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Aug 23 2019
News
The 1619 Project
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THE QUICK FACTS
On Sunday, August 18th, the New York Times Magazine published the print edition of its latest major initiative, The 1619 Project. The project observes the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. The project’s self- Abridge News
Aug 22 2019
News
The 1619 Project
“The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.” (New York Times)
The
The Flip Side
Jan 10 2022
Analysis
The 1619 False-History Project
Imagine a Native American history curriculum that focused entirely on four massacres of Natives by whites — beginning with the first encounter between Spanish conquistadores and the Inca emperor Atahualpa and culminating with Wounded Knee — and never touched on American Indian life before 1491, the many Native military victories, or the roughly 5.2 million Natives alive in the U.S. today.
National Review (News)
Jan 03 2020
Opinion
Historians Roast the 1619 Project
The dissenting historians are performing an important public service by making the dishonesty of The New York Times Magazine’s feature a matter of record. The reviews of the 1619 Project are in.
It is “a very unbalanced, one-sided account.” It is “wrong in so many ways.” It is “not only ahistorical,” but “actually anti-historical.” It is “a tendentious and partial reading of American
Rich Lowry
Jan 31 2023
Opinion
Hulu's 1619 Project Docuseries Peddles False History
The New York Times' 1619 Project selected Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, as a filming location for its new Hulu docuseries. In doing so, creator Nikole Hannah-Jones sought to bolster her project's most troublesome claim—the assertion that British overtures toward emancipation impelled the American colonists into revolution, ultimately securing an independent United States.
In the past
Reason
Sep 21 2020
Analysis
Down the 1619 Project’s Memory Hole
The history of the American Revolution isn’t the only thing the New York Times is revising through its 1619 Project. The “paper of record” has also taken to quietly altering the published text of the project itself after one of its claims came under intense criticism.
When the 1619 Project went to print in August 2019 as a special edition of the New York Times Magazine, the newspaper
Quillette
Aug 29 2019
Opinion
‘The 1619 Project’ Hurts Blacks
The New York Times recently released a special 100-page edition of its Sunday magazine arguing that slavery has left an indelible mark on the soul of our nation and that its legacy remains the principal cause of inequities between races. Titled “The 1619 Project” (referencing the arrival of the first black slaves, 400 years ago), the initiative is designed to show that whites have always been
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
May 22 2021
Opinion
Why Conservatives Want to Cancel the 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning Black journalist. She is also one of the developers of the 1619 Project, a journalistic examination of slavery’s role in shaping the American present. Last year, that work won her a Pulitzer Prize. Now it appears to have cost her a tenured chair at the University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism.
The Atlantic
May 07 2020
Opinion
The 1619 Project Wins a Pulitzer Prize for Agitprop
Maybe this deserves a prize, but not one for honest history.
Journalism and academia are supposed to honor, as their highest value, the fearless pursuit of truth. If you tried to parody the sad decline of prestige awards in those fields into an ideologically blinkered self-congratulatory echo chamber for progressive agitprop, it would be difficult to find a more on-the-nose example than
National Review (News)
Oct 07 2019
Opinion
The Flagrant Distortions and Subtle Lies of the ‘1619 Project’
Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t remotely honest in her lead 1619 essay.
I wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago about the long history of slavery around the world, since the “1619 Project” pointedly ignored this history.
My argument was that, no matter how horrific slavery was on these shores, it’s a mistake to say that we were exceptional because of slavery.
I was struck by a
Rich Lowry