Jones’s opening essay from the original project is still part of this book, but the book begins instead with a new introduction to the collected book version. I was really excited to hear this new introduction because it addressed something I thought was missing from a lot of the discourse around the project. I am not a historian and would never claim to be one, and the only way I know how to think through historical writing is through comparison among different texts. In addition, […]
The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project by Editor: Nikole Hannah-Jones