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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

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/stschrader1/status/1220887790621286400?s=21

https://twitter.com/thetattooedprof/status/1222644702287056896?s=21 https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1222644702287056896

https://twitter.com/thetattooedprof/status/1222644702287056896?s=21

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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