Woody Holton, a professor of historical past on the College of South Carolina, and Phillip Magness, director of analysis and training on the American Institute for Financial Analysis, debate the decision, “The New York Instances e book The 1619 Mission, and the Hulu video collection based mostly on it, are necessary contributions to our understanding of slavery and the position of African People in American historical past.”
The controversy was held at New York Metropolis’s Sheen Heart and hosted by The Soho Discussion board, which receives fiscal sponsorship from Cause Basis, the nonprofit that publishes Cause.
Taking the affirmative was Holton, who’s the writer of Compelled Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, which received the Group of American Historians’ Merle Curti Social Historical past Award; Unruly People and the Origins of the Structure, a finalist for the Nationwide Guide Award; Abigail Adams, which received the Bancroft Prize; and Liberty Is Candy: The Hidden Historical past of the American Revolution, which Holton wrote as The Huntington Library’s Los Angeles Instances distinguished fellow and as a Nationwide Endowment for the Humanities fellow.
Arguing towards the decision was Magness, the writer of The 1619 Mission: A Critique. He holds a Ph.D. and grasp’s from George Mason College’s College of Public Coverage and a bachelor’s from the College of St. Thomas (Houston). Magness’ work encompasses the financial historical past of the USA, with specializations within the financial dimensions of slavery and racial discrimination, the historical past of taxation, and measurements of financial inequality over time. Along with his scholarship, Magness’ writings have appeared in quite a few venues, together with The Wall Road Journal, The New York Instances, Newsweek, Politico, Cause, Nationwide Overview, and The Chronicle of Greater Schooling.
