The center’s eponymous founder committed his fortune from the office supply business to “solving the national crisis of uninformed citizenship by teaching America’s founding principles and history.” The center aims to de-escalate the subject by bypassing interpretive textbooks and online learning aids and going directly to the original documents – the Federalist Papers, presidential speeches and letters, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and much more. Its K-12 teacher workshops include the types of readings and writers that were largely ignored in the stodgy civics instruction a generation ago: first lady Abigail Adams, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, the Slavery Provisions of the U.S. Constitution, pro-slavery advocate John Calhoun, poets Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes, Nikole Hannah-Jones (the architect of the NYT’s 1619 Project), and Amanda Gorman, the African American poet who recited her verse, “This Hill We Climb,” at President Biden’s 2021 inauguration. It cited as historical authorities the controversial 1619 Project – a series of magazine articles later published as a book claiming that the nation’s founding ideals were a “lie” to justify the creation of a “slavocracy” – and the “antiracist” polemics of Ibram X. Kendi, who famously wrote that “the only remedy to past discrimination [against blacks] is present discrimination [against whites].”
Author: John Murawski, Real Clear Wire
Published at: 2025-08-30 18:43:08
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