The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a 2021 anthology of essays and poetry, published by One World (an imprint of Random House) on November 16, 2021. It is a book-length expansion of the essays presented in the 1619 Project issue of The New York Times Magazine in August 2019. The book was created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine, and is edited by Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein.

On January 26, 2023, The 1619 Project documentary television series based on the original project and book debuted on Hulu.

Reception

The 1619 Project debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending November 20, 2021.

On Book Marks, from nine critics: six "rave", two "positive", and one "mixed". It received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. Booklist included it in a list of the magazine's top 10 history books of 2021. An American Heritage survey found that The 1619 Project was one of its readership's 15 favorite books published in 2021.

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References

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The 1619 Project Forum, AHR

Barker, Joanne (December 2022). "Troubling Democracy". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1805–1810. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
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Edwards, Erika Denise (December 2022). "From Pain to Purpose: Shared Histories of Black America". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1845–1849. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Gordon-Reed, Annette (December 2022). "What Fear Produced: The Culture of White Supremacy in America". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1795–1799. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Greene, Sandra E. (December 2022). "'Necessary, Despite Errors, Distortions and Omissions'". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1823–1827. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Jones, Jeannette Eileen (December 2022). "Exploring 'American' Slavery: A Review of The 1619 Project and 1619education.org". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1857–1861. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Mikhail, Alan (December 2022). "1619, Islam, and Other Possible Histories". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1840–1845. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Moten, Crystal (December 2022). "A Beginning Worth Continuing: The 1619 Podcast". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1862–1865. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Powell, Eve M. Troutt (December 2022). "1619 in the Middle East". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1831–1834. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Schine, Rachel (December 2022). "Revisiting Religion, Race, and Place in the Islamic World with The 1619 Project". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1835–1840. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Scott, Daryl Michael (December 2022). "African American Exceptionalism in the Service of American Exceptionalism". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1815–1819. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Sharfstein, Daniel (December 2022). "The Critique and the Claim of the 1619 Project". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1810–1815. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Silverstein, Jake (December 2022). "Response from the New York Times Magazine". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1870–1871. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Stremlau, Rose; Lowry, Malinda; Reed, Julie L. (December 2022). "Interconnected Histories of Enslavement and Settler Colonialism". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1799–1805. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Sweet, James H. (December 2022). "An African-Atlantic Perspective on 1619's 'Origins' Project". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1827–1830. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Williams, Danielle Terrazas (December 2022). "Latin America and Sugar in 1619". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1849–1853. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
Wulf, Karin (December 2022). "Descendancies". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1819–1822. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.