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 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  of the City University of New York,<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  of Brown University,<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 of Texas State University,<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 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> Oxford historian 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>
+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>
 Another scholarly rebuke was from Princeton historian Allen Guelzo, who criticizes the misrepresentative 1619 Project, finding that it presents:

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 [[File:800px-NewYorkTimes.svg.png|right|200px|thumb|The New York Times]]
-'''The 1619 Project''' is an ongoing endeavor of collecting and crafting [[pseudohistory]] developed by ''[[The New York Times]]'', with the goal of "reframing"<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.  The project has received significant praise from [[Marxist]]s, politicians, activists, and journalists, but consistent criticism from historians. The project was founded by New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2019 and saw a surge in popularity in 2020 in the wake of the civil unrest that stemmed from the death of George Floyd. The resulting riots, theft, destruction, and general devastation to several major cities in the U.S. is something Hannah-Jones is proud of, responding that "it would be an honor" when a pundit commented that the rioting in 2020 should be named the "1619 Riots".<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/20/nikole-hannah-jones-endorses-riots-and-toppling-statues-as-a-product-of-the-1619-project/], [[Nikole Hannah-Jones Endorses Riots And Toppling Statues As A Product Of The 1619 Project]]</ref>
+'''The 1619 Project''' is an ongoing endeavor of collecting and crafting [[historical revisionism|revisionist]] [[pseudohistory]] developed by ''[[The New York Times]]'', with the goal of "reframing"<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.  The project has received significant praise from [[Marxist]]s, politicians, activists, and journalists, but consistent criticism from historians. The project was founded by New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2019 and saw a surge in popularity in 2020 in the wake of the civil unrest that stemmed from the death of George Floyd. The resulting riots, theft, destruction, and general devastation to several major cities in the U.S. is something Hannah-Jones is proud of, responding that "it would be an honor" when a pundit commented that the rioting in 2020 should be named the "1619 Riots".<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/20/nikole-hannah-jones-endorses-riots-and-toppling-statues-as-a-product-of-the-1619-project/], [[Nikole Hannah-Jones Endorses Riots And Toppling Statues As A Product Of The 1619 Project]]</ref>
 The 1619 Project is named after the tragic year slaves from Africa first arrived in Virginia, and its claimed 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.”

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	'''The 1619 Project''' is an ongoing endeavor of collecting and crafting [[pseudohistory]] developed by ''[[The New York Times]]'', with the goal of "reframing"<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. The project has received significant praise from [[Marxist]]s, politicians, activists, and journalists, but consistent criticism from historians. The project was founded by New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2019 and saw a surge in popularity in 2020 in the wake of the civil unrest that stemmed from the death of George Floyd. The resulting riots, theft, destruction, and general devastation to several major cities in the U.S. is something Hannah-Jones is proud of, responding that "it would be an honor" when a pundit commented that the rioting in 2020 should be named the "1619 Riots".<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/20/nikole-hannah-jones-endorses-riots-and-toppling-statues-as-a-product-of-the-1619-project/], [[Nikole Hannah-Jones Endorses Riots And Toppling Statues As A Product Of The 1619 Project]]</ref>		'''The 1619 Project''' is an ongoing endeavor of collecting and crafting [[pseudohistory]] developed by ''[[The New York Times]]'', with the goal of "reframing"<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. The project has received significant praise from [[Marxist]]s, politicians, activists, and journalists, but consistent criticism from historians. The project was founded by New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2019 and saw a surge in popularity in 2020 in the wake of the civil unrest that stemmed from the death of George Floyd. The resulting riots, theft, destruction, and general devastation to several major cities in the U.S. is something Hannah-Jones is proud of, responding that "it would be an honor" when a pundit commented that the rioting in 2020 should be named the "1619 Riots".<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/20/nikole-hannah-jones-endorses-riots-and-toppling-statues-as-a-product-of-the-1619-project/], [[Nikole Hannah-Jones Endorses Riots And Toppling Statues As A Product Of The 1619 Project]]</ref>

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 [[File:800px-NewYorkTimes.svg.png|right|200px|thumb|The New York Times]] [[Psuedohistory]]
-'''The 1619 Project''' is a collection of [[Psuedohistory|psuedohistory]]  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.  The project has received significant praise from [[Marxist]]s, politicians, activists, and journalists, but consistent criticism from historians. The project was founded by New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2019 and saw a surge in popularity in 2020 in the wake of the civil unrest that stemmed from the death of George Floyd. The resulting riots, theft, destruction, and general devastation to several major cities in the U.S. is something Hannah-Jones is proud of, responding that "it would be an honor" when a pundit commented that the rioting in 2020 should be named the "1619 Riots".<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/20/nikole-hannah-jones-endorses-riots-and-toppling-statues-as-a-product-of-the-1619-project/], [[Nikole Hannah-Jones Endorses Riots And Toppling Statues As A Product Of The 1619 Project]]</ref>
+'''The 1619 Project''' is an ongoing endeavor of collecting and crafting [[pseudohistory]] developed by ''[[The New York Times]]'', with the goal of "reframing"<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.  The project has received significant praise from [[Marxist]]s, politicians, activists, and journalists, but consistent criticism from historians. The project was founded by New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2019 and saw a surge in popularity in 2020 in the wake of the civil unrest that stemmed from the death of George Floyd. The resulting riots, theft, destruction, and general devastation to several major cities in the U.S. is something Hannah-Jones is proud of, responding that "it would be an honor" when a pundit commented that the rioting in 2020 should be named the "1619 Riots".<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/20/nikole-hannah-jones-endorses-riots-and-toppling-statues-as-a-product-of-the-1619-project/], [[Nikole Hannah-Jones Endorses Riots And Toppling Statues As A Product Of The 1619 Project]]</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.”
+The 1619 Project is named after the tragic year slaves from Africa first arrived in Virginia, and its claimed 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.”
 In response, President Trump announced the [[1776 Commission]].

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	'''The 1619 Project''' is a collection of pseudohistory 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. The project has received significant praise from [[Marxist]]s, politicians, activists, and journalists, but consistent criticism from historians. The project was founded by New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2019 and saw a surge in popularity in 2020 in the wake of the civil unrest that stemmed from the death of George Floyd. The resulting riots, theft, destruction, and general devastation to several major cities in the U.S. is something Hannah-Jones is proud of, responding that "it would be an honor" when a pundit commented that the rioting in 2020 should be named the "1619 Riots".<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/20/nikole-hannah-jones-endorses-riots-and-toppling-statues-as-a-product-of-the-1619-project/], [[Nikole Hannah-Jones Endorses Riots And Toppling Statues As A Product Of The 1619 Project]]</ref>		'''The 1619 Project''' is a collection of pseudohistory 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. The project has received significant praise from [[Marxist]]s, politicians, activists, and journalists, but consistent criticism from historians. The project was founded by New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2019 and saw a surge in popularity in 2020 in the wake of the civil unrest that stemmed from the death of George Floyd. The resulting riots, theft, destruction, and general devastation to several major cities in the U.S. is something Hannah-Jones is proud of, responding that "it would be an honor" when a pundit commented that the rioting in 2020 should be named the "1619 Riots".<ref>[https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/20/nikole-hannah-jones-endorses-riots-and-toppling-statues-as-a-product-of-the-1619-project/], [[Nikole Hannah-Jones Endorses Riots And Toppling Statues As A Product Of The 1619 Project]]</ref>