num_pages: 501
description: The definitive refutation of the New York Times 1619 Project this volume includes original essays lectures and interviews with historians. Topics addressed include the complex development of slavery in the New World the American Revolution the sectional crisis over slavery and the Civil War the struggle for social equality in the twentieth century and the class politics of racial identity in the present.The book features interviews with renowned scholars Gordon Wood James M. McPherson James Oakes Victoria Bynum Richard Carwardine Clayborne Carson Adolph Reed Jr. and Dolores Janiewski.This is a powerful resource for college and high school instructorsand a timely response to the 1619 Projectsinterpretation of American history as an endless race struggle between whites and blacks. As Walter Benn Michaels puts it Everyone interested in understanding what actually happened then and whats actually happening now needs to read it.
language: English
title: The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History
publisher: None