The Rewriting of America's History

by Catherine Millard, D. James Kennedy

Catherine Millard undertakes to describe how the history of America has been reinterpreted and rewritten by secularist and humanist historians who have systematically excluded much that relates to faith in God from their accounts.

Genres: History, Christian, Nonfiction

462 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Gloria · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author has done an amazing job of pulling together a lot of research on America's founding. It was a bit dry at places, but well worth the read.

[Ange · Rating 5 out of 5]

She gives us the people or place. Tells about them & then gives what is being said today. The national park service looks bad. I notices this when I went on the tour with Barron to Jamestown in 1994. the history interpretor looks only at politically correct history.

[Rebecca Thomason · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a very startling read. I wish everyone could read this. Sometimes I felt as though they laid it on too heavily, but as the book progresses one can understand why. After reading this I am now curious how much all the secularism has accelerated in the past 15 years. What a sad, sad state our country is in!

[Patrick · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lots of good info on historical landmarks, but too much oversimplifying of the founding fathers (they had very different backgrounds, influences, and beliefs) and the non-problem of some of the changes that she saw happening in the Library of Congress (old books GASP! temporarily stacked up alongside boxes and other books being re-cataloged).

[Read-n-Bloom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book to read about our American history, our TRUE American history. Not the watered down version that some would have you to believe. Things I had known, learned, and are no longer taught in public schools. They teach us history, but leave our Christian heritage out. Many believe it's not even true. But read it for yourself, especially if you like American history, especially how it all started. If you didn't know it already, you will be astounded to find out. There were new things I even learned...

[Katie Harder-schauer · Rating 1 out of 5]

I started reading this book when my husband was in the military. My husband has been out of the military for over two years now. In my defense, it spent six months "missing" in a box after we moved out of military housing.

This book took me a long time to read partially because I spent a lot of time raging at the book for using faulty half-made arguments. Most of the examples the author uses to support her claims only show the information currently provided at some of our nation's historical landmarks, which does show a lack of the religious information that she believes should be provided, but it doesn't prove that anything has been changed. There is no evidence provided that shows that these landmarks have ever emphasized a Christian background.

I also raged against the idea that the most important facet of our founding fathers' lives was their religion, which the author doesn't even have entirely correct in the first place. I personally think our founding fathers did far more important things for our nation than attend church on a regular basis.

I really lost it, though, when she used the Pledge of Allegiance, which was changed in the 1950's to include the words "under God," as proof of our nation's Christian heritage. Words that were added during the Red Scare to "combat" Communism do not demonstrate our nation's Christian heritage, and if the founding fathers had wanted God mentioned in the pledge, he would have been from the start.

The real kicker though, was the complaints about renovations to The Library of Congress. She talks about how the library houses many books that clearly demonstrate our nation's Christian heritage, and that these books are priceless one of a kind treasures, and then complains about them being moved to the Rare Books Reading Room, where they are no longer available to the general public. The complaint about them not being available to the general public is somewhat valid, but if they're so priceless, shouldn't she be concerned with their preservation? I feel like she needs to decide which is more important, unfettered access to the books or their preservation for generations to come.

If you are like the author and feel that the U.S. is a Christian nation founded entirely on Christian principles, you will very likely enjoy this book. For me, it gets 1 out of 5 stars because it failed to support the arguments made in spectacular fashion.

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[Ladypoet33]

This was suprising and a little disquieting. I want to study this topic more in depth.

[Paul Kovatch · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will miss him

[Sean McGowan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay. Gave some good insight though. Good primary sources.