4.25 Stars rounded upI've read this twice and enjoyed it both times.This has multiple contributors and is able to more than adequately defend its views and claims.That said its not radical and is inaccurate in regards to capitalism ever being good or a benefit.Chattel slavery ties directly to capitalism and can't be removed from it.This is liberal but moderate despite the right wing emotionally rabid response to it.

For those who premise that Historians write truth, I, as an Historian, will boldly disagree. Historians write perspective that is grounded in the interpretation of Primary Source Documents created by people — ordinary people, powerful people, people who did, people who observed, and people who had no voice. Rather than attacking this book for not telling the «Truth» or as undermining the mainstream story of our nation, The 1619 Project is a much needed opportunity for a candid and painful conver...

This is a great book to have and read slowly. It is a combination of history, essays, poems, historical blurbs, that traces the Black American experience since 1619 through the present day. I get why so many people don't like The 1619 Project. It is an unflinching look at some of the terrible things that Americans have done to each other because of the color of someone's skin. You read this and you tell yourself that we have progressed and we have. But we still strive to make a more perfect unio...

What a ripoff! Conservatives promised me a racist anti-american tirade and all I got was this deeply researched history of black people's struggles and contributions to our democracy and culture, and how there are many disparities stemming from slavery that still need to be fixed. I want my money back dammit!

Thanks PRH/One World for the advanced copy. I’m about 70 pages in and this is clearly the most important American History book written to date. Essential for all High School, Academic, and Public Libraries

Good primer. Most of this history is well known—and uncontroversial—to serious history readers but having it all in one place is useful. Given the excellent writing, it is not surprising it has become a lightning rod.

Do yourself a favor and skip this one

From my IG post: Do you know about the #1619Project? It started with @nikolehannahjones and @nytimes commemorating in 2019 the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans landing in Virginia. Articles, essays, and poetry center the American narrative around enslavement and the tool of racism in maintaining the country’s power and wealth structures. Woooo boy! I learned some thangs!.The book is fantastic and will give you all the feels and also crack a little dust off a few eyelids. I did re...

Slavery arrived on America's shores well before the Founding Fathers - 1619 in Virginia. This is an expanded book based on a groundbreaking piece that appeared in the New York Times Magazine. Including 18 essays, 36 poems and a variety of fiction, it had my attention from the first page. Starting from that first slave ship through modern day all aspects of slavery and oppression are explored as well as daily life, society, the arts and politics. I was absorbed by the essay that discussed how our...

Read it. Read it because a lot of people don't want you to, and the fact that they don't want you to should tell you something powerful is at work here. And it is. This collection of articles is simply amazing, and no matter what someone might want to think about the conclusions being drawn from these stories, no one can deny the obviously verifiable facts found within them. Whether you think America is still the same nation today that it was in the 16, 18 or 19 hundreds, what can't be denied is...

I graduated from High School in 2010 from a school in Upstate NY that did an excellent job teaching us about the history of African Americans in America. I learned correctly about the absolute brutality and down right evil that was inflicted upon those who were literally stolen from their homes and sold as property. I learned about the grueling middle passage as well as about the unrelenting labor they were forced to endure day in and day out with absolutely no regard to these men and women as i...

I deleted the review. It was an interesting experiment. Please move on😃. Have a nice day y’all.

This is a must-read.Like, every single American needs to have this in their hands and have read it. Require it in schools, require it everywhere. Gift it to your conservative family members who are racist as hell. Give it to your liberal whyte family members who are colorblind and practice tolerance. Give it to all others, so we can have to smashed into our faces like we do the puppy who pees on the carpet for the 50th time that racism in America is baked into its foundations and spins like a pe...

In this expanded version of the 2019 New York Times magazine of the same name, Nikole Hannah-Jones and a collection of scholars, journalists, and poets tell the story of how slavery and its legacy has shaped and impacted America across many facets of American life since the White Lion ship came ashore in Virginia in 1619 carrying at least 20 Africans onboard. Prose and poetry are used throughout the book to show slavery's lingering impact on topics such as: democracy, church, healthcare, medicin...

It’s kind of funny that this book is so controversial. Maybe I’m more radicalized than I thought but none of this felt like a huge overturning of what I knew of American history, at least the major parts. The 1619 Project looks at Black history, which is American history, in order to broaden our understanding of our country’s founding and progress. It adds a lot of nuance to American history, forcing its readers to look at how slavery, anti-slavery, and black lead civil rights movements have inf...

Honestly, this book should be required reading in all US schools.It is so incredibly well crafted, with a mix of factual articles and essays mixed in with poetry and flash fiction, all wrapped up in chronological order from when enslaved people first were brought against their will to this continent to the 2021 Insurrection at the US Capitol last year. It spans over topics such as medical myths and mistreatment to how much chattel slavery has built the foundation of the US to mass incarceration....

Audiobook….read by a full cast of authors. Voice narrator….Nikole Hannah-Jones, and full cast. ….18 hours and 57 minutes long “This is our national truth: America would not be America without the wealth from black labor, without black striving.. . So much . . . that we export to the world, that draws the world to us, comes forth from Black Americans m that is Black Americans’ Legacy to the nation . . . We cannot change the hypocrisy upon which we were found it . . . But we can atone for it. We...

Even though the Adam Hochschild published the review in the New York Times Review of Books, I strongly recommend reading his review.I read most of this in the NY Times magazine format when it first came out. This books expands on that and addresses some of the legit criticisms from the first publication.Honesty, you should read this. The book is not a straight forward history, more of an argument for rethinking how we look at history and frame the US origin myth. Considering how much some, if no...

Fake propaganda

"The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story" began as a project by the journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and others for "The New York Times" magazine, in 'honor" of the upcoming 400th anniversary of Africans arriving in the future United States of America, in 2019. It was so well-received that Ms. Hannah-Jones et al turned it into this seminal, gob-smacking book, w/ mostly-chronological chapters written by noted historians and journalists. Each chapter begins w/ a historical fact accompanied by a poem or...