Total word count 2200-2800 words. Due April 7, before your spring break. This project will be a part of your final 6000 word portfolio. Note however due to emergency circumstances of this semester, I will grade accordingly and give you as much credit as possible for all work you do. So don’t worry about the exact word count.
Write a review of Hannah-Jones, Intro to 1619 Project, “The Idea of America.”
https://pulitzercenter.org/builder/lesson/reading-guide-quotes-key-terms-and-questions-26504
Also available here:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
and Wilentz’s
Review two additional sources. As a student researcher and inquirer, you find your own articles. You can share sources on the blog. The blog is also for bringing up discussion points and questions. Here are the articles, I’ve found as a result of my “research as inquiry,” two of which we’ve discussed already. You can use these articles or research and ask questions and look for the sources that will inform you on what you want to know.
Magness.
https://www.aier.org/article/fact-checking-the-1619-project-and-its-critics/
Lindsay.
Here’s an excerpt from Frederick Douglas writing about advising President Abraham Lincoln that shows us what the situation was during the Civil War for free African Americans. Question to ask is: how does this relate to Hannah-Jones’ view. This whole website is worth looking at for the role of African Americans in the Civil War. You can also read the wikipedia entry on Frederick Douglass.
Douglass, Frederick. “Secession and War.” (The date on the website must be a mistake, as the text discusses events during the war. Douglass’ “Autobiography” was published in several editions, each time the author adding discussion of recent events.)
http://www.learningabe.info/Douglass_article_3.html
And here is a super interesting entry to Wikipedia on the famous 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Color Brigades in the Civil War. The wikipedia entry can be discussed itself, but also can serve as a source for your own further research/inquiry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th_Massachusetts_Infantry_Regiment
The movie, Glory depicts this regiment. If you want to see it on Youtube or Netflix or Amazon, you can use it in your research as inquiry project. Perhaps write a review of the movie, and discuss the historical accuracy, or simply a reflection on it and what you did or did not know about this topic. And of course, relate it back to Hannah-Jones and Wilentz. You’ll note that Frederick Douglas in the article above is discussing recruiting African Americans into these special brigades.
Here’s a video, it’s long, of 3 professors, discussing the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War. Very interesting and probably necessary to understand racism in the U.S. today.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?404528-1/150th-anniversary-reconstruction
And here’s a link to the Wikipedia entry on the Civil Rights Act of 1968, arguably the 3rd founding of the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968
Lastly, I want to link an outline of the U.S. Constitution. We should especially look at the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. Researchers and inquirers should do a wiki search on each and also compare to the wartime “Emancipation Proclamation.” We will discuss this in the blog and on Zoom.
https://www.fortheteachers.org/File%20Cabinet/United%20States%20Constitution%20Outline.pdf
