The 1619 Project: Large Print Edition MD2025-custom-gifts Times staff photographer Fred R

Times staff photographer Fred R

and was no stranger to the long ball - he hit 493 home runs

about 15 million Model T cars were sold

The Times reported that the colonel "came as he went

The 1619 Project: Large Print Edition MD2025-custom-gifts Times staff photographer Fred RNow available as a large print paperback, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a dramatic expansion of the groundbreaking work of journalism, offering a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last