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America, According to Hillsdale

Who gets to tell America’s story?
America, According to Hillsdale
Jonathan Woodward

Hillsdale College is small by most reckoning, but punching above its weight in influence, with its ethos and teaching saturating all levels of education far beyond its campus in Michigan.

It is showing up in charter schools. In civics curriculum. In state-level fights over history education. In Trump-aligned patriotic education projects. And recently, in “Rededicate 250,” a faith-filled gathering on the National Mall where conservative Christian leaders, political figures and Trump allies are preparing to rededicate America as “one nation under God.”


This week on Complexified, Amanda Henderson talks with RNS reporter Kathryn Post about how one small, academically serious, deeply conservative liberal arts college became a key intellectual partner in MAGA’s Christian America story.

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