The 1776 commission, established by President Donald Trump in December to promote “patriotic education,” on Monday released its report, a sweeping account of American history as defined by a host of Trump allies that seeks to reject historians' accounts of the nation's slave-owning founders and to counter the New York Times Magazine’s controversial 1619 Project. The report calls former Vice President John C. Calhoun "the leading forerunner of identity politics."Days after the Capitol takeover, the report compares today’s disagreements about the country’s history and how it should be governed to those “between the Confederate and Union forces in the Civil War.”“In recent years, a series of polemics grounded in poor scholarship has vilified our Founders and our founding,” Trump said in his executive order announcing the creation of the commission in December. “Despite the virtues and accomplishments of this Nation, many students are now taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but rather villains.”The 1776 commission is a clear counter to the Times’ 1619 Project, which Trump and fellow Republicans have blasted repeatedly and tried to prevent schools from teaching. The project, first published in August 2019, seeks to re-examine the country’s history and challenge the widely held notion the country was founded in 1776. The title essay won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020.“By turning to bitterness and judgment, distorted histories of those like Howard Zinn or the journalists behind the ‘1619 Project’ have prevented their students from learning to think inductively with a rich repository of cultural, historical, and literary referents,” the 1776 commission report states, attacking the 1619 Project directly. “They disdain today’s students, just as they doubt the humanity, goodness, or benevolence in America’s greatest historical figures.”Trump appoints 1776 Commission members in last-minute bid to advance 'patriotic education' (Politico)The 1619 Project (New York Times)


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