On October 1, 2020, Lucas Morel and Wilfred McClay (whose recent Land of Hope serves as the basis of the 1776 Commission’s curricular design) joined us for a virtual conversation on the role of slavery in America’s Founding, the 1619 Project, and the establishment of the principles of liberty and equality in our nation’s origin.

In August 2019, the New York Times launched its 1619 Project, an alternative history of the United States that explicitly foregrounded slavery and its consequences in the American story (and, in an earlier version, explicitly named the year 1619 as our “true founding”). The series went on to receive a great deal of acclaim, as well as criticism from sources as diverse as the World Socialist Web Site and National Review. Most recently, President Trump announced a 1776 Commission to promote civic education in the United States in direct response to the New York Times project.

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