1/I want to make something clear: I criticized the 1619 project the other day after the letter from the 5 historians. It troubled me to see an editor at a newspaper essentially say to 5 distinguished scholars we know the literature better than you. BUT for people trying to use
So much of this could have been avoided by marketing this as "here's an additional perspective you should consider" not "we aim to reframe history around these essays." Almost none of the pushback has been about the black-experience parts of the project.
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I think the mission though is to say this belongs at the center of our historical narrative. If you’re going to accurately understand the narrative, you must see this stuff in its proper place. I think most historians agree w/the general concept/project.
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But that's wrong. It's a big piece of the story, but it's not the center of the American Revolution. It's not, if you do the math right, the center of American economic history.
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