Why We Published The 1619 Project

Aug 18, 2019 ... Four hundred years ago this month, the first enslaved people from Africa arrived in the Virginia colony. To observe the anniversary of ...

Aug 18, 2019 ... Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about ... To bring The 1619 Project to non-Times subscribers, we have printed ...

Aug 14, 2019 ... It aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of ...

Dec 23, 2019 ... And I accept that criticism, for sure.” She said that as the 1619 Project is expanded into a history curriculum and published in book form, the ...

Mar 6, 2020 ... The 1619 Project became one of the most talked-about journalistic achievements of the year—as it was intended to. The Times produced not just a ...

Apr 13, 2021 ... “The 1619 Project book extends and refines the original magazine's persuasive case that our country was set into motion and is still defined by ...

Dec 20, 2019 ... The goal of The 1619 Project is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation's birth year. Doing ...

The goal of The 1619 Project is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation's birth year. Doing so requires us to ...

These were also the first Africans in mainland British America, though Africans had been in other parts of North America since the 1500s. The project also ...

Nov 19, 2021 ... “We applaud all efforts to address the enduring centrality of slavery and racism to our history,” the historians had written.) Their main ...