1. Looks like @jbouie already deleted his own response to this thread, which is an unfortunate loss to the scholarly debate at issue. https://twitter.com/jsende/status/1200926088232394757 …pic.twitter.com/9KipbcsGDn
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1. Looks like @jbouie already deleted his own response to this thread, which is an unfortunate loss to the scholarly debate at issue. https://twitter.com/jsende/status/1200926088232394757 …pic.twitter.com/9KipbcsGDn
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2. There are numerous valid, specific, factual critiques of the package of essays launching the 1619 Project, and one has to labor to avoid them. My own thread just on Bouie's essay & its failure to accurately portray recent political history:https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1163842860132777984 …
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3. The most notorious example of how the 1619 Project got it grievously wrong is the ahistorical treatment of the American Revolution; I touched just the surface of that here https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1163495003659952128.html … & herehttps://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1163548660480786434 …
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4. A serious effort to grapple with the problems of fact & perspective in the 1619 Project would respond to the specific critiques, e.g, https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/1619-project-new-york-times-king-cotton-thesis/ …https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/10/02/slavery-gave-us-double-entry-bookkeeping/ …
5. Or consider the @DamonLinker critique of how the Kruse essay on traffic was framed vs what it actually showedhttps://theweek.com/articles/859776/new-york-times-surrenders-left-race …
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6. Now, I get that part of the goal here is to undermine the authority of respected scholars like James McPherson & James Oakes, but cavalierly dismissing them on the grounds of "what do white guys know about debates over slavery" is unhelpfulhttps://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1197648775977848833 …
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7. At the end of the day, while individual scholars & pundits may earn more or less credibility from their body of work, historical debate is not advanced by ad hominems & closing your ears to voices that critique your narrative.
I grew up on Lost Cause nonsense and it was MacPherson’s book that finally convinced me that all of the stuff I’d learned before I read it was revisionist history, written and designed to minimize what the South did. I am sure he did the same for many others.
No one book could ever cover the whole topic, but Battle Cry of Freedom is absolutely the one Civil War book I'd take to a desert island.
It’s got a place of honor on my desk.
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