[Michlib-l] The 1619 Project Tonight

[Thomas Trahey]

The shifting landscape in education is the focus of the three January,
2022, sessions. Starting at 7 pm for the next three Mondays at the
Ludington Area Center for the Arts, the event looks specifically at the
1619 Project. Featured guest speaker for January 10th is Dr. Robert Cook,
Professor Emeritus of American History, University of Sussex.

I enjoy teaching undergraduate courses at Sussex on the coming of the
American Civil War, Civil War memory and African American history since
Reconstruction and in 2019 taught an MA course on modern African American
history at the Charles University in Prague.

*Professor Robert Cook, Professor Emeritus, University of Sussex *

Some questions people have about this Project include: What is the 1619
Project? How can something that’s supposedly been true since the beginning
of the nation only surface now? Have there been other times when history
has been “rewritten” or “revised”? How do you make sense of these fights
about what’s historically true? Why dredge up the past?

Shifting Landscapes events will continue to be hosted at the Ludington
Center for the Arts (LACA), 107 S Harrison Street, Ludington, from 7-8:30
PM, and available via Zoom at mcdl.pub/sl-zoom. All sessions are free.
Attendees are encouraged to register at mcdl.pub/sl-register. For further
information check the library’s website at mcdl.pub/sl-info or contact
Trahey at ttrahey at mcdlibrary.org or Portmann at baportmann312 at gmail.com.


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Thomas Trahey
Mason County District Library
Head of Circulation
231-843-8465
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