The United States turns 250 next year, and the President is gearing up for what he says will be a yuuuuuge celebration.
Of course lots of people are super triggered by this.
Something strange happens wherever we talk about celebrating America now.
You say something like, “Man, the people who settled this country sure did some crazy-important stuff!” And then they say, “Oh so you like slavery. Wow. Ok. I didn’t know you were a racist.”
Blink… Blink… Blink…
I was recently quoted in The Washington Times about this very thing.
The article highlights Trump’s plan to celebrate America’s founding—and how predictably outraged certain academics and activists have become.
Here’s what I said:
“America has been suffering from an identity crisis. One portion of the country is proud of its heritage, despite its defects and problems. The other portion is ashamed of its past and refuses to recognize the good that came from people who also did bad things.”
That’s the core of the problem, isn’t it?
Kids today are being taught to hate the people who came before them—or at least to dismiss them because they didn’t live up to 21st-century moral standards. (Also, there’s a lot to be said about the so-called “moral” standards of today but that’s a subject for another email).
But here’s the thing: if we only ever study perfect people, we’ll never study history at all.
And if we don't study history, we won't learn its lessons. And that’s actually really dangerous.
That’s why we created the America’s History books and curriculum.
Your kids deserve better than a guilt trip dressed up as education. They deserve the full story—told honestly, thoughtfully, and without a political agenda.
Yes, we talk about slavery.
Yes, we talk about injustice, war, inequality, and corruption.
But we also talk about courage, sacrifice, invention, faith, progress, and perseverance.
We talk about how ideas—good ideas—shaped a nation and changed the world.
Our two-volume set (plus the companion curriculum) is unlike anything kids are getting in classrooms, or in any other homeschool curriculum. It doesn’t shy away from the hard stuff, but it also doesn’t turn studying history into a struggle session.
It invites kids to think critically, ask better questions, and actually understand the messy, complicated, extraordinary story of the American experiment.
If that’s the kind of history you want your children or grandchildren to learn, start here:
👉 See the America’s History bundle and curriculum
Because when we stop teaching kids to be proud of the good, all we’re left with is the bad.
That’s not history; that’s propaganda.
And all we have to do is look around to see the fruit that kind of “education” yields, and yeah.. no thanks.
We’ve got something better.
– Connor
