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The report equates progressivism to fascism and communism, condones the nation's history with slavery and calls for "patriotic education" in schools.

It was not long after the federal Constitution was created in 1787 that many antislavery Northerners began labelling it a pro-slavery document. Parts of it did support slavery — the clause that counted a slave as three-fifths of a person, which gave the slave states greater representation in Congress and the Electoral College than opponents of slavery believed they deserved; and the fugitive slave clause, which required persons held to service who had escaped to free states to be returned to their owners. We have long known of this pro-slavery view of the Constitution, one that has been m...

The framers would have seen the mob at the Capitol as traitors Carlton F.W. Larson, The Washington Post Jan. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Supporters of President Trump storm the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein. The scenes are nearly unbelievable: An armed mob storming the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the counting of the electoral votes. The rioters claimed to be patriots, some of them even waving the Revolutionary War flag "Don't Tread on Me." So what would our nation's founders have thought about this conduct? The answer is pretty clear - they would ha...

The display shows President Abraham Lincoln standing over a formerly enslaved man wearing broken shackles on his wrists.

Workers dismantled a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Boston Tuesday, after the city agreed with protesters who say the memorial is demeaning and lacks proper