Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nothing could be more toxic to our ongoing effort to build a multiracial democracy than to cast any race as a perennial hero or villain.

It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture war.

Exponentially more enslaved Africans were forced to the lands that now make up Latin America rather than the United States. Where is their story?

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

Some personal reflections from American Historical Association president James H. Sweet on the recent wave of "divisive concepts" laws.

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”

Inside the profession, the battle over the 1619 Project continues.

Historical perspective on school integration.

The White press helped destroy democracy in the South. Black journalists developed an activist tradition because they had to.

Black archivists, activists, and artists are fighting for justice and ethical remembrance — and reimagining the archive itself.

Academic freedom can help universities flourish, while political compromises can hold them back.

Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress "dangerous" ideas.

Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

Nikole Hannah-Jones gives the credit for ending quotas to civil rights reformers. The truth is a bit more complicated.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.

A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.

Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.