"The 1619 Project" is a journalistic effort via The New York Times Magazine to reframe the foundational narrative of the United States and African Americans' contributions to its development. It's also a podcast! Library workers have facilitated this access by creating the go/1619/ link. If you are off campus, you can use go.middlebury.edu/1619. This content can also be accessed via the New York Times (NYT) online archive. Just search for '1619 Project'. You will need an NYT subscription to access the archives: students can sign up for a free NYT online subscription by going to go/nytpass/.
Articles included in this August 2019 special issue of The New York Times Magazine are listed below by title and accompanied by the authors' names:
- "America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made It One", essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- "American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation", essay by Matthew Desmond
- "A New Literary Timeline of African-American History", a collection of original poems and stories from 16 different writers, including Clint Smith, Yusef Komunyakaa, Eve L. Ewing, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Barry Jenkins and Jesmyn Ward, among others
- "How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in Medicine Today", essay by Linda Villarosa
- "What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of Slavery", essay by Jamelle Bouie
- "Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?", essay by Wesley Morris
- "How Segregation Caused Your Traffic Jam", essay by Kevin Kruse
- "Why Doesn't America Have Universal Healthcare? One word: Race", essay by Jeneen Interlandi
- "Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery", essay by Bryan Stevenson
- "The Barbaric History of Sugar in America", essay by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- "How America's Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder", essay by Trymaine Lee
- "Their Ancestors Were Enslaved by Law. Now They're Lawyers", photo essay by Djeneba Aduayom, with text from Nikole Hannah-Jones and Wadzanai Mhute
