1619 Project

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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.

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• SOURCE: American Historical Review
  1/23/20
  

  1619 and All That

  by Alex Lichtenstein

  "What is odd about the letter is that it implies that the singular problem with the 1619 Project is that journalists are practicing history without a license."

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• 1/26/20
  

  1,056 Feet: Why I Needed the 1619 Project Growing Up

  by Derek Litvak

  The 1619 Project is not interested in retelling America’s founding story. It seeks to forge a new one. The people who contributed to this effort know full well those like myself, who grew up in the drainage ditches of America, in the long shadow of a bright star, need to hear this history. Demands to “stick to the facts” often sideline or silence our story. 

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• 1/26/20
  

  Twelve Scholars Critique the 1619 Project and the New York Times Magazine Editor Responds

  Scholars composed a letter to The New Times Magazine concerning 'The 1619 Project.' The NYTM editor, Jake Silverstein, responded but the NYTM declined to publish the letter and his response. The scholars created a reply and Silverstein had no objection to publishing the exchange in another venue. It is published here.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/22/20
  

  A Matter of Facts

  by Sean Wilentz

  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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• SOURCE: Cambridge Blog
  1/8/20
  

  The 1619 Project and Bringing History to the People

  by Anne C. Bailey

  From my time as an undergraduate till my present position as a Professor of History at SUNY Binghamton, I have been frustrated that history seemed to belong to the few – the few who had made it their life’s work in the halls of academia, some of whom, as I was to learn, spoke more to each other than to the general public. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/14/20
  

  1619?

  by Sasha Turner

  What to the historian is 1619?

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• SOURCE: World Socialist Web Site
  1/15/20
  

  Clayborne Carson Interviewed by World Socialist Web Site on 1619 Project

  The profesor of history at Stanford University is the latest historian to be interviewed by the webiste about the 1619 Project.