Top Historians Slam NYT ‘1619 Project’ As It Infiltrates Public School Curriculum

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Top Historians Slam NYT ‘1619 Project’ As It Infiltrates Public School Curriculum
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Shelby Talcott
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November 30, 2019 2:41 PM ET

    Multiple historians slammed The New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project,” which aims to “reframe” American history.

    The historians noted they were not consulted about the project, and each provided historical evidence combating The NYT’s claims.

    The project has already made its way into the public school curriculum in some areas.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/30/historians-new-york-times-1619/

[Fishrrman]

This "project" has nothing to do with teaching actual history to anyone.

It has much to do with re-writing history to fabricate their own agenda.

Winston Smith... please pick up the nearest red courtesy phone... your talents are requested at the NY times...

[thackney]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/new-york-times-1619-project-distorts-history-of-slavery/

...There are all sorts of things you can reasonably say about the juxtaposition of our ideals and slavery — that our founders were conflicted and hypocritical; that our ideals were incompletely realized and would remain so for a very long time, stretching deep into the 20th century; that our compromise with slavery significantly vitiated the force of our founding principles.

But to portray the American experiment as all about slavery is perverse. The influence of this twisted view appears in the distortions, both subtle and blatant, in the 1619 essay by Hannah-Jones.

It’s worth delving into these in some detail. They reveal what makes the 1619 project not just an an effort to shine a light on a terrible part of our past but a much more ambitious, ideologically driven attempt to redefine our history....