The 1701 Project is a venture led by The Yale Historical Review (YHR) that analyzes our university’s and our nation’s racist histories. Although not affiliated with The 1619 Project, we draw inspiration from Nikole Hannah-Jones and her colleagues’ examination of slavery’s legacies in the New York Times. In June 2020, we launched an ongoing program at the YHR, providing a space for repressed narratives at Yale and beyond.
Rights, Progress, Genocide: The Politics of Black Reproduction in Twentieth-Century America By Eliza Kravitz YC '24 Edited by Katie Painter '23, Jamie Nicholas '25, and Ted Shepherd '25 Introduction Until African American Emancipation from slavery, Black reproduction in America comprised a key economic commodity. Since the 1662 implementation of slave...
Interview and transcription by Zoe Bernicchia-Freeman August 14, 2021 Dr. Shaun Wallace is a social historian of the eighteenth and nineteenth century United States. His research examines transatlantic slavery, with a particular focus on fugitives and fugitivity in the Antebellum South. He was awarded his PhD from the University of...
By Chinaza Asiegbu Originally published in July 2021 as part of Intersections, a joint issue of The Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal (NURJ) and the YHR. Introduction Since 1921, the Miss America pageant had been cherished as the pride of American beauty and womanhood—but this was not the case in...
By Renee Ong Edited by Aurelia Dochnal '23, Michelle Medawar '24, and Rosemary Chen '24 1. Introduction It could not have been easy for W.A. Graham. As the first and only top British representative responsible for Kelantan’s administration before it was officially colonized, his strong belief that the...
By Andrew Bilodeau Edited by Sarah Li '22 and Lucy Gilchrist '24 > “Although the mines are guarded, > The miners true and fair, > They mean to deal out justice, > A living they declare. > The corruption of Buchanan > Brought the convicts here, > Just to please the rich man > And take the miner's...
By Allison Lau Edited by Cynthia Lin '23 and Tiana Luo '24 By the mid 1960s, Oakland’s predominantly Black urban ghettos, like others across the nation, represented to many Black radicals the “concrete inner city jungles of Babylon”, as a metaphor to describe how the American state openly terrorized,...
