The 1619 Project (in the New York Times Magazine)

[David Lockmiller]

George Will wrote in his Washington Post column criticizing the award of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times for her “1619 Project” work:

Last August, an entire Times Sunday magazine was devoted to the multiauthor “1619 Project,” whose proposition — subsequently developed in many other articles and multimedia content, and turned into a curriculum for schools — is that the nation’s real founding was the arrival of 20 slaves in Virginia in 1619: The nation is about racism. Because the Times ignored today’s most eminent relevant scholars — e.g., Brown University’s Gordon Wood, Princeton’s James McPherson and Sean Wilentz and Allen Guelzo, City University of New York’s James Oakes, Columbia’s Barbara Fields — the project’s hectoring tone and ideological ax-grinding are unsurprising.

These "eminent relevant scholars" had written previously to the New York Times critically objecting to The 1619 Project scholarship as follows:

"We ask that The Times, according to its own high standards of accuracy and truth, issue prominent corrections of all the errors and distortions presented in The 1619 Project. We also ask for the removal of these mistakes from any materials destined for use in schools, as well as in all further publications, including books bearing the name of The New York Times. We ask finally that The Times reveal fully the process through which the historical materials were and continue to be assembled, checked and authenticated."

Now, I guess that we on the Lincoln Discussion Symposium will just have to wait to see when "the other shoe will drop."

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(05-08-2020 01:21 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  David, I second Gene.

Thank you, Roger. And, thank you for the Lincoln Discussion Symposium.