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Does The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Missing Opportunity of the 1619 Project

Philip Holton: How many of you know any other author besides the Colhenna Jones or Matthew Desmond? Chove Hands? One or two of you? No one really knows that there's a dozen or so different other authors that had very interesting, important, and in fact, credible scholarly contributions on a wide variety of subjects. He says political debate around them has drowned out the remainder because it's focused on scoring talking points to reorient United States history. The enriching value of history comes from exactly those details that are neglected, omitted, and conveniently left out as they go against the narrative she was trying to tell.

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