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May 11, 2011 2:02 pm
Historians Agree: David Barton Is No Historian
…David Barton has been in the spotlight lately. In recent weeks, he was featured in a New York Times profile, interviewed on “The Daily Show,” and was even the…
August 7, 2012 5:20 pm
Is David Barton’s Sloppy Scholarship Starting to Catch up With Him?
…Pseudo-historian David Barton has been receiving significant criticism from conservative and evangelical historians who are aghast at his numerous and deliberate misrepresentations of American history, and yet Barton continues…
June 12, 2012 11:45 am
Why is David Barton Ducking Debates About his Work?
…Last year, Warren Throckmorton began writing a series of blog posts about the false claims made by David Barton about Thomas Jefferson, which eventually culminated in a new book…
May 14, 2024 3:33 pm
Rick Green Spreads False Christian Nationalist History
…radio program “WallBuilders Live” with religious-right pseudo-historians David and Tim Barton, bills himself as “America’s Constitution Coach” despite his tendency to routinely misrepresent basic facts about the Constitution, which he…
September 29, 2022 4:11 pm
Barton’s Bible Bunk: More Evidence of How David Barton Misuses History and Scripture for Political Purposes
…Earlier this month, we published a piece exposing how religious-right pseudo-historian David Barton routinely misrepresents history and scripture to support his Christian nationalist political agenda. In that case, we…
November 4, 2013 2:10 pm
15 Things You Need To Know About David Barton, The Man Who Could Be Texas’s Next Senator
…and radio show co-host Rick Green has launched a Facebook page to draft Barton run for U.S. Senate against the Republican incumbent John Cornyn. On October 30, Green wrote that…
August 16, 2012 11:39 am
What Happens When Glenn Beck’s ‘The Blaze’ Tries to Fact-Check David Barton?
…Blaze was founded by Barton’s BFF Glenn Beck, it is no surprise that most of the coverage of Barton and his work has been, shall we say, rather flattering and…
April 28, 2020 5:11 pm
David Barton Claims Non-Christians’ Fear of Death Led to Public Policy ‘Panic’ on COVID-19
…Religious-right “historian” and Republican political activist David Barton said last week that governors have shut down the country out of fear and panic because America has become so secularized…
May 6, 2024 5:15 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: He Means What He Says
…was we posted about them. Finally, David Barton claims that Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, George Washington, and John Adams “all pointed to Jeremiah 17:9 as the reason we have the…
May 7, 2024 5:30 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Thank God For White Privilege
…The key thing to know about David Barton is not just that he spreads Christian nationalist disinformation, but that he keeps spreading it even after it’s been debunked….