As part of a broader K-12 classical education curriculum posted online, 73 schools have adopted Hillsdale’s free resource, which stresses primary sources.
The “history wars” have heated up as more schools debate whether America’s founding goes back to Independence Day in 1776 or to the first Africans facing slavery in 1619 Virginia.
At least 17 other school districts are reviewing the curriculum, and tens of thousands of parents have downloaded it for home schooling or tutoring, the Michigan-based Christian college said Friday.“Americans, including the American founders themselves, have long believed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to be our official starting point as a nation,” said Emily Stack Davis, a Hillsdale spokesperson.
“The Hillsdale resources, with their focus on primary sources, is one example of the many resources that are being considered for use,” Pennridge said in a statement. “It’s also important to note that, at this time, nothing from Hillsdale has been added to the Pennridge School District curriculum.” “The underlying assumption of 1619 is historically correct: that slavery is the original sin of American history and racism is its toxic residue,” said Joseph Ellis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Fathers. “The way they apply that insight is often historically inaccurate. The Africans who went to Virginia in 1619 were not enslaved because slavery was not legal at the time.”
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