Unfamiliar with the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory, I set out to investigate to see how they would fit with the teaching of American government, which I did for many years. This week I’ll try ...

The problem is, like every claim Hannah-Jones makes, the claim that slavery began in America in 1619 is a fiction to begin with. Now, a new project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is ...

What does it mean to tell a country's story? In August 2019, The New York Times Magazine proposed one answer to this question for the United States. A package of essays taking up an entire issue of ...

In early 2019, New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones made a simple pitch to her editors. The year marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to the English colony of ...

A recent episode of a Disney+ cartoon show has woke kids performing a skit around the theme “Slaves built this country.” The installment of the “Proud Family” series — in which the kids find out the ...

‘Born on the Water’ is full of symbols that represent the life, death, and rebirth central to the Black experience in America. When the 1619 Project came out in The New York Times two years ago, it ...

From the moment the New York Times started to roll out installments of The 1619 Project in 2019, this painstakingly researched and groundbreaking long-form origin story heightened ongoing discussion ...

The “history wars” have heated up as more schools debate whether America’s founding goes back to Independence Day in 1776 or to the first Africans facing slavery in 1619 Virginia. A growing number of ...

"We’re finally now getting to the point where we’re going to be addressing the original sin of this country, 400 years old," candidate Joe Biden told Wisconsin voters in September 2020, "slavery and ...

According to Nikole Hannah-Jones's myth , U.S. history didn’t really begin until August 1619, when about 20 slaves were sold to the governor of the Virginia colony by a British privateer. This ...

What does it mean to tell a country's story? In August 2019, The New York Times Magazine proposed one answer to this question for the United States. A package of essays taking up an entire issue of ...