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  2. How the 1619 Project Came Together

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  3. The Fatal Flaw of the 1619 Project Curriculum

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  5. The 1619 Project: A Critique

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  1. The 1619 Project

    The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism endeavor developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writers from The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine. It focused on subjects of slavery and the founding of the United States. The first publication from the project was in The New York Times Magazine of August 2019. The project developed an educational curriculum, supported by the Pulitzer Center ...

  2. What History Professors Really Think About 'The 1619 Project'

    Penn State University history professor Crystal Sanders believes it is essential to include Hannah-Jones's "1619 Project" in history courses. In her words, "I think it is important for ...

  3. An Update to The 1619 Project

    The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country's ...

  4. The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History

    The ambitious Times endeavor, now in book form, reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past. By Lauren Michele Jackson ...

  5. The 1619 Project

    The 1619 ProjectThe 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe ...

  6. Nikole Hannah-Jones' essay from 'The 1619 Project' wins ...

    This is the third time in the past four years (and fourth time overall) that Lopez has been a finalist in the commentary category. In any other year, both would be deserving of Pulitzer Prizes ...

  7. PDF Reading Guide for The 1619 Project Essays

    3 of 11 market crash of 1929, Wall Street, W.E.B. Du Bois Guiding Questions 1. How does the author describe capitalism in the U.S.? 2. How did slavery in the U.S. contribute to the development of the global

  8. 'The 1619 Project' Review: Nikole Hannah-Jones Reframes U.S. History

    In carrying this thesis forward, finding resonances throughout history and amplifying it across media, Hannah-Jones, who executive produces Hulu 's new "1619 Project" series and appears on ...

  9. Book Review: 'The 1619 Project'

    Originally published as a series in The New York Times Magazine and now revised and expanded as a book, "The 1619 Project," edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and ...

  10. DataSpace: The 1619 Project: Critiques and Defenses

    Following the publication of the New York Times's 1619 Project, critiques have been offered, and the Times and other outlets have offered a defense of the project. This file compiles a number of the most prominent works published in late 2019 and 2020. Includes essays: How we think about the term 'enslaved' matters / Nell Irvin Painter — The New York Times embraces a neo-Confederate world ...

  11. The 1619 Project

    The 1619 Project also endured a torrent of political criticism, mainly from right-wing politicians and commentators who considered it to be an effort to delegitimize the United States.In November 2020 Pres. Donald Trump, running for reelection at the time, went as far as to form an 18-member "1776 Commission" to produce a "dispositive rebuttal" of the project.

  12. The 1619 Project and The Importance of Historical Significance ...

    1619 Project is merely positing an argument. This historical argument is controversial within the academy and across the mass media landscape. Whether it makes a strong or a weak argument, the 1619 Project's thesis has much to offer students of history because it calls attention to historical argumentation, historical significance,

  13. Historians Clash With the 1619 Project

    This article was updated at 7:35 p.m. ET on December 23, 2019. W hen The New York Times Magazine published its 1619 Project in August, people lined up on the street in New York City to get copies ...

  14. The Danger of a Single Origin Story: The 1619 Project and Contested

    It seems fair to read HB 3979's prohibition against "requiring an understanding of the 1619 Project" as a sign that the activists behind such laws believe our teaching has swung too far in the latter direction. Implicit in this belief is a misguided assumption that because a teacher introduces a concept or thesis into a course, she ...

  15. The 1619 Project Debate: A Bibliography

    "How the 1619 Project Rehabilitates the 'King Cotton' Thesis" - In this essay, written for National Review, I examine the 1619 Project's heavy reliance on the NHC literature. A recurring theme of this literature is the unwitting rehabilitation of the "King Cotton" thesis — the notion that cotton occupied a commanding place in ...

  16. I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me

    The 1619 Project became one of the most talked-about journalistic achievements of the year—as it was intended to. The Times produced not just a magazine, but podcasts, a newspaper section, and ...

  17. The 1619 Project movie review (2023)

    The overarching thesis of "The 1619 Project" is that an amalgam of social issues affecting all Americans are the result of institutions born and bred from the enslavement of Black people. The antiquated systems and laws put in place may have changed context, but they did not change consequence. The government and corporations alike are able ...

  18. 1619 Project faces renewed criticism

    He said "the 1619 Project is a thesis in search of evidence, not the other way around." And he concluded that the 1619 Project "has given critics of The Times a gift." Stephens' column ...

  19. American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation

    The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country's ...

  20. Fact Checking the 1619 Project and Its Critics

    The New York Times' 1619 Project entered a new phase of historical assessment when the paper published a scathing criticism by five well-known historians of the American Revolution and Civil War eras. The group included previous critics James McPherson, Gordon Wood, Victoria Bynum, and James Oakes, along with a new signature from Sean Wilentz.

  21. How Nikole Hannah-Jones' 1619 Project ignited the critical race theory

    A blaze of conservative backlash ignited in 2019 when The New York Times published The 1619 Project and Nikole Hannah-Jones' opening commentary. Conservative critics fueled heated debates on the ...

  22. How the 1619 Project Rehabilitates the 'King Cotton' Thesis

    In the 1619 Project, Desmond uses another of Baptist's stats to attribute a 400 percent increase in the daily yield of cotton-picking between 1800 and 1860 to the systematization of whipping and ...

  23. 'The 1619 Project' creator is coming to Charlotte's HBCU ...

    The discussion will focus on "The 1619 Project," a collection of essays, poems, images, podcasts and other multimedia that recasts the narrative of the arrival of the first Africans to English ...