Edited by David North and Thomas Mackaman

The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History

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The only comprehensive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project, featuring essays and interviews with prominent scholars of American history and writers for the World Socialist Web Site.

The New York Times’ 1619 Project, launched in August 2019, mobilized vast editorial and financial resources to portray racial conflict as the central driving force of American history. The Project denigrated the democratic content of the American Revolution and of the Civil War, ignored the struggle for labor and civil rights in the twentieth century, and entirely omitted the role of abolitionists, of Frederick Douglass, and of Martin Luther King.

The book elaborates American history through lectures, essays, and interviews with eminent historians Gordon Wood, James M. McPherson, Victoria Bynum, James Oakes, Richard Carwardine, Adolph Reed Jr., Dolores Janiewski, and Clayborne Carson.

These lectures and essays counter today’s deep intellectual, social, and cultural crisis, manifested in the racialist theorizing of the NY Times’ 1619 Project, with the struggle for objective truth upon which the unity of the working class is based. An Afterword examines the reactionary premises of Trump’s “1776 Project.”

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The only comprehensive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project, featuring essays and interviews with prominent scholars of American history and writers for the World Socialist Web Site.

The New York Times’ 1619 Project, launched in August 2019, mobilized vast editorial and financial resources to portray racial conflict as the central driving force of American history. The Project denigrated the democratic content of the American Revolution and of the Civil War,  ignored the struggle for labor and civil rights in the twentieth century, and omitted entirely the role of abolitionists, of Frederick Douglass, and of Martin Luther King.

The book elaborates American history through lectures, essays, and interviews with eminent historians Gordon Wood, James M. McPherson, Victoria Bynum, James Oakes, Richard Carwardine, Adolph Reed Jr., Dolores Janiewski, and Clayborne Carson.

These lectures and essays counter the deep intellectual, social, and cultural crisis of society, manifested in the racialist theorizing of the NY Times’ 1619 Project, with the struggle for objective truth upon which the unity of the working class is based. An Afterword examines the reactionary premises of Trump’s “1776 Project.”

Available in audiobook format from Audible.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: HISTORICAL CRITIQUE OF THE 1619 PROJECT

*The New York Times’ 1619 Project: A Racialist Falsification of American and World History; *Slavery and the American Revolution; *The “Irrepressible Conflict”: Slavery, the Civil War, and America’s Second Revolution; *Race, Class, and Socialism

Part II: INTERVIEWS with eight historians

Part III: POLEMICS

Part IV: HISTORICAL COMMENTARY

Part V: THE CRISIS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’ 1619 PROJECT

AFTERWORD: Trump’s 1776 Travesty

Contains a Foreword, Photo Section, Works Cited, Index

David North has played a leading role in the international socialist movement for forty-five years, and is presently the chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (US). His many published works include The Heritage We Defend; The Crisis of American Democracy; In Defense of Leon Trotsky; The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century; The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left and A Quarter Century of War.

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