#188 Why the 1776 Report Still Matters w/ John Fea

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

One of Joe Biden's first acts as President of the United States was to sign an executive order that disbanded his predecessor's advisory committee to promote "patriotic education." This came just two days after the so-called 1776 Commission had published its report, leading many critics to see the report as old news. In reality though, the 1776 report is indicative of social and political forces that transcend Trump's time in office. In this episode Bob and Ben talk with historian John Fea about the content of the report, how it relates to the New York Times 1619 Project, and the many problems that come from setting out to write a "patriotic history."

John Fea is a Professor of History at Messiah University and author of the blog/host of the podcast, The Way of Improvement Leads Home. You can follow him on twitter at @JohnFea1.

Hear Bob Crawford's first conversation w/ John Fea in RTN Theology #2: Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?

This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.

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1:06.1	That's C-L-E-M-S-N-I-D-E.
1:16.3	I'm Ben Sawyer.
1:17.9	I'm Bob Crawford.
1:19.2	John Fia, welcome to the Road to Now.
1:21.6	Hey, good to be here, guys.
1:23.3	So great to have you.
1:25.6	This Monday, this past Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday when the 1776 commission was released by the Trump administration just two days before they left office.
1:42.2	Ben and I were talking about how just crazy this document is and how outside of history,
1:51.2	this history sits.
1:52.8	And we wanted to get somebody on who could help us explain what's really wrong with it.
1:59.4	And I thought about you first. So I'm so glad that you're here with us.
2:03.6	Yeah. Thanks so much for having me. I've been actually writing a little bit about it at my blog,
2:08.5	the way of improvement.com. But yeah, so I've been thinking a little bit about this. So this is
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