The 1619 Project is on children's reading lists celebrating America's birthday.
Benjamin Franklin called the Constitutional Convention to prayer, but the Left just called him irrelevant.
And now Ben Carson just revealed what your grandchildren's library doesn't want them to know.
Zero Out of 300 Books Touched Faith or Religious Liberty
Someone handed children's publishers and public libraries 250 years of American history and they came back with zero – not one title addressing faith, religious liberty, or Christianity's role in the founding.
That's what Brave Books found after analyzing over 300 titles across 25 reading lists curated for the nation's upcoming 250th anniversary.
Not one.
Meanwhile, Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped for Kids made the cut.
So did Nikole Hannah-Jones's Born on the Water – a picture book tied to the discredited 1619 Project.
The same 1619 Project that five prominent historians wrote a letter demanding corrections for.
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The same project that had to quietly revise its central claim after a fact-checker exposed it as historically false.
Recommended lists also included titles devoted to transgender activism during the 1969 Stonewall Riots – picture books aimed at young children.
Kate Messner's History Smashers series got prominent placement too – books marketed as exposing the "myths, lies, and secrets" hiding in American history.
Books on the Great Awakening were absent.
Books on the faith lives of the Founders were absent.
The curators had a tell: they kept reaching for the words "complicated," "hidden," and "untold" to describe American history.
That word choice is not accidental.
The Left Has Been Running This Play Since 2019
This didn't start with America's 250th anniversary reading lists.
The 1619 Project launched in August 2019 with the explicit goal of reframing the entire American story around slavery – declaring that 1619, not 1776, was the true founding date.
By spring 2020, over 4,500 classrooms had adopted the curriculum.
School districts in Buffalo, Chicago, Newark, and Washington, D.C. announced district-wide adoptions.
The Heritage Foundation analyzed the pattern and found exactly what Brave Books confirmed seven years later – an institutional gatekeeping system with one purpose: erase the version of America that made children proud to be American.
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Now the same ideology controls what libraries recommend for the 250th anniversary.
Brave Books CEO Trent Talbot didn't mince words: "The bias isn't geographic, it's institutional. Red state, blue state – it doesn't matter when the gatekeepers are all aligned ideologically and share the same assumptions."
He's right.
And the timing couldn't be more intentional.
Ben Carson Named the Mechanism the Left Doesn't Want Named
Dr. Carson put his finger on exactly why this matters and exactly why the Left is doing it.
"The Declaration of Independence says our rights come from our Creator," he told Fox News Digital. "Benjamin Franklin called the Constitutional Convention to prayer before they produced a document that has stood for 250 years."
He's citing a documented historical event – on June 28, 1787, Franklin stood up and asked that the Convention open its sessions with prayer, arguing that without God's help no human wisdom would be sufficient.
That event doesn't appear on a single recommended reading list for America's 250th.
Carson continued: "A generation that does not know where their freedoms come from will not know why those freedoms are worth fighting for."
This is Ronald Reagan's warning made concrete.
Reagan said freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
The Left figured that out too.
Strip the faith from the founding story, and you strip the foundation from the rights.
No Creator means no rights come from God.
No rights from God means rights come from the government.
Rights that come from the government can be taken back by the government.
That is the entire game.
Riley Gaines said it plainly: "Many institutions have become so focused on emphasizing what's broken, unfinished, or flawed that they've stopped teaching kids what makes America the greatest, freest, most prosperous nation in the world."
That framing is a choice.
It's a deliberate choice made by people who have decided your grandchildren should feel ashamed of their country before they're old enough to vote.
Three Books the Libraries Won't Recommend
Carson's Built on Faith covers the role faith played in the nation's founding.
Kirk Cameron's Built by the Brave tells children that bravery isn't the absence of fear – it's doing what's right anyway.
Riley Gaines's One Two Three We Are Free teaches toddlers to count their blessings in America.
The White House is doing its part too.
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Trump's Freedom 250 initiative hosted Rededicate 250 on the National Mall on May 17 – 250 years to the day after the Second Continental Congress called for a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer in 1776.
Vice President Vance said it directly at that event: "The morality and religion that formed the American consciousness were decidedly Christian, founded upon the principles and the divinity of Jesus Christ."
The Left called it Christian nationalism.
Your grandparents called it American history.
Your public library is now calling it something that doesn't belong on the reading list.
Sources:
- Kristine Parks, "Ben Carson, Riley Gaines Fight Scrubbing of Faith From Kids' US History Books for America's 250th," Fox News, June 23, 2026.
- "A Review of the 1619 Project Curriculum," The Heritage Foundation.
- "Freedom 250," The White House, whitehouse.gov.
- Trent Talbot, Brave Books CEO, Fox News Digital, June 23, 2026.
