As America celebrates its 250th birthday, it’s prime time for historians such as Jeff Bloodworth to set the record straight.
Bloodworth, a professor at Pennsylvania’s Gannon University, noted that it had become trendy among historians to “demythologize” the Founding Fathers.
“But it has gone too far,” he told The Epoch Times. “The achievements of the founders and the founding are obscured by the lists of sins.”
Now, he thinks “the pendulum is swinging back” toward a more balanced, nuanced, and accurate view of the founders—and about other aspects of American history.
Through his role with Heterodox Academy—a bipartisan group advocating for open inquiry on college campuses—Bloodworth said he sees “there’s a real pushback against this stuff.”…