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Erasing Thomas Jefferson: Ignorance of Historical Context

Erasing Thomas Jefferson: Ignorance of Historical Context
Detail, “Declaration of Independence” by John Trumbull (1819), depicting the Committee of Five—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. Public domain
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Recently, I wrote an article about the removal of Kate Smith’s recording of “God Bless America” from two famous American sports venues on grounds of racism. A primary point I made was that one could logically expect to see ongoing attempts to remove other and more prominent Americans from the public arena.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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