Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early National America: 1619 Project

Click HERE for access to the 1619 Project from The New York Times.

Click HERE for additional support materials from the 1619 Project: Pulitzer Center Education Programming.

The New York Times is committed to adding more materials to the project throughout the year, but here is a list of the initial articles published in August, 2019:

• Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true, by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• If you want to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation, by Matthew Desmond
• Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery — and are still believed by doctors today, by Linda Villarosa
• America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others, by Jamelle Bouie
• For centuries, black music has been the sound of artistic freedom. No wonder everybody’s always stealing it, by Wesley Morris
• What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot, by Kevin Kruse
• Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? The answer begins with policies enacted after the Civil War, by Jeneen Interlandi
• Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our prison system, by Bryan Stevenson
• The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery, by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
• A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America, by Trymaine Lee
• Their ancestors were enslaved by law. Today, they are graduates of the nation’s preeminent historically black law school, a photo essay by Djeneba Aduayom