On Dec. 18, President Donald Trump officially announced the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission, which will focus on the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 initiative, according to Newsmax.
The 18-member panel will be chaired by Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn and vice-chaired by retired Vanderbilt University professor Carol M. Swain. Also included are conservative activist Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, and Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant. The committee’s executive director will be Matthew Spalding, vice president and dean of educational programs at Hillsdale College.
According to Politico, Spalding said in a statement, “The 1776 Commission was created to advise the president on the core principles of America’s founding and how to protect those principles by promoting patriotic education. A new, confident path to national unity by reclaiming our common identity rooted in those principles.”
President Trump established the commission in an executive order issued last month to ”better inform the next generation about the history and principles that led to the founding of the United States in 1776 and to work toward a more perfect union.”
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