1776 Commission

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

The 1776 Commission marks the depth of right-wing commitment to ideological pseudo-history that can be used to shut down meaningful conversation about racism.

The president's "1776 Commission" marks a turning point in his rhetoric.

The president has blamed schools for spurring the unrest in several U.S. cities that has led in some cases to looting and fires.

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.

Conservatives want to make students patriotic. Instead, they exacerbate historical illiteracy.

The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.

Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

The chaotic quest to mythologize America’s past.

As demands for racial justice grow, Trump is pushing historical mythmaking into high gear.

Trump’s executive orders can’t define diversity out of history.

Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.

What was the liberal #Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And what did commentators like Heather Cox Richardson morph into during the Biden years?

America’s path has been contested since its founding, and realizing the promise of liberty required generations of struggle.

Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it's not that simple.

It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.

Right and left are united in a vulgar form of historicism.

The legislature established a committee last year to “promote patriotic education.” Drafts of one of its pamphlets reveal an effort to sanitize history.

What the recent debates over presentism get wrong.

We are living through a time when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.

The 1836 Project will indoctrinate new Texans with fables about our history.

Historian Daryl Scott weighs in on the 1619 Project and the "possibility that we rend ourselves on the question of race."

Fights over history like those in the U.S. are happening all over the world.

Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting.

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

America, you’ve got the dates wrong. Your intense debate over which year marks the real beginning of the United States—1619 (slavery’s arrival) or 1776.

The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.

The idea of history’s judgment was, and remains, seductive. Yet this notion cannot withstand scrutiny, as Joan Wallach Scott’s On the Judgment of History shows.

Old feuds remind us that history is continually revised, driven by new evidence and present-day imperatives.

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.