The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History

This book, which is called “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,” arrives amid a prolonged debate over the version of the project we published two years ago.

The 1619 Project book turns history into politics - The Washington Post

But then, in an essay this month titled “The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History,” Silverstein wrote that the date indeed “could ...

The New York Times' Jake Silverstein concocts “a new origin story ...

Attempting to enlist Quarles, who died in 1996, Silverstein writes that the historian's “work posed profound questions about the traditional ...

The 1619 Project - Gleeson Library - University of San Francisco

The goal of The 1619 Project is to reframe American history by making explicit how slavery is the foundation on which the United States of America is built.

The 1619 Project - Wikipedia

The project has become a leading subject of the American history wars, receiving criticism from historians, both from the political left and the right, who ...

'1619 Project' journalist says Black people shouldn't be an ... - NPR

Originally published in 2019 as a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, the project reframed the American story through the lens of ...

The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts - The Atlantic

A dispute between a small group of scholars and the authors of The New York Times Magazine's issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement.

The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History [nytimes.com]

That project made a bold claim, which remains the central idea of the book: that the moment in August 1619 when the first enslaved Africans ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones - The New York Times

The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History ... Fights over how we tell our national story go back more than a century — and have a great deal to teach ...

1619 Again: Revisiting the Project's Troubled Past by Peter Wood

I trust Robert Woodson's "1776 Project" as a far more reliable effort to recover and integrate the African-American past into American history.

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

Over the past half-century, important foundational work on the history and legacy of slavery has been done by a multiracial group of scholars ...

The 1619 Project still has historians fighting. - Slate Magazine

And many had been objecting for a long time to what seemed the complacency, at best, of Wilentz, Wood, and others regarding the history of ...

The 1619 Project - Hulu Press

1 bestselling “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” and examine how the legacy of slavery shapes different aspects of contemporary American life. The series, ...

The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History | The New Yorker

The ambitious Times endeavor, now in book form, reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the ...

How the 1619 Project Distorted History - Jacobin

The New York Times 's 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery and racism in the United States.

The 1619 Project and the long battle over U.S. history - Nieman Lab

“This book, which is called 'The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,' arrives amid a prolonged debate over the version of the project we ...

The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History

As its subtitle announces, the book aims to cultivate a "new origin story" of the United States where the turmoil and strife of the past are ...

Slavery and the American Revolution: A Historical Dialogue - YouTube

Was the American Revolution a fight to secure freedom for all or a fight to preserve bondage for some? Almost since the moment the first ...

An Evening with Nikole Hannah-Jones: Truth, History, and the 1619 ...

Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 Project, discussed the impact of her work on the public debate around America's history of slavery and its influence on ...

The 1619 Project - Pulitzer Center

American history cannot be told truthfully without a clear vision of how inhuman and immoral the treatment of black Americans has been. By ...