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'''The 1619 Project''' is a collection of [[revisionist history]] developed by ''[[The New York Times]]'' to "reframe"<ref>[https://www.si.edu/events/1619 The 1619 Project: A Symposium On Reframing History], [[Smithsonian Institute]]</ref> [[American history]] exclusively around slavery and racism, reading into history what the liberal revisionists can only wish was the reality.  

'''The 1619 Project''' is a collection of [[revisionist history]] developed by ''[[The New York Times]]'' to "reframe"<ref>[https://www.si.edu/events/1619 The 1619 Project: A Symposium On Reframing History], [[Smithsonian Institute]]</ref> [[American history]] exclusively around slavery and racism, reading into history what the liberal revisionists can only wish was the reality.  

The work has been roundly criticized,<ref>Lowry, Rich (January 3, 2020). [https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/1619-project-top-historians-criticize-new-york-times-slavery-feature/ Historians Roast the 1619 Project]. ''National Review''. Retrieved January 5, 2020.</ref> including by prominent historians James Oakes,<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/18/oake-n18.html An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project]</ref> Gordon S. Wood,<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/wood-n28.html An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times’ 1619 Project]</ref> Victoria Bynum,<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/30/bynu-o30.html Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project]</ref> James McPherson,<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/14/mcph-n14.html An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project]</ref> Richard Carwardine,<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/31/carw-d31.html Oxford historian Richard Carwardine on the New York Times’ 1619 Project], ''World Socialist Web Site''</ref> and Sean Wilentz.<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/1619-project-new-york-times-wilentz/605152/ A Matter of Facts]</ref>  Historian Leslie M. Harris has also criticized the project.  Harris was one of the historians who was consulted by the ''Times'' during development of the 1619 Project.  She wrote in Politico that despite her warnings as to the historical inaccuracy of the idea that the 13 colonies went to war to protect slavery, that the ''Times'' was more interested in its narrative than it was with the facts, so it ran with the story anyways.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248 I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.], [[Politico]]</ref>

The 1619 Project is named after the tragic year slaves from Africa first arrived in Virginia, and its premise is that America’s 18th-century founders fought a revolution “to ensure that slavery would continue,” that slavery was part of “the brutality of American capitalism … low-road capitalism … winner-take-all capitalism … racist capitalism.”

==Project History==

==Criticism==

The 1619 Project is named after the tragic year slaves from Africa first arrived in Virginia, and its premise is that America’s 18th-century founders fought a revolution “to ensure that slavery would continue,” that slavery was part of “the brutality of American capitalism … low-road capitalism … winner-take-all capitalism … racist capitalism.”

The work has been roundly criticized,<ref>Lowry, Rich (January 3, 2020). [https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/1619-project-top-historians-criticize-new-york-times-slavery-feature/ Historians Roast the 1619 Project]. ''National Review''. Retrieved January 5, 2020.</ref> including by prominent historians James Oakes,<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/18/oake-n18.html An interview with historian James Oakes of the City University of New York on the New York Times’ 1619 Project]</ref> Gordon S. Wood,<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/wood-n28.html An interview with historian Gordon Wood of Brown University on the New York Times’ 1619 Project]</ref> Victoria Bynum,<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/30/bynu-o30.html Historian Victoria Bynum of Texas State University on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project]</ref> James McPherson of Princeton University,,<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/14/mcph-n14.html An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project]</ref> Richard Carwardine,<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/31/carw-d31.html Oxford historian Richard Carwardine on the New York Times’ 1619 Project], ''World Socialist Web Site''</ref> and Sean Wilentz of Princeton University.<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/1619-project-new-york-times-wilentz/605152/ A Matter of Facts]</ref>  Historian Leslie M. Harris has also criticized the project.  Harris was one of the historians who was consulted by the ''Times'' during development of the 1619 Project.  She wrote in Politico that despite her warnings as to the historical inaccuracy of the idea that the 13 colonies went to war to protect slavery, that the ''Times'' was more interested in its narrative than it was with the facts, so it ran with the story anyways.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248 I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.], [[Politico]]</ref>

However, among other scholarly rebukes, Princeton historian Allen Guelzo criticizes the misrepresentative 1619 Project, finding that it presents:

Another scholarly rebuke was from Princeton historian Allen Guelzo, who criticizes the misrepresentative 1619 Project, finding that it presents:

:"slavery not as a blemish that the Founders grudgingly tolerated with the understanding that it must soon evaporate, but as the prize that the Constitution went out of its way to secure and protect. The Times presents slavery not as a regrettable chapter in the distant past, but as the living, breathing pattern upon which all American social life is based, world without end.”  "The 1619 Project  is not history: it is polemic, born in the imaginations of those whose primary target is capitalism itself and who hope to tarnish capitalism by associating it with slavery." <ref>Marvin Olasky (March 01, 2020) [https://townhall.com/columnists/marvinolasky/2020/03/01/misplaced-blame-n2561964 Misplaced Blame: Using 1619 For Propaganda in 2020] Townhall.com. Retrieved March 05, 2020</ref>

:"slavery not as a blemish that the Founders grudgingly tolerated with the understanding that it must soon evaporate, but as the prize that the Constitution went out of its way to secure and protect. The Times presents slavery not as a regrettable chapter in the distant past, but as the living, breathing pattern upon which all American social life is based, world without end.”  "The 1619 Project  is not history: it is polemic, born in the imaginations of those whose primary target is capitalism itself and who hope to tarnish capitalism by associating it with slavery." <ref>Marvin Olasky (March 01, 2020) [https://townhall.com/columnists/marvinolasky/2020/03/01/misplaced-blame-n2561964 Misplaced Blame: Using 1619 For Propaganda in 2020] Townhall.com. Retrieved March 05, 2020</ref>

Vice President [[Joe Biden]] has said,  

:“I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation, and I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.”

 

Meanwhile in 1975 the future  Vice President [[Joe Biden]] stated,  

:“I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation, and I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.”https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/opinion/joe-biden.html

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