1619 Project

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  8/3/2020
  

  What Tom Cotton Gets So Wrong About Slavery and the Constitution

  by Sean Wilentz

  "I have fundamental publicized objections to the project, but these in no way mitigate Cotton’s serious misrepresentations of the historical record for evident political gain."

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• SOURCE: HBO
  8/2/2020
  

  US History: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

  John Oliver takes a look at how the history of race in America is taught in schools, how we can make those teachings more accurate, and why it’s in everyone's best interest to understand the most realistic version of the past.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/30/2020
  

  Tom Cotton Wants To Save American History. But He Gets It All Wrong.

  by Malinda Maynor Lowery

  Senator Cotton’s remarks and his proposal to revise history obscure the violence, death and displacement that slavery caused in both Black and Indigenous communities.

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• SOURCE: Ricochet
  7/24/2020
  

  Sean Wilentz: On the Importance of Studying and Debating American History (Podcast)

  Wilentz argues that understanding America’s past—from the inspiring to the shameful—is vital for what he calls informed citizenship.

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• SOURCE: Historicly
  7/27/2020
  

  Tom Cotton's Slave-Owning Ancestors

  If we dig into records of slave ownership, we can see that Tom Cotton’s family owned slaves.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  

  Sen. Tom Cotton Calls Slavery Nation’s ‘Necessary Evil’ In Shocking Interview

  Slavery “was the necessary evil upon which the union was built,” the Arkansas senator said in an interview.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/27/2020
  

  Sen. Tom Cotton Wants to Take ‘The 1619 Project’ out of Classrooms. His Efforts Have Kept it in the Spotlight

  Senator Cotton's comments ignited a war of words on social media Sunday; historians including John Kaminski and Joshua D. Rothman weigh in. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/8/2020
  

  ‘The 1619 Project’ Tells a False Story About Capitalism, Too

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  Allen Guelzo argues that pro-slavery southerners portrayed their society as opposed to growing industrial capitalism, not the integral part of it that some recent historians have claimed. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/6/2020
  

  The ‘1619 Project’ is Filled with Slovenliness and Ideological Ax-Grinding

  Conservative columnist George Will contends that the 1619 Project undermines trust in journalism by taking on a political project.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  5/5/2020
  

  'Not the Way to do History': Princeton University Historian Blasts 1619 Project as 'Historical Sloppiness' Unworthy of Pulitzer

  Allen Guelzo has been a major critic of the New York Times's "1619 Project" and objects to the projects central essay winning the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/4/2020
  

  The New York Times and the Anchorage Daily News Win Pulitzer Prizes

  The award for commentary went to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her centerpiece essay for the Times's much-discussed 1619 project. 

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  3/11/2020
  

  The New York Times Backs-Off a Controversial Claim in its 1619 Project

  by John Fea

  The New York Times Magazine offers some nuance. It appears that a recent panel featuring Alan Taylor, Annette Gordon-Reed, and others had something to do with this.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  3/3/2020
  

  The 1619 Project’s outrageous, lying slander of Abe Lincoln

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  Humanities scholar Allen C. Guelzo defends Lincoln in the face of The 1619 Project's scrutiny.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/5/2020
  

  What the 1619 Project Really Means

  by Timothy Messer-Kruse

  Professor Timothy Messer-Kruse argues that critics from both ends of the political spectrum have misunderstood the project.

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• SOURCE: Renegade South
  2/30/20
  

  Victoria Bynum Writes Response to Alex Lichtenstein's Article on the 1619 Project

  by Victoria Bynum

  Part of the ongoing historical debate. 

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• 2/9/20
  

  Re-Animating the 1619 Project: Teachable Moments Not Turf Wars

  by James Brewer Stewart

  Those of us who value the 1619 Project can reclaim our “teachable moment” by excavating beneath the heated rhetoric. There we will discover that the journalists and the historians embrace conflicting but equally valuable historical truths regarding slavery’s power to shape our nations past and present.

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• 2/9/20
  

  The 1619 Project Debate with History of Slavery in New York City

  by Alan Singer

  Slavery and its legacies in New York City. 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Princetonian
  2/6/20
  

  The Daily Princetonian Publishes Article Summarizing Ongoing 1619 Project Debate

  A summary of what different historians have said and how others have responded. 

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• SOURCE: World Socialist Web Site
  1/31/20
  

  World Socialist Web Site Publishes A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project

  by David North and Tom Mackaman

  "The fact that the 1619 Project is now being editorially defended in the AHR, despite the withering criticisms of highly respected professional historians, is a very troubling development," its authors claim. 

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Investigations
  Accessed 1/20/20
  

  NY Times '1619 Project' Already Shaping Schoolkids' Minds

  Since its publication in August, the 1619 Project has been adopted in more than 3,500 classrooms in all 50 states.