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.
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...
By Chasia Jeffries Edited by Iman Iftikhar '23 and Endure McTier '22 Introduction African people were some of the first occupants of the land we currently understand to be the country of Spain; they even occupied and ruled the country for centuries. However, when one looks at the...
By Alexandra Tamvakis Edited by Leila Iskandarani '22 and Philip Mousavizadeh '24 Introduction On August 16, 1963, a few thousand visitors streamed through the doors of McCormick Place, a convention hall located near Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois. As they entered the exhibition hall, they were greeted by...
By Emily Browder Edited by Jisoo Choi '22, Jack Antholis '24, and Esther Reichek '23 At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Chicago faced an acceleration in Progressive social reform in the face of social and political unrest. An influx of foreign immigrants combined...
By Zarina Iman Edited by Lizzie Bjork '21 and Zahra Yarali '24 Often mentioned in current popular culture, prenuptial agreements may seem a modern construction, but in fact, they have long existed in American society. Before and after the Revolutionary War, much of the American South operated under...
By Zoe Bernicchia-Freeman Edited by Gabby Sevillano '22 and Isabel Kirsch '22 In December of 1845, Dr. James Marion Sims performed his first experimental surgery on an enslaved woman named Lucy.1 [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CZ-MckqfV1ch7CrC177HNwlRMCIoiIsdCYS3cPKBKXM/edit#bookmark=id.9p9slberya5m] Lucy suffered from a severe...
