Applying America’s History and Principles to the National Conversation

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Wishing You a Safe and Joyful 2021
Happy New Year from the Jack Miller Center!

America's history has had much to teach us in 2020. As this difficult year comes to a close, we're looking back to important pieces of history we shared in 2020 and the enduring ideas that unite us as a country.
From pandemics to mail-in voting to the Electoral College, the American Experiment moves onward.
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Context to Controversies
Top 5 Historical Pieces of 2020
Does Federalism Work in a Pandemic?
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In our federal system, both the federal government and the states have certain powers. The coronavirus pandemic has brought about a public dispute over the wisdom of federalism. What good is federalism in an emergency?


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Martin Luther King Embraced America's Founding Principles

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Martin Luther King's resilient faith in America's founding principles has great implications for those who doubt the Declaration and Constitution as documents that uphold freedom and equality for all.

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1619 vs. 1776: Are We an Irredeemably Racist Nation?
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Professors Lucas Morel and Wilfred McClay examined claims in The NYT Magazine's "1619 Project."
"Acknowledging America's failures to fully realize our founding ideals need not come at the expense of celebrating its progress toward that goal—U.S. history should not be interpreted as "a zero-sum story."

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Should We Be Celebrating the Founders?

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America's founding history was shaped by complicated and flawed individuals. Should we celebrate the founders and their vision for the United States? Or should we condemn them for being slaveholders?

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Why We Should Preserve the Electoral College
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The Electoral College is criticized as unfair, outdated, and ultimately undemocratic. Why not simply let a popular vote decide the election?

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The Battle for the Soul of our Nation

Education is crucial to a self-governing nation. Our freedoms rely on the education of each new generation of citizens on the founding principles on which our country is founded and under which we have thrived as free people and of our history toward achieving that promise in our Declaration that “all men are created equal."

Yet, at this moment, classrooms around the country are banning classic texts, promoting false narratives about America, and disparaging our history or omitting it altogether. Spurring anti-American sentiment among our young people has grave implications for our country.

In the words of our own Jack Miller, “The battle for the soul of our nation will be won or lost in our classrooms.”

That battle is our sole mission. Every student needs to be taught the real story of America—our history, our founding principles, and the fundamental idea in our Declaration, that all men are created equal and are entitled to their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

Our history, both failures, and triumphs are the effort to achieve our founding ideals. Our freedoms can only be protected if each generation of citizens carries that understanding forward.

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About the Jack Miller Center

The Jack Miller Center is a 501(c)(3) public charity with the mission to reinvigorate education in America's founding principles and history. We work to advance the teaching and study of America's history, its political and economic institutions, and the central principles, ideas and issues arising from the American and Western traditions—all of which continue to animate our national life.

We support professors and educators through programs, resources, fellowships and more to help them teach our nation's students.

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