The 1776 Report

The 1776 Report is a propaganda piece written by the 1776 Commission, published in the last few days of the Trump administration. Its purpose is to facilitate "patriotic education", that is to help brainwash American students with white supremacist and rabidly anti-liberal/anti-communist version of US history in line with the conservative correctness agenda.

History
The 1776 Commission was an advisory committee established by Trump. Trump had referenced "patriotic education" as a priority of his several times in the autumn of 2020, and likely established the commission within months of the end of his term. The establishment of the Commission (and the eventual publication of the Report) was seemingly a response to the Black Lives Matter movement in general and The New York Times' 1619 Project in particular; the latter being a collection of essays that frame American history in the context of Black slavery and civil rights movements.

The Commission was disbanded and the Report was revoked on President Joe Biden's inauguration day.

Members of the Commission
The Commission did not have any professional historians who specialized in United States history. A few members are tangentially qualified - a few academics here, a constitutional lawyer there - but most are pundits or politicians. The Commission included: • 2 The Report included no scholarly citations, and it was not stated which of the commission members were the primary author(s).

Contents
The report distorts fact, spews outright lies, doesn't cite sources, and engages in large-scale Red-baiting, especially in the later portions. This section will analyze it chapter by chapter.

As Scholarship
To call this report "scholarship" is to insult the word itself by comparing it to the 1776 Commission. The document is only forty-five pages, which is absurdly light for a document that proports to be about over two centuries of history. When people started looking at what was in the report, many found it to be a sloppy copy and pasting of the other works of those involved with little effort put into their placement.