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David Barton

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• Originally published 12/23/2014

  The Unsuspecting Thing Conservative Historian David Barton Did With $1 Million Awarded to Him in Defamation Lawsuit

  Conservative historian David Barton has given away the money he won as the result of a $1 million judgement issued earlier this year.

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• Originally published 12/02/2014

  David Barton's ongoing refusal to admit his mistakes, even after being confronted by Christian historians

  "The awareness of Barton’s systematic distortion of the nation’s founding is well known at the highest levels of the Christian political right."

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• Originally published 07/24/2014

  Ukrainian Leaders Are Using David Barton's Theocratic Pseudo-History To Build Their Nation

  "They were absolutely shocked to find out how practical the Bible was," Barton said.

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• Originally published 06/26/2014

  "Faux-historian David Barton’s shocking new influence"

  He was invited to participate in Tea Party events all over the country and even held a constitutional seminar for the 2010 incoming freshman class at the invitation of congresswoman Michele Bachmann.

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• Originally published 05/03/2014

  David Barton: Allowing women to vote ‘hurts the entire culture and society’

  Barton argued that in the time since the women’s suffrage movement succeeded in the United States, “we’ve moved into more of a family anarchy kind of thing.”

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• Originally published 02/09/2014

  Debunked Christian Historian David Barton Denies Global Warming, Claims Weather Is God's Judgment

  "And today we're saying 'oh no, it's global warming.' No, we opened a door that lost God's protection over our environment and that's our choice."

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• Originally published 11/04/2013

  Texas tea party seeks Ted Cruz 2.0: David Barton

  Activists seek Barton to run against Sen. John Cornyn.

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• Originally published 08/09/2013

  Where's that Simon and Schuster Edition of "The Jefferson Lies" David Barton's Been Promising?

  Exactly one year ago today, on August 9, 2012, Christian publisher Thomas Nelson took the virtually unprecedented action of pulling one of its books from publication due to the book's many inaccuracies. That book, of course, was David Barton's The Jefferson Lies.

• Originally published 08/05/2013

  Warren Throckmorton: A Year Ago Thomas Nelson Lost Confidence in "The Jefferson Lies"

  Warren Throckmorton is Professor of Psychology at Grove City College and Fellow for Psychology and Public Policy at the Center for Vision and Values which is a part of Grove City College.

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• Originally published 07/25/2013

  David Barton: Only Four Professors Criticized "The Jefferson Lies"

  David Barton just can't seem to get his facts straight.

• Originally published 03/05/2013

  Adam Laats: Get In Line, David Barton

  Adam Laats researches and writes about conservative educational activism.What history books should American school children read?Most recently, the history darling-in-chief among many conservatives has been Wallbuilders’ David Barton.  Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, and other conservative politicians have praised Barton’s vision of American history.

• Originally published 01/17/2013

  David Barton: History proves armed elementary kids prevent school shootings

  Conservative host Glenn Beck and "historian" David Barton on Tuesday debuted a new show called "Foundations of Freedom" and suggested that history proved that school shootings could be prevented if all elementary school children were armed.After pointing out that some areas of the United States required every household to own a gun in the late 1800s, Beck told Barton that "everybody grew up with a gun" and it was "part of school."Barton noted that guns were only fired in schools at the time to stop criminal activity."The great example, in the 1850s you have a school teacher who's teaching," the historian explained. "A guy, he's out in the West, this guy from New England wants to kill him and find him. So, he comes into the school with his gun to shoot the teacher, he decides not to shoot the teacher because all the kids pull their guns out and point it at him and say, 'You kill the teacher, you die.' He says, 'Okay.' The teacher lives. Real simple stuff."...

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• Originally published 10/21/1976

  Debunking David Barton's Jefferson Lies

  Because they still need to be debunked.

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• Originally published 03/06/2014

  THE LOST SPRING IS COMING

  My new book of 2014 is taking analysis and projections even further. It explains why the West and the United States failed to predict the Arab Spring and why they failed to handle it effectively. The book also addresses the direction these upheavals are headed and how to correct U.S. policy before irreparable catastrophe strikes the region. From bloody and expanding civil wars in Syria, Iraq and Libya to the fight against terror in Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia; from genocide in Sudan, Darfur and beyond to the persecution of Christian and ethnic minorities and the rise of al Qaeda and Hezbollah; so much in the region appears hopeless, but one must also recognize the emergence of reformers, women, minorities and civil societies.