Category: 1619 project

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+ 1619 project, daniel webster, david walker, ethiop, sally hemmings, thomas jefferson, william apess, william j wilson, william wells brown

The “True” American History: Part II

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The White House Conference on American History, as I pointed out in my last post, continued the narrative that God divinely sanctioned America and its founding. This narrative presents the Founding Fathers as devoutly Christian and purposefully focused on making American a “Christian” nation; however, that is not necessarily the case, and even if its is, as Lillian Smith points out in “The White … Read More The “True” American History: Part II

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+ 1619 project, lillian e smith, paula snelling, Pedagogy, the right way is not the moderate way

Lillian E. Smith Reading Group: Part II

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Last post, I wrote about the LES Reading Group that we are conducting this July. When I read Smith, her voices echoes through the years, speaking to this moment both nationally and internationally. I often wonder, and I hope this will be part of the reading group conversation, how she would react to this moment. How she would engage with social media. How she … Read More Lillian E. Smith Reading Group: Part II

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+ 1619 project, killers of the dream, lillian e smith, paula snelling

Lillian E. Smith Reading Group: Part I

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The more I read Lillian Smith, the more her voice resonates with the current moment. I do searches through the journal she edited with her life-long partner Paula Snelling, and each issues contains articles that, while published in the 1930s or 1940s, As well, the more I speak with people about Smith, I realize that people do not know her, at least they do … Read More Lillian E. Smith Reading Group: Part I

+ 1619 project, david walker, emma Lazarus, erick erickson, ernest j gaines, frank yerby, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Ken Cuccinelli

“I am as good as anybody”: 1619 and American Myths

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The reaction to the New York Times 1619 Project has ranged from overwhelming approval to unabashed criticism. This criticism stemmed from those who do not see, or more importantly do not want to see, the ways that race and the institution of chattel slavery has influenced every aspect of our nation from its foundations to the present. The project states that its aim “is … Read More “I am as good as anybody”: 1619 and American Myths

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