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
https://twitter.com/jeff__ostler/status/1209285654665760768?s=21 https://twitter.com/Jeff__Ostler/status/1209285654665760768
https://twitter.com/sethcotlar/status/1209257790847340545?s=21 https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1209257790847340545
https://twitter.com/dribram/status/1208836124145307649?s=21 https://twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1208836124145307649
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1209322535256547331?s=21 https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1209322535256547331
https://twitter.com/thetattooedprof/status/1210583647708950528?s=21 https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1210583647708950528
https://twitter.com/nicholasguyatt/status/1208440030492053505?s=21 https://twitter.com/NicholasGuyatt/status/1208440030492053505
https://twitter.com/agordonreed/status/1212048168621428738?s=20
https://twitter.com/erin_bartram/status/1212387530743652352?s=21 https://twitter.com/erin_bartram/status/1212387530743652352
https://twitter.com/charlespostel/status/1214302257111396352?s=21 https://twitter.com/CharlesPostel/status/1214302257111396352
https://twitter.com/jmjafrx/status/1214249865011699714?s=20
https://twitter.com/annebailey63/status/1215267467909632000?s=20
https://twitter.com/BlkPerspectives/status/1217062690134331394?s=20
https://twitter.com/wcaleb/status/1220381392145723392?s=20
From @jmadelman, a smart contextual corrective to the latest critique of the #1619Project, about how early newspapers actually worked. https://earlyamericanists.com/2020/01/23/the-1619-project-and-the-work-of-the-historian/
The 1619 Project and the Work of the Historian

Joseph M. Adelman explores how the craft of historical research can help us understand the interpretive debates about the 1619 Project and the American Revolution.

https://earlyamericanists.com/2020/01/23/the-1619-project-and-the-work-of-the-historian/
https://twitter.com/Adam_Thomas_PhD/status/1220636158293659648?s=20
"Racism is a product as well as a cause of our politics, starting with the American Revolution, and we should stop blaming those who wish to explain its persistence." https://bostonreview.net/race-politics/david-waldstreicher-hidden-stakes-1619-controversy
The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Seeking to discredit those who wish to explain the persistence of racism, critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project insist the facts don’t support its proslavery reading of the American

https://bostonreview.net/race-politics/david-waldstreicher-hidden-stakes-1619-controversy
https://twitter.com/stschrader1/status/1220887790621286400?s=21 https://twitter.com/stschrader1/status/1220887790621286400
https://twitter.com/thetattooedprof/status/1222644702287056896?s=21 https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1222644702287056896
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248
Opinion | I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248
“We stand behind the basic point, which is that among the various motivations that drove the patriots toward independence was a concern that the British would seek or were already seeking to disrupt the entrenched system of American slavery.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the-1619-project.html
An Update to The 1619 Project

Today we are making a clarification to a passage in an essay from The 1619 Project that has sparked a great deal of online debate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the-1619-project.html
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