One critical time period in American history was the era of slavery, the foundation of the systemic racism that persists to this day and is the subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project. As ...
The Times' 1619 Project director Nikole Hannah-Jones now argues that 1619 wasn't the "true founding" of America. Stefan Jeremiah Not content with aiming to rewrite American history with its 1619 ...
As the United States commemorates the 400th anniversary of the landing of the first Africans in Virginia, we're still grappling with slavery's impact. Earlier this year, we asked you to share family ...
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It was 400 years ago that the first enslaved African people arrived in what would become English North America. Organizations across the country, state and region have been marking that historic ...
On Thursday, President Trump gave a provocative speech about the teaching of American history, slamming the prize-winning 1619 Project and promoting a new strategy of “patriot education.” Trump’s ...
Angela landed in the Virginia Colony in the sweltering summer of 1619, after being brutally snatched from her native Africa. Along with other Africans, she was held captive in the bowels of a boat ...
On August 18th, 2019 it seemed almost everyone was hunting for a copy of New York Times Magazine. They even sold out, twice. So many wanted to hold a piece of history in their hands — the inaugural ...
One of the nation’s leading Lincoln scholars criticized the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project for its “historical sloppiness” and claimed journalists typically lack the expertise to consider ...
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Florida communications manager Barbara Golden leans on the late historian Michael Gannon when it comes to explaining Florida’s peg in America’s timeline. Gannon died in 2017 and went to his grave ...
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