#1619project

I'm really over defending #1619Project but I must correct some glaring inaccuracies in this @politico piece. 1) The project does not argue "our democracy" was founded in 1619. 2) The

This was excellent and critical work that aligns so much with what we were trying to do with the #1619Project. Just as we are still living with the legacy of

I've said this before, but here's my (long) basic take on the historiographic politics of the American Revolution and the #1619Project. I should note before I start that I am

1/ Those bashing #1619project aren't quibbling over details, about which solid historians disagree. They are attacking the very notion (inarguable among reasonable people) of white supremacy's centrality to the nation's

The #1619Project published online today and it is my profound hope that we will reframe for our readers the way we understand our nation, the legacy of slavery, and most

The Pulitzer Prize winning #1619Project. Phase II commences with the toppling of slave owner George Washington.Let’s skip to the end shall we: what are you going to do with all

Sherrilyn Ifill

The attack on CRT is vindication for those white men who felt forever displaced & destabilized in the 80s & early 90s in the legal academy by CRT’s exposure of

BiscottiPippen1

A quote from #BlackIsKing I haven’t been able to stop thinking about:“No more white angels, only albinos.” I see so many parallels between #1619Project and #BlackIsKing . @nhannahjones re-writes

It’s hard to believe, but one year ago today we launched the #1619project. When I pitched it, my editors asked what I hoped for the project. I said simply: That

1/ I see a lot of organizations & people highlighting the work of, or "standing with black ppl" in these hard times. Respectfully, if now is when you think to

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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At the WH conference on American history today, Allen Guelzo warns against the imagined dangers of the @ZinnEdProject. It’s a glimpse into what Trump & Co are doing w/ the

MINI-THREAD: Since the #1619Project creators are still insisting that the deleted line was not an "official" part of the project, here are documented instances where the @NYTimes published its claim

The framing of the #1619Project remains the same today as when we published in Aug. 2019: We acknowledged 1776 as this nation's official founding but asked readers to imagine what

Joshua D. Rothman

A short thread of threads from the last few days, on the #1619Project, the ongoing reaction, and how we think about American history. . . https://twitter.com/kawulf/status/1208807766170701824?s=21 https://twitter.com/kawulf/status/1208807766170701824

I guess I have to be the one to say it!This is going to sound racist, it's not meant to be, but I can't help the way this insurrection started.We

In 1793 the U.S. Congress enacted their first fugitive slave law which required every state to forcibly return slaves who had escaped from other states to their owners. It included