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The 1619 Project

A New Origin Story

2021

One World

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Comparison

History Bright and Dark

Americans have often been politically divided. But have the divisions over how we recount our history ever been so deep?

by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on May 2, 2023
Argument

Is History History? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present

When historians concede to discuss the past with the terms of the present, they abandon the skill set that makes them historians.

by James H. Sweet via Perspectives on History on August 17, 2022
Book Review

Cuba & the US: Necessary Mirrors

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

by Geraldo Cadava via Public Books on April 13, 2022
Book Review

The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History

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

by Phillip W. Magness via Reason on March 29, 2022
Book Review

What the 1619 Project Means

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.

by Helen Andrews via First Things on January 23, 2022
Book Review

The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History

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

by Lauren Michele Jackson via The New Yorker on December 8, 2021
Argument

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.”

by Tom Mackaman via World Socialist Web Site on November 24, 2021

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The 1619 Project

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

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History Bright and Dark

Is History History? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present

Cuba & the US: Necessary Mirrors

The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History

What the 1619 Project Means

The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History

The NYT’s Jake Silverstein Concocts “a New Origin Story” for the 1619 Project

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The Right Side of History

We Must Burn Them: Against the Origin Story