The 1776 Report is bad in all kinds of ways, but a lot of the commentary from professional historians boils down to, "These people don't have the right credentials to be pronouncing on this subject, and people like me should be the ones with the power to tell the national story."
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Seems like "What is this garbage?" and "Does anyone actually study X subject" are not necessarily unreasonable or unconnected criticisms.
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In my own criticisms of 1619, I didn't take that line because I think it's BS. Anyone can read books/research. It doesn't require a credential conferred by a guild.
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Yes, anyone can research. But that requires that they do...research! Not just regurgitating a lot of lame nationalist talking points while refusing to engage with the scholarship they are denouncing. It is telling that they couldn’t or wouldn’t find people with history training
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The 1619 project has its issues, and historians duly noted them. The huge difference I see here is one is a commissioned report by the government and the other was for the NY Times. At this point I think we need a group of historians to do a government report on it all.
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There was an intellectual debate?
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Reactions from McPherson, Wood et al to 1619 were deeply factual and substantive. The
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I have seen quite the opposite. I have seen line-by-line rebuttals of the conclusions the 1619 project makes and why its wrong.... and the proponents of it had simply dismissed the criticism as coming from people who don't have a right to criticize it
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It’s not credential flashing to ask why a commission about the importance of accurate telling a if American history involved no professional historians of America.
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Telling of, rather.
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