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The Revolutions
Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.
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Future Of America's Past
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March 16, 2020
I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.
The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.
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Leslie M. Harris
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Politico Magazine
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March 6, 2020
A Matter of Facts
The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.
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Sean Wilentz
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The Atlantic
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January 22, 2020
Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide
Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.
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Greg Grandin
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The Nation
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January 20, 2020
Assassination as Cure: Disease Metaphors and Foreign Policy
The poorly crafted disease metaphor often accompanies a bad outcome.
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Sarah Swedberg
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Nursing Clio
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January 13, 2020
American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’
What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.
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Sean Wilentz
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New York Review of Books
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November 19, 2019
The American Founders Made Sure the President Could Never Suspend Congress
Boris Johnson is suspending Parliament for five weeks. That couldn't happen in the United States.
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Eliga Gould
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The Conversation
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September 3, 2019
It Isn’t Independence Day For Everyone
If the British had won the Revolutionary War, things might be very different for Native Americans.
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Steve Teare
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The Nib
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July 4, 2019
In Defense of the American Revolution
1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.
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Tom Cutterham
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Jacobin
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July 4, 2019
America's 100 Other Declarations of Independence
The document we celebrate today wasn't just the work of Thomas Jefferson's individual genius. Everyone was doing it.
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David Greenberg
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Politico Magazine
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July 4, 2017
From Boston's Resistance to an American Revolution
How a Boston rebellion became an American Revolution is a story too seldom told because it is one we take for granted.
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Mark Boonshoft
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New York Public Library
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February 28, 2017
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Revolutionary Spirit
On the widespread boycotts of British-made goods in the American Colonies.
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BackStory
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December 15, 2016
The Accidental Patriots
Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.
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Caitlin Fitz
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The Atlantic
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December 1, 2016
The Hamilton Cult
Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?
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Robert Sullivan
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Harper’s
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October 1, 2016
Not Our Independence Day
The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.
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William Hogeland
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Jonah Walters
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Jacobin
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July 4, 2016
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Paying Up: A History of Taxation
From the Stamp Act of 1765 to the Tea Party Movement, how have – and haven't – American attitudes about taxes changed over time?
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BackStory
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April 12, 2013
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The Dangerous Afterlives of Lexington and Concord
How a myth about farmers taking on the British has fueled more than two centuries of exclusionary nationalism.
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Eran A. Zelnik
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HNN
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April 15, 2025
‘King Hancock’ Review: The Biggest Name in Boston
More than an artful calligrapher, John Hancock forswore the austerity of his fellow Bostonians, and their extremism.
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William Anthony Hay
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The Wall Street Journal
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October 6, 2023
Inventing American Constitutionalism
On "Power and Liberty," a condensed version of Gordon Wood's entire sweep of scholarship about constitutionalism.
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Gordon S. Wood
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Brian A. Smith
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Law & Liberty
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March 10, 2023
The Long American Counter-Revolution
Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
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David Waldstreicher
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Boston Review
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December 8, 2022
The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History
Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.
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Phillip W. Magness
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Reason
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March 29, 2022
The NYT’s Jake Silverstein Concocts “a New Origin Story” for the 1619 Project
The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”
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Tom Mackaman
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World Socialist Web Site
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November 24, 2021
The Changing Same of U.S. History
Like the 1619 Project, two new books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.
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David Waldstreicher
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Boston Review
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November 10, 2021
The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Spirit of (19)76
The Left once tried to own the legacy of America’s Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.
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Jason Tebbe
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Tropics of Meta
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July 26, 2021
Why the History of the Vast Early America Matters Today
There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.
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Karin Wulf
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Aeon
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July 15, 2021
The Patriot Slave
The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.
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Farah Peterson
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The American Scholar
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June 2, 2020
Gossip, Sex, and Redcoats: On the Build-Up to the Boston Massacre
Don't let anyone tell you revolutionary history is boring.
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Serena Zabin
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Literary Hub
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February 20, 2020
Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776
The United States didn't begin in 1619.
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Wilfred Reilly
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Quillette
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February 17, 2020
1619 and All That
The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.
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Alex Lichtenstein
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American Historical Review
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February 3, 2020
The 1619 Project and the Work of the Historian
Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.
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Joseph M. Adelman
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The Junto
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January 23, 2020
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