1619 Project

A conversation about changing the American story.

When historians concede to discuss the past with the terms of the present, they abandon the skill set that makes them historians.

"History​ is written by the victors, but diligent and continual silencing is required to maintain its claims on the present and future."

Historian Barbara J. Fields explains why you can't understand what happened in 1619 without understanding what happened in 1607.

Exponentially more enslaved Africans were forced to the lands that now make up Latin America rather than the United States. Where is their story?

Historian Daryl Scott weighs in on the 1619 Project and the "possibility that we rend ourselves on the question of race."

The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told.

The 1619 Project and contested foundings.

Some personal reflections from American Historical Association president James H. Sweet on the recent wave of "divisive concepts" laws.

The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.

Reflections on the latest public debate between historians about the causes of the American Revolution.

The idea of history’s judgment was, and remains, seductive. Yet this notion cannot withstand scrutiny, as Joan Wallach Scott’s On the Judgment of History shows.

Divisive concepts, critical race theory, and more in 2021.

The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is a refusal to acknowledge that American schools have always taught a white-centric view of U.S. history.

The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.

The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.

Why are politics so consumed with the past?

Jennifer L. Morgan on the intersectionality of enslaved women and common misunderstandings about slavery.

Most Black Tulsans in 1921 were working class. But these days, it seems like the fate of those few blocks in and around “Black Wall Street” is all that matters.

Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress "dangerous" ideas.