The course HUMN 222 explores American history through The New York Times challenge, which argues that the origins of the United States date back to 1619, when the first enslaved Africans arrived from Angola. Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, claims that much of what defines America’s exceptionalism stems from slavery (About the course, Syllabus).
1619 Project Recommeded Websites
- Listen to ‘1619,’ a Podcast From The New York TimesAn audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.
- Local and Global Legacies of SlaveryThis collection brings together units from our curricular resource library that focus on the theme of Slavery's Local and Global Legacies.
Printed materials avaialble at the library
- The 1619 Project : a new origin storyThis is the course's book.
