Check out my piece on David Barton, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Bible Society at The History News Network. Here is a taste: In a video he released in May 2015, Barton is pictured in the Wallbuilders library among the […]
Jefferson Lies series
David Barton: If Thomas Jefferson Were Alive Today He Would Vote For Ted Cruz
There are so many historical problems with such a statement. Perhaps most importantly it reveals the problem with trying to suggest how an eighteenth-century person would respond to a twenty-first century event or movement. For all of the historical errors […]
David Barton's _Jefferson Lies_ is Back and Warren Throckmorton is Ready
Warren Throckmorton, blogger and fact-checker extraordinaire, is the harshest critic of GOP activist David Barton. With the recent release of a new edition of Barton’s debunked The Jefferson Lies, Throckmorton has decided to take out a press release of his own: […]
Would David Barton Vote for Thomas Jefferson?
I have no idea how to answer this question. David Barton lives in the 21st-century. Thomas Jefferson lived a long time ago. Moreover, Jefferson was chosen POTUS by the Electoral College. The people did not vote directly for presidential candidates […]
A Tale of Two Jeffersons
Thomas Jefferson will be back in the news in early 2016 thanks to the publication of two new books. The first book is The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You Have Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson. It is a reprint […]
David Barton's *The Jefferson Lies* Is Back
Warren Throckmorton reminds me that the right-wing conservative website World Net Daily (WND) is republishing David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson.Here is the over-the-top promotional video for the book with very dramatic […]
World Net Daily is Publishing a New Edition of David Barton’s *The Jefferson Lies*
Warren Throckmorton has broken the news that the conservative website World Net Daily will be publishing a new edition of Barton’s largely discredited book. He writes: First, he said Simon & Schuster was going to publish it. They declined. Today, World […]
Throckmorton and Coulter Respond (Again) to Barton
Check out today’s post at the blog of World magazine. It is the final segment in World‘s ongoing coverage of David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies. Two of Barton’s strongest critics, Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter, offer some further critiques of […]
This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: Throckmorton and Barton Duke it Out
The debate over David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies continues. The conservative Christian World Magazine has published a lengthy essay by Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter drawn largely from their book, Getting Jefferson Right. The fitting title of their article is […]
David Barton on Jefferson as a Slaveholder
My analysis of David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies will have to stop, at least for the moment, with my short series on the methodological background of the book. I may return to the series in the near future, but right […]
Some Thoughts on David Barton’s “The Jefferson Lies”–Part One
I have finally had a chance to start reading David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson. I am about halfway through the book, so I thought it was time to post some thoughts. […]