Earlier this year the New York Times (NYT) launched it’s 1619 Project, a series of essays designed to refocus American history with the legacy of slavery at the center of the American narrative. Since its inception, the project has garnered considerable attention and a supplementary education program is in the works for use in schools.
At the same time, the project has been polarizing. Some people feel that the 1619 Project is a well-needed correction to American history which often underplayed the role of slavery. Others feel that the 1619 Project is itself biased, ignoring inconvenient facts of history in order to promote a particular ideology.
This issue heated up when several leading historians criticized the 1619 Project on factual grounds (the NYT has defended their project). Several criticisms were raised.
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