1619 Project 
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
5/2/2023
1776 vs. 1619: Hillsdale College Enters the History Wars
by Adam Hochshild
If conservatives are against "woke" history education, what, exactly, are they for? There's much to be learned from the curriculum created by the Michigan christian college, which presents a jarring contrast with the themes presented in the new Hulu documentary series based on Nikole Hannah-Jones's 1619 Project.
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SOURCE: Public Books
4/13/2022
Cuba and the US: Necessary Mirrors
by Geraldo Cadava
How much more could the 1619 Project have accomplished if it considered the broader connections of slavery, racism and power in the Caribbean?
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
3/30/2022
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Book Bans "Inevitable Backlash" to 2020 Protest Wave
The journalist cited historian Timothy Snyder's argument that authoritarianism relies on restricting national understanding of civic identity in ways that serve existing power.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
2/9/2022
Single Origin Stories Aren't Good History
by Emily Sclafani
Origin stories, whether of idealized liberty or racism as national original sin, tie the present to the past in ways that exclude the possibilities for change that existed then and exist now.
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SOURCE: The State (SC)
1/21/2022
Legislators: Come See How I Use 1619 Project in My Classroom Before You Ban It
by Woody Holton
South Carolina's H. 4343 bill would impoverish the history education legislators claim to value. Could an invitation to observe how the demonized 1619 Project is used as a teaching tool change any minds?
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SOURCE: World Socialist Website
1/20/2022
Jack Rakove on Writing History, and the 1619 Project
The Stanford historian emeritus gives a wide-ranging interview about his career, the American revolution, writing history, and his disagreements with the 1619 Project.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/19/2022
Nikole Hannah-Jones Angered a Crowd with an MLK Day Speech. The Words Were MLK's
“If you haven’t read, in entirety, his speeches, you’ve been miseducated and I hope that you will,” Hannah-Jones said on Twitter.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12/8/2021
The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History
by Lauren Michele Jackson
"In spite of all of the ugly evidence it has assembled, the 1619 Project ultimately seeks to inspire faith in the American project, just as any conventional social-studies curriculum would."
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SOURCE: WNYC
11/17/2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Brian Lehrer Show
With the release of the expanded book version of her 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones is back in the spotlight, for admirers and critics alike.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
11/10/2021
The Changing Same of U.S. History
by David Waldstreicher
Historians have returned to the question of whether the Constitution is the problem or the solution with renewed vigor and high stakes. Those accusing ideological rivals of "doing politics, not history" are not innocent of the same charge.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/9/2021
NYT Magazine's Silverstein: 1619 Is Part of Long Battle over Telling the Nation's Story
by Jake Silverstein
The continuing debate over the 1619 project shows that what we call "history" is inseparable from the process of historiography, which has never been free of bitter conflict and disagreement.
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SOURCE: Slate
10/30/2021
The Historians are (Still) Fighting
by Willam Hogeland
Inside the recent Massachusetts Historical Society dustup between Gordon Wood and Woody Holton over the significance of slavery to the American Revolution, and what it means for the public perception of history.
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SOURCE: The Nation
9/22/2021
Debate and Controversy are Essential to History Education
by Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow
Claims that critical perspectives on US history are "divisive" or "disruptive" or teach students to "hate America" were wrong in the 1980s, and are being repeated today. Educators must be free to serve the needs of students to compare, evaluate and debate.
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9/8/2021
The Specter of Emancipation and the Road to Revolution: A Rejoinder to Richard Brown et. al.
by Woody Holton
Woody Holton responds to a recent open letter of criticism by six Revolutionary-era historians of his interpretation of the significance of slavery as a motivation for colonial independence.
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SOURCE: Medium
9/7/2021
Group of Historians Challenges Woody Holton's Interpretation of the Significance of Dunmore's Proclamation
by Richard D. Brown et. al.
A group of scholars argues that the famous 1775 decree by Lord Dunmore that enslaved Virginians who joined the British forces would be emancipated was a desperate act that followed, not precipitated, the drive of white Virginians toward independence.
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8/8/2021
Historians Can't Leave the Teaching of History to Politicians
by Walter G. Moss
As a historian of Russia, the author finds today's political interference with history teaching "like Soviet authorities forbidding Soviet history teachers to mention Trotsky’s role in bringing the 1917 communist revolution about."
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SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
7/6/2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement After Passing Up UNC for Howard University
“I cannot imagine working at and advancing a school named for a man who lobbied against me, who used his wealth to influence the hires and ideology of the journalism school, who ignored my 20 years of journalism experience, all of my credentials, all of my work, because he believed that a project that centered Black Americans equaled the denigration of white Americans."
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
6/30/2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones Finally Has Been Granted Tenure. But the Damage Is Already Done.
It's uncertain that the Board of Trustees' decision to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones will lead her to join the University of North Carolina, and unlikely that the decision will erase the damage done by conservative interference in university governance.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/30/2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones Granted Tenure by UNC Trustees
The vote was 9-4, after a number of protesters were removed from the room. It is not now known if Hannah-Jones will now accept the appointment at UNC.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
6/29/2021
Finally: Tenure Vote for Hannah-Jones
by Colleen Flaherty
The Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will hold a special meeting Wednesday, reportedly to vote on tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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