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Can the story of America be told by two vessels? By James Traub In 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project, the conservative scholar Peter W. Wood made the case that 1620 was in fact America’s founding moment—not the arrival of the slave ship but the signing of the Mayflower Compact. Reynolds’s response is, in effect: No, it was both. Americans were separated at birth, and have remained so ever since. The historian David Hackett Fischer articulated a more intriguing, and certainly less divisive, view in Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989). …
摘自《大西洋月刊》(The Atlantic)2026年8月8日,James Traub。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。