A glimpse inside Hillsdale College's network of classical schools across the country.
Instead of helping us to deepen ourselves and take a mature and complex view of the past, history is increasingly employed as a simple bludgeon, which picks its targets mechanically—often based on little more than a popular cliché—and strikes.
Recognizing the critical moment in which we live, and in response to what Prof. Wilfred S. McClay calls "the weaponization of history," Hillsdale College's K-12 Education department has published a comprehensive K-12 American history and government curriculum for students, parents, and teachers.
The Classical Classroom 