Reading
Read all of the following three short articles: Scott 1619 and Trumpism.pdf
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248
Download Scott 1619 and Trumpism.pdf; Harris “I Helped Fact-Check”Links to an external site.Links to an external site.; and We Respond.pdf
Upload your summaries of Scott “Bad History,” Harris “I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me,” and “We Respond” here by noon (lunch time). Only upload .doc or .docx format. Pay Attention–the directions for this assignment are new: 1) Write three 75 word summaries, one on Scott “Bad History,” one on Harris “I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project” and one on “We Respond” (feel free to write more words, if you are feeling inspired); 2) be comprehensive–this is a summary of the “whole” of these three short pieces; 3) offer only one title for what you think the main point of all three readings is; and 4) use your own words as much as possible. Also, 5) add another section where you give your reaction to these three readings and give it a title that makes clear what your point is. That is, having read what we have read so far and discussed what we have discussed so far, what do you think about the claims made by Scott, Harris, the “five historians,” and the editor of the New York Times? Are there any claims that strike you as suspicious, incorrect, or even immoral? Are there any claims that you are starting to agree with that you didn’t necessarily agree with at the start of the class?
Author Information
Daryl Scott
The following is drawn from: https://works.bepress.com/darryl-scott/.
Professor Scott specializes in modern United States History and has taught at Howard since 2003. He previously taught at the University of Florida and Columbia University. He received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1994.
His book, Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996, won the Organization of American Historian’s 1998 James Rawley Prize for the best work in race relations. His essay, “Postwar Pluralism, Brown v. Board of Education, and the Origins of Multicultural Education,” was published in the Journal of American History in 2004.
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Leslie Harris
The following is drawn from: https://history.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/leslie-m-harris.html.
Leslie Harris (Ph.D., Stanford, 1995) has focused on complicating the ideas we all hold about the history of African Americans in the United States; and finding ways to communicate these new ideas to the general public. Her first body of work on New York City challenged the prevailing view of slavery as a phenomenon of the southern United States, with little impact or importance in the north. In her first book, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (University of Chicago, 2003), she examines the impact of northern and southern slavery on the definitions of class, gender, citizenship and political activism promulgated by New York’s blacks and whites. That work led to her participation in the New-York Historical Society’s groundbreaking exhibition Slavery in New York (2005-2006), for which she was a principal advisor as well as co-editor, with Ira Berlin, of the accompanying book.
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