Over at the Albert Mohler and Andrew T. Walker’s WORLD magazine culture war newsletter, Miles Smith, a history professor at Hillsdale College, seems to think that evangelical historians who criticize Donald Trump must be trying to cozy-up to the secular...
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Salon covers Hillsdale College’s outsized influence on K-12 education
Yesterday the left-leaning Salon stated a three-part series on Hillsdale College’s influence on local school boards. Here is a taste of Part 1: The mood in Costa Mesa on Feb. 2 was more love bomb than fire bomb: yet another...
What is going at Hillsdale College and the state of Tennessee’s education system?
We wrote about Tennessee governor Bill Lee’s relationship with Hillsdale last month. We have also offered a few posts reviewing the 1776 Commission, a Trump-supported group tasked with creating a patriotic-oriented curriculum. Hillsdale president Larry Arnn led the commission and...
How Hillsdale College, the “champion of American exceptionalism,” is shaping civics education in Tennessee
In November 2020, then president Donald Trump announced his 1776 Commission, a commission charged with delivering a conservative alternative to The New York Times 1619 Project. There were no American historians on the commission, but there was plenty of room...