1619 Project - Quillette

Forgetting vs. Overcoming: Abuses of History and the 1619 Project

The 1619 Project is, strangely, a history project that encourages forgetting as much as it remembers.

Robert C. Thornett

2 Mar 2023 · 15 min read

To Skate—Perchance to Soar

Skateboarding is simple and complex, pointless and transformational.

Damian Platt

26 Feb 2021 · 16 min read

PODCAST 79: Coleman Hughes on the "1776" Project

Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes on why he and some other prominent black intellectuals have created the “1776” project, a response to the New York Times‘s 1619 Project. Quillette recently published an article on the “1776” project by Wilfred Reilly, another of the people involved.

Quillette / Coleman Hughes

29 Feb 2020 · 1 min read

Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776

There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines.

Wilfred Reilly

17 Feb 2020 · 10 min read

Frederick Douglass, The Columbian Orator, and the 1619 Project

This vision of universal human rights based on our common humanity was the common ground shared by these two antislavery giants in American history, and it is the common ground now renounced by the 1619 Project.

Joseph R. Fornieri

30 Oct 2019 · 9 min read