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30 apr 2024 · The 1619 Project is a multimedia journalism series that reframes U.S. history around African American experiences, particularly slavery and its legacy in contemporary American life. The project was originated by New York Times Magazine staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, who received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for the ...
2 giorni fa · In 1619, Galileo became embroiled in a controversy with Father Orazio Grassi, professor of mathematics at the Jesuit Collegio Romano. It began as a dispute over the nature of comets, but by the time Galileo had published The Assayer ( Il Saggiatore ) in 1623, his last salvo in the dispute, it had become a much wider controversy over ...
1 giorno fa · A group of enslaved Africans arrived in the English Virginia Colony in 1619, marking the beginning of slavery in the colonial history of the United States; by 1776, roughly 20% of the British North American population was of African descent, both free and enslaved.
2 giorni fa · In astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler between 1609 and 1619, describe the orbits of planets around the Sun. The laws modified the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus , replacing its circular orbits and epicycles with elliptical trajectories, and explaining how planetary velocities vary.
9 mag 2024 · Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (born Sept. 14, 1547, Amersfoort, Spanish Netherlands [now in the Netherlands]—died May 13, 1619, The Hague, Neth.) was a lawyer, statesman, and, after William I the Silent, the second founding father of an independent Netherlands.
4 mag 2024 · The 1619 Project Podcast. Common Reading 2020-21: Listen. Learn. Act. The 1619 Project Podcast & This is My America. This year's theme, Listen. Learn. Act., is dedicated to learning about Black peoples and their experiences especially in the US. An Introduction to the 1619 Project and this Guide.
13 mag 2024 · "The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we ...
