Forgetting vs. Overcoming: Abuses of History and the 1619 Project
The 1619 Project is, strangely, a history project that encourages forgetting as much as it remembers.
Robert C. Thornett
· 15 min read
1619 Project
A collection of 5 posts
To Skate—Perchance to Soar
Skateboarding is simple and complex, pointless and transformational.
Damian Platt
· 16 min read
PODCAST 79: Coleman Hughes on the "1776" Project
Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes on why he and some other prominent black intellectuals have created the “1776” project, a response to the New York Times‘s 1619 Project. Quillette recently published an article on the “1776” project by Wilfred Reilly, another of the people involved.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776
There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines.
Wilfred Reilly
· 10 min read
Frederick Douglass, The Columbian Orator, and the 1619 Project
This vision of universal human rights based on our common humanity was the common ground shared by these two antislavery giants in American history, and it is the common ground now renounced by the 1619 Project.
Joseph R. Fornieri
· 9 min read