David Barton, promoter of “American Christian History” and increasingly popular pundit, thanks in no small measure to Glenn Beck, has a long history of pseudo-scholarship. His work has shaped a ...

David Barton is what I call a “faux historian.” With only a B.A. in religious education from Oral Roberts University, Barton has written widely on American history, remaking it into his own image.

I spent many a bus trip in my evangelical youth watching David Barton videos discussing how everything good in American history was created by Christians, and not just Christians, but ones that ...