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“Would you want your doctors not to be revisionists?”

John Fea   |  April 1, 2025

We covered Trump’s executive order on American history here. Today at The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight offers his thoughts. A taste: According to the president, “objective facts” have been replaced with a “distorted narrative driven by […]

The latest Christian Right critique of the 1619 Project is full of problems. Let’s break it down.

John Fea   |  January 16, 2022

Jerry Newcombe is a writer and local Florida radio host who comes out of the D. James Kennedy (Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church of Ft. Lauderdale) wing of conservative evangelicals. He is also the president of a Christian nationalist historical organization […]

Heather Cox Richardson on rewriting history

John Fea   |  July 27, 2021

Earlier this month I wrote a long post on complexity and revisionism in the doing of history. Over at Milwaukee Independent, historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses the importance of rewriting history. She writes in the context of a recent revisionist […]

Is revisionist history “fiction”? Yes, if you are a Texas conservative.

John Fea   |  July 3, 2021

Kevin Roberts is the Chief Executive Officer of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He has a Ph.D in American history from the University of Texas. His 2003 dissertation was titled “Slaves and slavery in Louisiana: The Evolution of Atlantic World […]