Many political and social progressives are eager to redefine America as starting not in 1776, which is truly and literally when the very title “United States of America” began, but in the year 1619, ...

MSU's Institute for the Humanities is hosting a virtual event "From 1619 to 1776: How do we frame American history?” on its Facebook page! March 16, 3:30 p.m. Topic: How American history is taught, ...

“Teaching critical race theory doesn’t mean that you are teaching students to hate. It means you are teaching students to understand.” — James Grossman, American Historical Association “We need to ...

Smith is a historian and the author of American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era. Follow him on Twitter: @craigbrucesmith. All views are those of the author. “We ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Footage of the January 6 Capitol insurrection revealed hundreds of references to 1776—in signs and in speeches, on t-shirts ...

The New York Times’ 1619 Project, published in 2019, was an attempt to reinterpret American history through the prism of race and racial struggle. It condemned the American Revolution as a struggle by ...

Upward Mobility (02/18/20): The New York Times's 1619 Project isn’t about black history. It’s about today’s racial disparities and applying current ideologies to past events. Image: The 1776 Project ...

America, you’ve got the dates wrong. Your polarizing debate over which year marks the real beginning of the U.S.—1619 (slavery’s arrival) or 1776 (Declaration of Independence)—has come to resemble ...

As our country is going through a national reckoning on race, there is a newfound appetite to improve the teaching of Black and all of American history, and to underscore and celebrate the stories ...

One of the clearest signs that we are in a debate over the central meaning of our country, and therefore of our rights and of us, is the controversy about the status of the American founding. That ...

Critical race theory has become a hot topic at school board meetings around the country – but similar race-based programs, including the New York Times’ 1619 Project and some equity lessons, are also ...