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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01gm80hz39h| Title: | The 1619 Project: Critiques and Defenses |
| Keywords: | 1619 project African Americans—United States—History African Americans—Civil rights Slavery—United States—History Racism—United States—History |
| Issue Date: | 21-Oct-2020 |
| Description: | Following the publication of the New York Times’s 1619 Project, critiques have been offered, and the Times and other outlets have offered a defense of the project. This file compiles a number of the most prominent works published in late 2019 and 2020. Includes essays: How we think about the term 'enslaved' matters / Nell Irvin Painter — The New York Times embraces a neo-Confederate world view for its 1619 project / Erick Erickson — Who got the maddest about the New York Times’ slavery coverage? / Ashley Feinberg — The New York Times surrenders to the left on race / Damon Linker — 1619 and the cult of American innocence / Zack Beauchamp — The New York Times 1619 Project is reshaping the conversation on slavery. Conservatives hate it. / J. Brian Charles — The founders were flawed. The nation is imperfect. The constitution is still a 'glorious liberty document.' / Timothy Sandefur — Conservatives’ freakout over the 1619 Project reveals their fear of America’s actual past / Jeet Heer — The ‘1619 Project’ isn’t anti-American; It’s anti-white identity politics / Eric Levitz — How the 1619 Project rehabilitates the ‘King Cotton’ thesis / Phillip W. Magness — The 1619 Project’s potted history / Michael Brendan Dougherty — The New York Times has abandoned liberalism for activism / Andrew Sullivan — How The New York Times is distorting american history / Wilfred M. McClay — The flagrant distortions and subtle lies of the ‘1619 Project’ / Rich Lowry — America wasn’t founded on white supremacy / Lucas Morel — American slavery and ‘the relentless unforeseen’ / Sean Wilentz — Preaching a conspiracy theory / Allen C. Guelzo — Fact checking the 1619 Project and its critics / Phillip W. Magness — Why we published the 1619 Project / Jake Silverstein — The fight over the 1619 Project is not about the facts / Adam Serwer — We respond to the historians who critiqued the 1619 Project / Victoria Bynum, James M. McPherson, James Oakes, Sean Wilentz, Gordon S. Wood, Jake Silverstein — 1776 honors America’s diversity in a way 1619 does not / Conor Friedersdorf — Twelve scholars critique the 1619 Project and the New York Times Magazine editor responds / William B. Allen, Michael A. Burlingame, Joseph R. Fornieri, Allen C. Guelzo, Peter Kolchin, Glenn W. LaFantasie, Lucas E. Morel, George C. Rable, Diana J. Schaub, Colleen A. Sheehan, Steven B. Smith, Michael P. Zuckert, Jake Silverstein — A matter of facts / Sean Wilentz — The shameful final grievance of the Declaration of Independence / Jeffrey Ostler — The case for retracting Matthew Desmond’s 1619 Project essay / Phillip W. Magness — I helped fact-check the 1619 Project. The Times ignored me / Leslie M. Harris — Down the 1619 Project’s memory hole / Phillip W. Magness — The 1619 chronicles / Bret Stephens — How the 1619 Project took over 2020 / Sarah Ellison — The 1619 Project’s greatest contribution / Leslie M. Harris and Karin Wulf — Uniquely bad, but not uniquely American / Kay S. Hymowitz — On recent criticism of the 1619 Project / Jake Silverstein — New York Times to staff: You can only trash colleagues if you have a column / Laura Wagner |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01gm80hz39h |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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