Conservative organizations and foundations are helping to create new academic programs on college campuses focusing on Western culture and American history and politics, reports The New York Times.

Organizations such as the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, in Philadelphia, and the Veritas Fund for Higher Education, in New York, which funnel donations to establishing those types of academic programs, may soon gain federal support as the new Higher Education Act, signed into law last month, provides grants for “academic programs or centers” devoted to “traditional American history, free institutions or Western civilization,” reports the newspaper.

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