The New York Times' 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History: Essays and Interviews - Softcover

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In August 2019, the New York Times unveiled its 1619 Project, which denounced the two seminal events in American history: the 1776 revolution that founded the United States, and the Civil War of 1861–65. This new narrative claimed that the rebellion against Britain was a counterrevolution instigated for the purpose of defending slavery, and that the Union forces in the Civil War were led by a president, Abraham Lincoln, who was an inveterate racist.This narrative is comprehensively refuted in the new volume published by Mehring Books. Its essays and lectures, based on meticulous research, expose the 1619 Project’s distortions and misrepresentations of the factual record.Included in the book are interviews with the most renowned scholars and specialists in the history of the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s — Gordon Wood, James M. McPherson, James Oakes, Victoria Bynum, Richard Carwardine, Clayborne Carson, Adolph Reed Jr., and Dolores Janiewski.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 New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History is a major intellectual resource for college and high school instructors who seek to understand the causes of the Revolution and the Civil War, and also to understand why these events have become the subject of contemporary political and ideological conflict.As Professor Walter Benn Michaels puts it, “Everyone interested in understanding what actually happened then and what’s actually happening now needs to read it.”

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