1619 Project

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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
  

  Trump's "History Conference" Attacks Critical History

  Trump attempted to make school history curriculum a culture war front and pledged to establish a "1776 Commission" to ensure patriotic history education. CONTENT WARNING: Some historians responded with swear words.

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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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• SOURCE: HBO
  8/2/2020
  

  US History: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

  John Oliver takes a look at how the history of race in America is taught in schools, how we can make those teachings more accurate, and why it’s in everyone's best interest to understand the most realistic version of the past.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/30/2020
  

  Tom Cotton Wants To Save American History. But He Gets It All Wrong.

  by Malinda Maynor Lowery

  Senator Cotton’s remarks and his proposal to revise history obscure the violence, death and displacement that slavery caused in both Black and Indigenous communities.

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• SOURCE: Ricochet
  7/24/2020
  

  Sean Wilentz: On the Importance of Studying and Debating American History (Podcast)

  Wilentz argues that understanding America’s past—from the inspiring to the shameful—is vital for what he calls informed citizenship.

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• SOURCE: Historicly
  7/27/2020
  

  Tom Cotton's Slave-Owning Ancestors

  If we dig into records of slave ownership, we can see that Tom Cotton’s family owned slaves.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  

  Sen. Tom Cotton Calls Slavery Nation’s ‘Necessary Evil’ In Shocking Interview

  Slavery “was the necessary evil upon which the union was built,” the Arkansas senator said in an interview.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/27/2020
  

  Sen. Tom Cotton Wants to Take ‘The 1619 Project’ out of Classrooms. His Efforts Have Kept it in the Spotlight

  Senator Cotton's comments ignited a war of words on social media Sunday; historians including John Kaminski and Joshua D. Rothman weigh in.