1619 Project

To our surprise, most received a well-rounded education on the history of Black people in America. Just kidding.

Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

Nikole Hannah-Jones gives the credit for ending quotas to civil rights reformers. The truth is a bit more complicated.

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.

The president has blamed schools for spurring the unrest in several U.S. cities that has led in some cases to looting and fires.

The Great Emancipator's character and anti-slavery legacy has been questioned by Black Americans for over a century.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

The United States didn't begin in 1619.

Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.

Land acknowledgments amount to the hollow incantations of hollow people.

In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy.

A sweeping new history examines many untold stories of the American West in the late nineteenth century.

A new book works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world.

The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.

Historian Ned Blackhawk’s new book stresses the importance of telling US history with a wider and more inclusive lens.

Exploring recent debates about the uses–and utility–of Black history in both the academic and public spheres.

The complicated and visceral issue of how we preserve our history offers an opportunity for meaningful discourse.