#1619

Joshua D. Rothman

rothmanistan

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

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

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

Phil Magness

PhilWMagness

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

Quincy Larson

ossia

Hi friends, in solidarity with those demanding justice and equality, I am going to stop tweeting about programming for the next few days.Instead, I'm going to leave you with this

Phil Magness

PhilWMagness

THREAD: The 1619 Project's creator is now claiming that the text they deleted from their website was not part of the "official" project, and was only "promotional material." Let's take

Conor Friedersdorf

conor64

Annoyingly, Nikole Hannah-Jones blocked me on Twitter today before posting more mischaracterizations of our recent disagreements about 1619 vs 1776. I'd hoped and intended to leave things at my last

Wesley Yang

wesyang

NYT editor Dean Baquet makes highly revealing statement about the 1619 Project: "The project fell fully within our standards as a news organization. "https://twitter.com/cliffordlevy/status/1316017794664652800 The declaration is t

QAnon

QPatriot17

Bill Wood in January 2012 states that the GAME IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!*Restart* 'People who were 10 in 1991 are now 30 and realize they are so much more than this'This sounds

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

arghavan_salles

A few months back, I got pulled over by a cop. I was nervous, of course. But I knew, in that moment, that I didn’t need to fear for my

Cortez Paige

cortezdpaige

The ugly truth is my ex called me a nigger and it hit me on a deeper level bc I realized I didn’t have a strong sense of identity. I’m

Phil Magness

PhilWMagness

As the person who broke the story about the NYT's textual deletions from the 1619 Project, I'll offer a few thoughts on this response from the paper in the thread

Dr. Mia Brett

QueenMab87

This thread is being passed around again and dismissed as "liberal bullshit" by certain mansplaining leftists (ahem Jeet Heer) so I thought I would provide a few more historiographical examples

Pedro L. Gonzalez

emeriticus

There are two ways to look at the administration's sudden taking up arms against anti-white things like the 1619 Project: this is a sincere thing that occurred to them just

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

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

Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall

lindstorian

Really bizarre that this happened on the same day that @TIME published the @obwax piece I consulted on about how this exact political anxiety is a predictable cycle in the

Zack Ford

ZackFord

Anybody else feeling like this would be a great time for the U.S. to be conquered? Like not a violent war, just a really peaceful takeover — more like an