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Speaking at the White House Conference on American History on Thursday, President Trump announced he would be signing an executive order to create the “1776 Commission” to promote a “patriotic education.” Trump also blasted efforts to reexamine American history with a deeper emphasis on slavery and racism. Yamiche Alcindor joins Judy Woodruff to discuss Trump’s perspective on race.
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- Before 1620… Before 1619…: “The Epic Story” of Dutch Manhattan — the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America.”
- Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery’s ‘Hard History’ : NPR
- History in the Digital Age: New Technologies, New Data, New Insights, New Questions
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (2004)
- Dutch New York with Historian Barry Lewis – Dutch Golden Age
- Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Ronni Baer, Henk Van Nierop, Herman Roodenburg, Eric Sluijter, Marieke de Winkel, Sanny De Zoete
- Distinguished ‘Class Distinctions’ Offers New Perspectives on Dutch Art and Soci ety | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
and - Going Dutch – The Netherlands’ slave trade
- The Atlantic Trade and Africa: The Portuguese, the Spanish & the Dutch
- A New Look at Old Maps: The Islands, the “Prior Plantations” and the Provisioning of the African Maritime Trade
- In Black History Month, 2016….a Tribute to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. …a Cambridge~Global Living Legend
- Recalling Some Aspects of America’s Immigration Policies in Black History Month
- Commerce and Cartography on Colonial Frontiers: Reexamining American & African History ~ through Maps
- Mapping the Slave Trade: 1556-1823 – A Digital Humanities Project
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- Opinion | I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me. – POLITICO
- Legacies of 1619
- 400 Years: African Americans, 1619-2019
- Nikole Hannah-Jones on the conception of ‘The 1619 Project’ |The New York Times Magazine Presents ‘The 1619 Project’ Onstage | Pulitzer Center
- The New York Times Presents The #1619 Project
- The 1619 Project: A Nation Born in Contradiction, a Democracy Defined by Black Struggle
- How America’s History of Racism Informs the Current Moment | Amanpour and Company
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