- Published: 16 November 2021
- ISBN: 9780753559567
- Imprint: Virgin Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 624
The 1619 Project
A New American Origin Story
- Published: 16 November 2021
- ISBN: 9780753559567
- Imprint: Virgin Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 624
Visionary... imaginative, all-encompassing... the sheer breadth of this book is refreshing and illuminating, challenging each and every reader to confront America's past, present and future
BookPage (starred)
This invaluable book sets itself apart by reframing readers' understanding of U.S. history, past and present
Library Journal (starred)
Readers will discover something new and redefining on every page ... This visionary, meticulously produced, profound, and bedrock-shifting testament belongs in every library and on every reading list ... [an] invaluable and galvanizing history ... revelatory
Booklist (starred)
A sweeping study of the "unparalleled impact" of African slavery on American society... The result is a bracing and vital reconsideration of American history
Publishers Weekly (starred)
A much-needed book that stakes a solid place in a battlefield of ideas over America's past and present
Kirkus Reviews (starred)
[A] groundbreaking compendium... bracing and urgent... This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling
Esquire, "Best Books of Fall 2021"
Restores people erased from the national narrative, offering a motivating, if sobering, origin story we need to understand if we are ever going to truly achieve 'liberty and justice for all'
Women’s Review of Books
The ambitious project that got Americans rethinking our racial history... expanded into a book incorporating essays from pretty much everyone you want to hear from about the country's great topic and great shame
Los Angeles Times
The groundbreaking project from The New York Times, which created a new origin story for America based on the very beginnings of American slavery, is expanded into a very large, very powerful full-length book
Entertainment Weekly
Pleasingly symmetrical... [a] mosaic of a book, which achieves the impossible on so many levels -- moving from argument to fiction to argument, from theme to theme, and backward and forward in time, so smoothly
Slate
A wide-ranging, landmark summary of the Black experience in America: searing, rich in unfamiliar detail, exploring every aspect of slavery and its continuing legacy . . . Again and again, The 1619 Project brings the past to life in fresh ways. . . . Multifaceted and often brilliant
The New York Times Book Review
A remarkable reframing of American history in which slavery and the Black experience are at the heart of the narrative
The Guardian