ACTA:
Recognizing that America’s 250th anniversary is cause for both celebration and a long-overdue call for renewal, 24 historians, political scientists, and education leaders have joined ACTA’s National Commission on American History and Civic Education. The National Commission has a simple, yet essential goal: the restoration of the requirement that every college student complete a semester-long course on the American story. Our schoolteachers, our business leaders, our professionals, and our government leaders must not receive a diploma without this training.
It is an ambitious goal, a multi-year project, which will do much to fulfill the vision of the American Founders. In this Broadside for the Nation, we explain in detail why American higher education must restore this foundational requirement for college graduates to know the American story, what such a course might include, and, crucially, how to make this vision a reality.