Kurtz: The College Board's Radical Revisionist U.S.
History Demotes the Founders
by Breitbart News 9 Sep 2014, 10:20 AM PDT
Writing at National Review Online, Stanley Kurtz
reveals why the College Board is demoting
the Founders in its new framework for the Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam:
What is the core of the American story? What is American
history about? For a long time, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was
thought to offer the most succinct and profound reply to these questions. The
heart of the American story was said to be the Founding, with its principles of
liberty and equality. American history was thus a study of our efforts to more
fully realize republican principles, often in the face of our own flaws and
failings. American history was also about the defense in peace and war of a
unique experiment—a nation bound by democratic norms, rather than by ties of
blood.
More recently, revisionist historians have developed a
different answer to the question of what America’s story is about. From their
perspective, at the heart of our country’s history—like the history of any
other powerful nation—lies the pursuit of empire, of dominion over others. In
this view, the formative American moment was the colonial assault on the
Indians. At its core, say the revisionists, America’s history is about our
capacity for self-delusion, our endless attempts to justify raw power grabs
with pretty fairy-tales about democracy.
The growing dispute over the College Board’s new Framework
for AP U.S.
History (APUSH) turns around
these clashing views of the American story. The creators and defenders of the
new APUSH Framework are adherents of a radically revisionist approach to
American history. That is why the Framers and the principles of our
Constitutional system receive short shrift in the new AP guidelines, and why
the conflict between settlers and Indians has taken center stage instead.
The College Board claims that teachers are perfectly free to
illustrate the new Framework’s themes by citing great figures of American
history. The problem with this is that the Framework’s core concepts have been
thoroughly shaped by the revisionist perspective. There is plenty of room for
the Founders as exemplars of prejudice or blinkered ambition, yet far less
opportunity to present them as architects of a principled republicanism.
College Board
Donald M. Stewart
was the president of the College Board,
and a senior program officer & special adviser to the president for the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Note:
Morton O.
Schapiro is a trustee at the College
Board, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory
A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
R. Eden
Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an
intern at Sidley Austin LLP
Newton N. Minow
is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and an honorary trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York.
Andrew Carnegie
was the founder of the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States
in war & taking over the teaching of American history)
Finally, of course, the war is over. At
that time their interest shifts over to preventing what they call a reversion
of life in the United States to what it was prior to 1914 when World War I
broke out. At that point they came to the conclusion that, to prevent a
reversion, “we must control education in the United States.” They realize that
that's a pretty big task. It is too big for them alone, so they approach the
Rockefeller Foundation with the suggestion that that portion of education which
could be considered domestic be handled by the Rockefeller Foundation and that
portion which is international should be handled by the Endowment. They then
decide that the key to success of these two operations lay in the alteration of
the teaching of American history
So they approach four of the then-most prominent teachers of American history in the country – people
like Charles and Mary Byrd – and their suggestion to them is: will they alter
the manner in which they present their subject? And they got turned down flat.
So they then decide that it is necessary for them to do as they say, “build our
own stable of historians.”
Then they approach the Guggenheim Foundation, which specializes in fellowships, and say: “When we find young men in the process of studying for doctorates in the field of American history and we feel that they are the right caliber, will you grant them fellowships on our say-so?” And the answer is yes. So, under that condition, eventually they assembled assemble twenty, and they take this twenty potential teachers of American history to London, and there they're briefed on what is expected of them when, as, and if they secure appointments in keeping with the doctorates they will have earned. That group of twenty historians ultimately becomes the nucleus of the American Historical Association.
Toward the end of the 1920's, the Endowment grants to the American Historical Association $400,000 for a study of our history in a manner which points to what can this country look
Then they approach the Guggenheim Foundation, which specializes in fellowships, and say: “When we find young men in the process of studying for doctorates in the field of American history and we feel that they are the right caliber, will you grant them fellowships on our say-so?” And the answer is yes. So, under that condition, eventually they assembled assemble twenty, and they take this twenty potential teachers of American history to London, and there they're briefed on what is expected of them when, as, and if they secure appointments in keeping with the doctorates they will have earned. That group of twenty historians ultimately becomes the nucleus of the American Historical Association.
Toward the end of the 1920's, the Endowment grants to the American Historical Association $400,000 for a study of our history in a manner which points to what can this country look
forward to in the future. That culminates in a seven-volume
study, the last volume of which is, of course, in essence a summary of the
contents of the other six. The essence of the last volume is: The future of
this country belongs to collectivism administered with characteristic American
efficiency. That's the story that ultimately grew out of and, of course, was
what could have been presented by the members of this Congressional committee
to the congress as a whole for just exactly what it said. They never got to
that point.
ED GRIFFIN: This is the story that emerged from the
minutes of the Carnegie Endowment?
NORMAN DODD: That's right. It was official to that extent.
Roger W.
Ferguson Jr. was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank), and an overseer at Harvard
University.
Robert C. Darnton
is the library director for Harvard
University, and was the president of the American Historical Association.
Lawrence H. Summers was the professor; former president of Harvard University, National Economic
Council chairman for the Barack Obama
administration, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Susan E. Rice was
a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the former
U.S. ambassador to UN for the Barack Obama
administration, is the White House national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and her
mother is Lois Dickson Fitt.
Lois Dickson
Fitt is Susan E. Rice’s mother,
was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the
VP for the College Board.
Donald M. Stewart
was the president of the College Board,
and a senior program officer & special adviser to the president for the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Morton O.
Schapiro is a trustee at the College
Board, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial
Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday,
December 17, 2013
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