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1619 Project Fact-Checker Says The New York Times Ignored Her Objections 1619 Slavery

1619 Project Fact-Checker Says The New York Times Ignored Her Objections

Leslie Harris is a Northwestern University historian who helped fact-check the 1619 Project, The New York Times's recent package of articles that recast chattel slavery as a foundational aspect of America. The project has been praised for drawing attention to underscrutinized racial inequities throughout American history. But has also attracted…
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March 6, 2020
Northwestern University Historian: I Warned The 1619 Project’s Author She Was Wrong About The Revolutionary War 1619 Slavery

Northwestern University Historian: I Warned The 1619 Project’s Author She Was Wrong About The Revolutionary War

Skip to comments. Northwestern University Historian: I Warned The 1619 Project’s Author She Was Wrong About The Revolutionary War Hotair ^ | 03/06/2020 | John Sexton Posted on 03/06/2020 10:31:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind One of the most contentious claims made in the NY Times 1619 Project is the claim…
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March 6, 2020
I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me. (Leslie M. Harris/Politico) 1619 Slavery

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me. (Leslie M. Harris/Politico)

11:20 AM ET, March 6, 2020 Anita Kumar / Politico: Trump's trip to CDC in flux after coronavirus scare  —  President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his scheduled Friday visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta even as the coronavirus outbreak escalates.  —  Trump's schedule Friday, which…
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March 6, 2020
Historian: I warned the 1619 Project’s author she was wrong about the Revolutionary War 1619 Slavery

Historian: I warned the 1619 Project’s author she was wrong about the Revolutionary War

One of the most contentious claims made in the NY Times 1619 Project is the claim that the impetus for the Revolutionary War was really an attempt to protect the institution of slavery. In her lead essay, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote “one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare…
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March 6, 2020
Friday: Hili dialogue 1619 Slavery

Friday: Hili dialogue

Good Friday (well, not the real one)! It’s March 6, 2020, and National Oreo Day, a deservedly successful cookie. (Why couldn’t Hydrox compete? That cookie is nearly extinct, and you can get them only on eBay or by mail order—at inflated prices. Even Amazon has run out of them.) Like…
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March 6, 2020
How Coptic Christianity is Finding a Refuge in America 1619 Slavery

How Coptic Christianity is Finding a Refuge in America

A new church in Northern Virginia finds the historically Egyptian faith traveling to new shores.The entry to the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, St. Anthony Coptic Monastery. Credit: Chr. Offenberg/ShutterstockFive years ago, on a Libyan beach, ISIS militants beheaded 21 orange-clad Christian men in a meticulously choreographed propaganda video. Twenty of them…
bubmag
March 5, 2020
Omohundro Institute and NYT to Live Stream Discussion of 1619 Project on March 6 1619 Slavery

Omohundro Institute and NYT to Live Stream Discussion of 1619 Project on March 6

The Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture and the New York Times will present a live stream of "Slavery and the American Revolution: A Historical Dialogue," a panel discussion of the recent 1619 Project on Friday, March 6. Institute Executive Director will host a discussion featuring Annette Gordon-Reed, Eliga Gould,…
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March 5, 2020
Talking about a revolution 1619 Slavery

Talking about a revolution

ON AN ICY late evening in Boston, on March 5th 1770, an angry mob advanced on a dozen redcoats standing outside the city’s customs building. Ignoring the pleas of the British officer present, Captain Thomas Preston, the Bostonians hurled razor-edged oyster shells and blocks of wood and ice in the…
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March 5, 2020