1619 Project

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• SOURCE: The State (SC)
  1/21/2022
  

  Legislators: Come See How I Use 1619 Project in My Classroom Before You Ban It

  by Woody Holton

  South Carolina's H. 4343 bill would impoverish the history education legislators claim to value. Could an invitation to observe how the demonized 1619 Project is used as a teaching tool change any minds? 

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• SOURCE: World Socialist Website
  1/20/2022
  

  Jack Rakove on Writing History, and the 1619 Project

  The Stanford historian emeritus gives a wide-ranging interview about his career, the American revolution, writing history, and his disagreements with the 1619 Project. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/19/2022
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Angered a Crowd with an MLK Day Speech. The Words Were MLK's

  “If you haven’t read, in entirety, his speeches, you’ve been miseducated and I hope that you will,” Hannah-Jones said on Twitter.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  12/8/2021
  

  The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History

  by Lauren Michele Jackson

  "In spite of all of the ugly evidence it has assembled, the 1619 Project ultimately seeks to inspire faith in the American project, just as any conventional social-studies curriculum would."

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  11/17/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Brian Lehrer Show

  With the release of the expanded book version of her 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones is back in the spotlight, for admirers and critics alike. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  11/10/2021
  

  The Changing Same of U.S. History

  by David Waldstreicher

  Historians have returned to the question of whether the Constitution is the problem or the solution with renewed vigor and high stakes. Those accusing ideological rivals of "doing politics, not history" are not innocent of the same charge. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/9/2021
  

  NYT Magazine's Silverstein: 1619 Is Part of Long Battle over Telling the Nation's Story

  by Jake Silverstein

  The continuing debate over the 1619 project shows that what we call "history" is inseparable from the process of historiography, which has never been free of bitter conflict and disagreement.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  10/30/2021
  

  The Historians are (Still) Fighting

  by Willam Hogeland

  Inside the recent Massachusetts Historical Society dustup between Gordon Wood and Woody Holton over the significance of slavery to the American Revolution, and what it means for the public perception of history. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/22/2021
  

  Debate and Controversy are Essential to History Education

  by Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow

  Claims that critical perspectives on US history are "divisive" or "disruptive" or teach students to "hate America" were wrong in the 1980s, and are being repeated today. Educators must be free to serve the needs of students to compare, evaluate and debate. 

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• 9/8/2021
  

  The Specter of Emancipation and the Road to Revolution: A Rejoinder to Richard Brown et. al.

  by Woody Holton

  Woody Holton responds to a recent open letter of criticism by six Revolutionary-era historians of his interpretation of the significance of slavery as a motivation for colonial independence. 

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• SOURCE: Medium
  9/7/2021
  

  Group of Historians Challenges Woody Holton's Interpretation of the Significance of Dunmore's Proclamation

  by Richard D. Brown et. al.

  A group of scholars argues that the famous 1775 decree by Lord Dunmore that enslaved Virginians who joined the British forces would be emancipated was a desperate act that followed, not precipitated, the drive of white Virginians toward independence. 

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• 8/8/2021
  

  Historians Can't Leave the Teaching of History to Politicians

  by Walter G. Moss

  As a historian of Russia, the author finds today's political interference with history teaching "like Soviet authorities forbidding Soviet history teachers to mention Trotsky’s role in bringing the 1917 communist revolution about."

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• SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  7/6/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement After Passing Up UNC for Howard University

  “I cannot imagine working at and advancing a school named for a man who lobbied against me, who used his wealth to influence the hires and ideology of the journalism school, who ignored my 20 years of journalism experience, all of my credentials, all of my work, because he believed that a project that centered Black Americans equaled the denigration of white Americans."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  6/30/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Finally Has Been Granted Tenure. But the Damage Is Already Done.

  It's uncertain that the Board of Trustees' decision to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones will lead her to join the University of North Carolina, and unlikely that the decision will erase the damage done by conservative interference in university governance. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/30/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Granted Tenure by UNC Trustees

  The vote was 9-4, after a number of protesters were removed from the room. It is not now known if Hannah-Jones will now accept the appointment at UNC. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/29/2021
  

  Finally: Tenure Vote for Hannah-Jones

  by Colleen Flaherty

  The Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will hold a special meeting Wednesday, reportedly to vote on tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/14/2021
  

  Professor: Why I Teach the Much-Debated 1619 Project — Despite its Flaws

  by John Duffy

  "Some critiques are intended to undermine if not cancel the 1619 Project. Yet the questions these criticisms raise about history, ideology and the legacies of slavery provide compelling reasons for teaching the project in schools and universities."

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• SOURCE: Harper's
  6/15/2021
  

  History as End: 1619, 1776, and the Politics of the Past

  by Matthew Karp

  "Current American inequalities, many liberals insist, must be addressed through encounters with the past. Programs of reform or redistribution, no matter how ambitious, can hope to succeed only after the country undergoes a profound “reckoning”—to use the key word of the day—with centuries of racial oppression."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/2/2021
  

  The Conservative Disinformation Campaign Against Nikole Hannah-Jones

  by Alice Marwick and Daniel Kreiss

  Two of Nikole Hannah-Jones's prospective UNC colleagues describe the pressure to prevent her being hired with tenure a part of a long pattern of conservative political activism using disinformation and distortion as weapons to control what is taught at universities.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  5/25/2021
  

  Trump Teams Up with Newt for New Contract With America

  If Newt Gingrich is to be belived, the Republicans hope to win back Congressional majorities by focusing on culture war grudges that involve historians –particularly targeting the teaching of critical perspectives on American racism.