  March 2, 2013 Leave a Comment

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

John Fea   |  January 2, 2013

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...

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The Power of a Historic Site

John Fea   |  May 30, 2012

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...

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