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The 1619 Project
A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Jake Silverstein
Caitlin Roper
Ilena Silverman
2021
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Comparison
History Bright and Dark
Americans have often been politically divided. But have the divisions over how we recount our history ever been so deep?
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Adam Hochschild
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New York Review of Books
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May 2, 2023
Argument
Is History History? Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present
When historians concede to discuss the past with the terms of the present, they abandon the skill set that makes them historians.
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James H. Sweet
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Perspectives on History
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August 17, 2022
Book Review
Cuba & the US: Necessary Mirrors
Exponentially more enslaved Africans were forced to the lands that now make up Latin America rather than the United States. Where is their story?
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Geraldo Cadava
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Public Books
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April 13, 2022
Book Review
The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History
Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.
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Phillip W. Magness
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Reason
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March 29, 2022
Book Review
What the 1619 Project Means
Nothing could be more toxic to our ongoing effort to build a multiracial democracy than to cast any race as a perennial hero or villain.
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Helen Andrews
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First Things
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January 23, 2022
Book Review
The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History
The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.
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Lauren Michele Jackson
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The New Yorker
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December 8, 2021
Argument
The NYT’s Jake Silverstein Concocts “a New Origin Story” for the 1619 Project
The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”
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Tom Mackaman
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World Socialist Web Site
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November 24, 2021
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Looking Back at 1619 in 2019–2021, and Beyond
1619 Project reignited debate over slavery’s origins, exposing tensions between continuity vs change in U.S. history and competing “origin stories.”
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David Waldstreicher
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Reviews In American History
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March 16, 2026
Missed America
When all the bad things America did are true, but none of the good things, something is amiss.
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Johann N. Neem
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The Hedgehog Review
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July 7, 2023
America Loved Tina Turner. But It Wasn’t Good To Her.
Over the course of her 83 years, the megawatt star that was Tina Turner kept telling us who she was in the hopes that we would see her — all of her.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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Andscape
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June 6, 2023
The Right Side of History
How should historians respond to the urgency of this current political moment?
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Emma Green
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The New Yorker
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March 7, 2023
We Must Burn Them: Against the Origin Story
"History is written by the victors, but diligent and continual silencing is required to maintain its claims on the present and future."
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Hazel V. Carby
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London Review of Books
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May 26, 2022
The Historians Are Fighting
Inside the profession, the battle over the 1619 Project continues.
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William Hogeland
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Slate
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October 30, 2021
