Back in April we wrote about the Department of Education “priorities” for its new American History and Civics grant program. The call for proposals expressed an interest in programs that stressed the “importance of including, in the teaching learning of […]
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Why Socialists Oppose The New York Times’ 1619 Project
Historical falsification has historical effects—effects the cause of equality can hardly afford
What did anti-1619 Project U.S. senators learn about race from their school textbooks?
The Root just published excerpts of U.S. history textbooks used in schools attended by the thirty-eight Republican senators, including majority leader Mitch McConnell, who recently signed a letter criticizing the New York Times 1619 Project and critical race theory. Here […]
Nikole Hannah-Jones of 1619 Project fame joins the faculty of the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill
Here is the Associated Press: Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s journalism school in July as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. Hannah-Jones, who covers […]
Mitch McConnell petitions Education Secretary to remove the 1619 Project from federal grant programs
The 1619 Project is in the news again. Here is Ryan Nobles at CNN: In a letter obtained by CNN, the Republican leader asks Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to abandon curriculum in American schools that McConnell argues tells a revisionist history of America’s […]
World Socialist Web Site publishes its critique of the 1619 Project
Learn more about David North and Thomas Mackaman’s edited collection, The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History. The book includes essays or interviews with Victoria Bynum, James McPherson, James Oakes, Gordon Wood, Adolph Reed Jr., […]
The 1619 Project on “Facing the Issues”
Here is my conversation with Sam Chen of WBPH, a local religious television station broadcasting in eastern Pennsylvania.
Editor of *The New York Times Magazines* addresses recent criticisms of the 1619 Project
You can find all of our posts on the 1619 Project here. Here is Jake Silverstein, editor of The New York Times Magazine: Most of the questions around our display language have centered on variations on a single phrase. In […]
A short history of the 1619 Project
Over at The Washington Post, Sarah Ellison chronicles the ways The New York Times‘s 1619 Project has influenced American politics in 2020. Here is a taste: Sean Wilentz remembers the Sunday morning in August when he walked down his driveway to […]
Is the 1619 Project backing-off some of its more problematic claims about the American founding?
It sure seems that way. Here is Tom Mackaman and David North at World Socialist Web Site: The New York Times, without announcement or explanation, has abandoned the central claim of the 1619 Project: that 1619, the year the first slaves […]
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton opposes “cancel culture.” Unless, of course, it is the 1619 Project
I just learned today that Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is trying to pass legislation to prohibit schools from using federal funds to teach the New York Times‘s 1619 Project. (If you are unfamiliar with the 1619 Project, read our coverage here. […]
Allen Guelzo Criticizes the 1619 Project
The New York Times 1619 Project just received a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Listen to Allen Guelzo’s critique of the project in an interview with the Heritage Foundation. If you like the 1619 Project, you may want to sit down […]
Andrew Bacevich on the 1619 Project
Here is a taste of Bacevich‘s take: …That annoyance notwithstanding, there is actually more afoot here than journalists usurping prerogatives traditionally reserved for highly trained scholars. While the architects of the 1619 Project may be making claims that go beyond […]
The 1619 Project Backs-Off a Controversial Claim. World Socialist Website Responds
Recently, The New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein issued a statement to clarify a passage in an essay from The 1619 Project. (See our post here). The passage under consideration, which came from project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay, argued […]
*The New York Times* Backs-Off a Controversial Claim in its 1619 Project
The New York Times Magazine offers some nuance. It appears that a recent panel featuring Alan Taylor, Annette Gordon-Reed, and others had something to do with this. Watch it here: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLm8dMAqxE&w=560&h=315] A taste: Today we are making a clarification to […]
Leslie Harris Weighs-In on the 1619 Project
Leslie Harris, a professor of history at Northwestern University, fact-checked The New York Times 1619 Project. Here is what she said in a recent piece at Politico: On August 19 of last year I listened in stunned silence as Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter […]
Conservative African American Intellectuals Respond to *The New York Times* 1619 Project
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is calling attention to Episode 63 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. This is our interview with Kings College (PA) history professor Thomas Mackaman, a critic of The New York Times Magazine’s […]
Episode 63: The 1619 Project
In August 2019, The New York Times Magazine published The 1619 Project, an attempt to reframe American history by “placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.” American historians have praised […]
What Can We Learn from the 1619 Project?
Read all our posts on The New York Times 1619 Project here. Historian James Brewer Stewart has some good thoughts. Here is a taste of his piece at History News Network: But here’s what’s most important. Those of us who value […]
*World Socialist Web Site* Responds to the Editor of the *American Historical Review* on the 1619 Project
Here is David North and Tom Mackaman: On January 23, Alex Lichtenstein, editor of the American Historical Review (AHR), posted an online statement defending the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project against criticism from the World Socialist Web Site and several eminent historians. The editorial, […]