First Quiz – Context for “The 1619 Project” Controversies

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First Quiz – Context for “The 1619 Project” Controversies

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First Short Quiz – Context for “The 1619 Project” Controversies


1. Has teaching The New York Times’ “The 1619 Project” become an explosive political issue in America as dozens of states have banned, or are considering banning, the teaching of “The 1619 Project” in their public schools?

2. Was “The 1619 Project” launched as the 8/14/2019 issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine whose 100 pages were dedicated to 10 essays, a photo essay, and a collection of poems and fiction by an additional 16 writers?

3. Did the NY Times publish hundreds of thousands of extra copies of the 8/14/2019 Magazine so that it would attain a much wider distribution than the list of subscribers to The NY Times’ regular Sunday edition?

4. Were the authors of the 10 essays, etc., eminent historians? Or was the first filter for their selection being African-American so that their voices more authentically represented the Black experience/perspective?

5. Did the authors have support from a panel of historians and from the Smithsonian for fact-checking, research and development?

6. Did quite a few prominent historians attack various historical “facts” asserted in “The 1619 Project”?

7. Indeed, did one of the historians who served as a consultant for “The 1619 Project,” write afterwards in Politico that she had warned that the idea that the American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery was inaccurate and that The NY Times had made other avoidable mistakes?

[Details about the more controversial historical “facts” asserted in “The 1619 Project” (as well as controversial aspects of lesson plans whose sources are described below) will be addressed in our Second Short Quiz.]

8. Did The NY Times always plan to take “The 1619 Project” into American schools with curricula developed in collaboration with The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting?

9. Has The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting made available free on-line lesson plans usable by all elementary grades through college? Have these lesson plans been developed both by The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, and also by teachers who donated their lesson plans to The Center?

10. Was The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting formed in 2006? Is its mission statement – “The Pulitzer Center raises awareness of underreported global issues through direct support for quality journalism and a unique program of education and public outreach”?

11. Does The PULITZER Center for Crisis Reporting have any relationship to PULITZER prizes? Or since any organization can call itself whatever it wants, did it employ a typical strategy for achieving instant notoriety by using an instantly-recognizable name as part of its own name?

12. Was The PULITZER Center for Crisis Reporting founded in 2006 by Emily Rauh PULITZER who currently heads its Board of Directors?

13. Was she the second wife of Joseph PULITZER III (1913-1993) who published (like his father and grandfather) the St. Louis Dispatch (in his case, for 38 years 1955-1993)? Did he serve for 31 years as the Chairman of the PULITZER Prize Committee (which is part of Columbia U) – the last association with his demise 28 years ago of the PULITZER family with the PULITZER Prize Committee?

14. Nonetheless, does The PULITZER Center for Crisis Reporting have an incredible worldwide reach on many different issues? Does its staff of 46 oversee more than 400 grants made in 2020 alone? Did it have an operating budget in 2020 in excess of $5 million and net assets at the end of the year in excess of $26 million?

15. Is our focus book, “1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project,” a fairly-comprehensive review of “The 1619 Project” in terms of (A) slavery in the so-called New World for the more-than-a-century before the founding of any of the 13 American colonies, (B) slavery in England’s American colonies for the century-and-a-half that they were ruled by England, (C) the American Revolution and (D) the American Civil War in which were killed 750,000 soldiers (putting aside civilian casualties) and which resulted in the formal abolition of slavery?

16. BTW, does James Michener’s “Mexico” describe how many, if not most, American plantation owners following the American Civil War simply moved south and proceeded virtually without missing a beat? Is this why “share cropping” which cropped up (sorry, I couldn’t resist) after the Civil War, featured such extreme poverty because the “share croppers” and their landlords were competing with SLAVE LABOR in Mexico? Is this any surprise considering that slaves from Africa had already “felt the whip” for centuries on Caribbean and Central/South American plantations?

17. Is our focus book also a fairly-comprehensive review of the reaction of historians to “The 1619 Project” and the ensuring imbroglio?

18. Is the author of our focus book, Peter W. Wood. the President of the National Association of Scholars, a former professor of anthropology and college provost, the author of several books about American culture, the editor-in-chief of the journal Academic Questions, and the recipient in 2019 of the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for contributions to academic freedom?

19. Is there scheduled for release 11/16/2021 (available for pre-order on Amazon.com for $23.99) a book entitled “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” authored/edited by the project’s original author/editor, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and billed as “an on-going initiative from The New York Times Magazine”?

20. BTW, doesn’t it seem odd that the release of the new book is 5 months in the future but Amazon.com specifies that it is 512 pages?

21. Does Condoleezza Rice try to “pour oil on troubled waters” in her comments about “The 1619 Project” on CBS’ “Face The Nation” on June 6? Is a transcript of her comments available at viewtopic.php?f=645&t=2071&sid=a3af3150 ... 2eac586ec5?

22. For those of us who don’t recall her credentials, did Condoleezza Rice serve (inter alia) as Provost of Stanford University (1993-1999); U.S. National Security Adviser (2001-2005); U.S. Secretary of State (2005-2009); Stanford U. Political Science Professor 2009-2020 (while wearing a “second hat” 2010-2020 as Stanford Business School’s Director of its Global Center for Business and the Economy); and since 9/1/2020 as Executive Director of Stanford U’s Hoover Institution?

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