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Search Results for: 1619 Project

Are the 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission really that different?

John Fea   |  December 21, 2023

I just read Zine Magubane’s review of Kenan Malik’s Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy at Catalyst. Malik argues that both the 1619 Project and Donald Trump’s “1776 Commission” fail to recognize the importance […]

Responding to the critics of my piece “Kid Gloves” (1619 Project)

John Fea   |  July 16, 2023

It looks like my feature we published on Friday at Current received some attention on Twitter. I’m glad people are reading it and, for the most part, taking it seriously. For the record, here is everything I have written at […]

Historian Barbara Fields on the 1619 Project

John Fea   |  April 27, 2023

Here is the Columbia University historian on how to think historically about 17th-century Virginia:

Steven Mintz: “I find it stunning that the World Socialist Web Site remains the place to turn if one truly wants to understand…the controversies surrounding ‘The 1619 Project.'”

John Fea   |  February 7, 2023

At his blog at Insider Higher Ed, University of Texas American historian Steven Mintz offers a brief review of both the AP African American Studies course and the American Historical Review‘s forum on the 1619 Project. His take on AP […]

Stanford’s Jack Rakove is the latest historian to critique the 1619 Project

John Fea   |  January 24, 2022

Tom Mackaman of the World Socialist Web Site is back with another interview. Here is a taste of his conversation with Stanford’s Jack Rakove: TM: You mentioned it before, and we will need to turn to the 1619 Project, whose […]

The latest Christian Right critique of the 1619 Project is full of problems. Let’s break it down.

John Fea   |  January 16, 2022

Jerry Newcombe is a writer and local Florida radio host who comes out of the D. James Kennedy (Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church of Ft. Lauderdale) wing of conservative evangelicals. He is also the president of a Christian nationalist historical organization […]

James Oakes on what the 1619 Project gets wrong

John Fea   |  January 14, 2022

City University of New York (CUNY) historian James Oakes was one of the early critics of the 1619 Project. He was part of the group of historians that agreed to an interview with historian Tom Mackaman at the World Socialist […]

The 1619 Project and the latest battle over teaching history

John Fea   |  November 9, 2021

Jake Silverstein, the editor of The New York Times Magazine, has published a helpful 8100-world piece on the origins of the 1619 Project and how it has triggered the latest debate over the teaching of American history in schools. Here […]

Biden administration backs off the 1619 Project and other anti-racist literature and language in its new American history and Civics grant program

John Fea   |  July 26, 2021

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 […]

Why Socialists Oppose The New York Times’ 1619 Project

Thomas Mackaman   |  June 4, 2021

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?

John Fea   |  May 13, 2021

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

John Fea   |  May 1, 2021

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

John Fea   |  April 30, 2021

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 […]

Kid Gloves

John Fea   |  July 14, 2023

If the 1619 Project is bad history why won’t more historians say so?

Jim Grossman reflects on his leadership of the American Historical Association

John Fea   |  January 10, 2025

After fifteen years at the helm of the most important historical association in the world, Jim Grossman is stepping aside. Here is Ryan Quinn at Inside Higher Ed: A chapter of history is closing: Jim Grossman is retiring after 15 […]

Thomas Chatterton Williams: “It wasn’t sexism and racism alone”

John Fea   |  November 8, 2024

Here is a taste of Williams‘s piece at The Atlantic: “What the Left Keeps Getting Wrong“: Yet I fear that far too many elite Democrats will direct their ire and scrutiny outward, and dismiss the returns as the result of […]

Ben Sasse: “Harvard, Princeton, and Yale were originally founded as seminaries. They are seminaries once again.” 

John Fea   |  December 15, 2023

While I probably wouldn’t call early Harvard, Princeton, and Yale “seminaries,” I take Ben Sasse‘s point. As some of you recall, Sasse left the United States Senate earlier this year and became president of the University of Florida. Here is […]

Chad Connelly: Those who criticize David Barton do not possess true Christian wisdom and “hate freedom.”

John Fea   |  December 4, 2023

Over at Politico, Tim Alberta, author of the new book The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals In An Age of Extremism has published an excerpt from his book exposing “bogus historians” Chad Connelly and David Barton. Here […]

Episode 120: “Popular Historians in Post-War America”

John Fea   |  October 16, 2023

Should professional historians write for the general public? If so, who is the “public” they are trying to reach? And when historians do write for the public how do they manage to make their work readable and accessible without sacrificing […]

What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  July 21, 2023

Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:

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