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SPICE: The History Wars: Debating the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory

Past Sessions
Friday, December 16, 2022 22 Kislev 5783 - 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, December 12, 2022 18 Kislev 5783 - 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Friday, December 9, 2022 15 Kislev 5783 - 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Monday, December 5, 2022 11 Kislev 5783 - 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

The History Wars: Debating the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory ($50.88 temple members/$63.60 non-members)
** Please Note: At the request of the instructor, this course will not be recorded

Mondays, December 5, 12; Fridays, December 9, 16 (10:30 a.m.-noon)

Course Summary: By now, it seems everyone has an opinion about the 1619 Project, a special edition of The New York Times’ Magazine that tried to focus readers’ attention upon the continuing legacies of race slavery in American life. Legislators in several states have since passed laws to ban it from school curriculums, along with the teaching of Critical Race Theory—or CRT—a set of premises developed by legal scholars in the 1990s to interpret America’s institutions in the context of race and civil rights.
In this four-part course, University of Maryland historian Richard Bell will take us back to basics. We’ll push past the headlines and talk candidly about what the 1619 Project says and doesn’t say, and what CRT means for the teaching of American history. To do so, we will get as close as we can to the subjects—like the American Revolution, the Constitution, Abraham Lincoln, and Reconstruction—around which so many of these debates have swirled.

Facilitator: Rick Bell, Ph.D. a new SPICE instructor is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of the book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. He has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award and the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He serves as a Trustee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

SPICE Policies:
All SPICE courses must be registered for and paid for in their entirety. Due to a new MD sales tax regulation, we are now required to charge 6% sales tax on all courses delivered electronically. Once it is safe to hold our courses in person, we will cease having to collect sales tax.

Until otherwise noted, all SPICE courses for January-June 2022 will be presented on Zoom. If you are unable to attend a session, most SPICE courses will be recorded for your convenience.

SPICE fees are per head, not per household, with a 50% off fee for second registrants within the same household.

A minimum of 15 enrollees per course are required in order to hold the course. If a course must be canceled, those registered will be notified and a SPICE credit will be issued.

Registration Information:
Reservations may be made via email to Sherri Bell, sboxerbell@gmail.com, or by telephone to Sherri Bell, SPICE Chair at 410-303-2483.
Payment may be made in one of three ways:
1. A check may be mailed to: Sherri Bell, 1 Clifton Court, Pikesville, MD 21208
Your check should be made payable to Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation with SPICE and the course name written on the memo line.
2. You may use a credit card. Please note that the synagogue charges a 3.1% credit card use convenience fee.
3. You may have the course billed to your synagogue account if you are a member.

Thank you for your ongoing support of our SPICE programs. Your patronage allows us to continue to seek out highly reputed facilitators who are able to continue to bring you a breadth of topics to enhance your lifelong learning goals.

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