1619 Project 
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SOURCE: Quad City Times
2/14/2021
Editorial: Leave History to the Historians
An Iowa editorial board says that the flaws of the 1619 Project are nothing in comparison to the efforts of state legislators to interfere in the content of history education.
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SOURCE: The Root
2/6/2021
Students Protest Firing of Arkansas Teacher Who Called Lawmakers Out Over 1619 Project Curriculum
"Your recent bill is an appalling attempt to FURTHER whitewash history. It is absolutely nothing less than an attempt to codify white supremacy in Arkansas schools. Stay the f*** out of my curriculum," teacher Josh Depner wrote.
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SOURCE: Education Week
2/3/2021
Lawmakers Push to Ban ‘1619 Project’ From Schools
"Attempts to ban the materials 'stem from a really unfortunate misreading of the project itself,' said Mark Schulte, the Pulitzer Center’s education director. The lessons aren’t designed to convince students to believe certain ideas, but rather to encourage them to question, he said."
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1/25/2021
Against the Consensus Approach to History
by William Hogeland
Current debates about the historiography of slavery and the founding mistake the authority claimed by past generations of historians for scholarly integrity instead of recognizing that writing history has always been a political act (that often works to conceal its politics).
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SOURCE: MSNBC
1/20/2021
The Trump Administration's Thinly-Veiled Rebuke of 'The 1619 Project' is a Sloppy, Racist Mess
by Kevin M. Kruse
The Commission report selectively quotes from Martin Luther King and ignores massive white resistance to paint a picture of the Civil Rights movement as a national consensus, in order to bash contemporary demands for racial justice.
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12/20/2020
Defending the 1619 Project in the Context of History Education Today
by Alan J. Singer
Critics of the 1619 project may dispute particular claims or interpretations, but an understanding of the minimal attention devoted to slavery and its legacies in secondary school curricula shows that the project is badly needed.
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SOURCE: The Hill
11/18/2020
Tom Cotton Attacks "Revisionist History" of Thanksgiving on Senate Floor
The Arkansas Senator warned that the "politically correct editors" of the New York Times are coming for Thanksgiving.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
10/28/2020
The 1619 Project and Uses and Abuses of History
by Stephen Mintz
By focusing on narrow questions of fact and interpretive claims in the project in an effort to discredit it, critics of the 1619 Project have mostly failed to engage with big questions about how to do history.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/19/2020
1619, Revisited
by Nicholas Guyatt
Argument isn’t an obstacle to the work of historians; it is the work of historians. Public interest in 1619 has suggested something truly profound: that Americans have the capacity to think differently about their history.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/16/2020
On Recent Criticism of The 1619 Project
by Jake Silverstein
Critics of the 1619 Project have identified changes and edits to the text of Nikole Hannah-Jones's article, which they claim were made surreptitiously to conceal errors. Editor Jake Silverstein addresses those criticisms.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/13/2020
How the 1619 Project took over 2020
Interviewing project lead Nikole Hannah-Jones and numerous supporters and detractors, Sarah Ellison explores why the 1619 project, more than a year after its publication, is still making people argue about history.
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SOURCE: National Association of Scholars
10/6/2020
National Association of Scholars: Pulitzer Board Must Revoke Nikole Hannah-Jones' Prize
The advocacy organization National Association of Scholars calls for the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind its award to Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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SOURCE: WBUR
10/1/2020
How We Teach US History
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Massachusetts History Teacher of the Year N'Dia Riegler, and Director of Literacy and Humanities for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education discuss how to teach the difficult and conflict-ridden aspects of the national past.
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SOURCE: CNN
9/21/2020
Why President Trump is Targeting the 1619 Project
by Julian Zelizer
"There is nothing unpatriotic about a clear-eyed view of our nation's past. Indeed, understanding the problems and failures at the center of our nation is to take our history seriously."
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SOURCE: Politico
9/21/2020
What Trump is Missing About American History
by Leslie M. Harris and Karin Wulf
"Journalists and politicians are examples of two groups that are differently but equally susceptible to a desire for clarity and simplicity about the historical past. But the past is rarely clear and was never simple."
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9/17/2020
The "1776 Commission" Releases its Report
The report of the 1776 commission, released on Martin Luther King Day, came in for sharp criticism from historians, not least for its treatment of racism in US history.
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SOURCE: National Review
9/16/2020
Black Leaders Launch ‘1776 Unites’ High School Curriculum
An American Enterprise Institute fellow and a Black civil rights veteran have launched a "1776 Unites" curriculum as a challenge to the "1619 Project,"
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SOURCE: TIME
https://time.com/5889051/history-curriculum-politi
Trump's Threat to Pull Funding From Schools Over How They Teach Slavery Is Part of a Long History of Politicizing American History Class
by Olivia Waxman
"The teaching of U.S. History in public schools has always been political, and such concerns about whether curricula are “anti-American” are par for the course in moments of turmoil."
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SOURCE: Forbes
9/6/2020
Call Trump’s Attacks On The 1619 Project What They Are — Censorship of American History
The 1619 Project has been published for a year. Why, now, is Donald Trump making a political issue over its use in schools? The author says it's not about teaching history but shaping national propaganda.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
8/3/2020
What Tom Cotton Gets So Wrong About Slavery and the Constitution
by Sean Wilentz
"I have fundamental publicized objections to the project, but these in no way mitigate Cotton’s serious misrepresentations of the historical record for evident political gain."
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