Jake Silverstein

The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”

The 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery. It ended up helping to distort the real history of slavery and the struggle against it.

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

It’s a hashtag, a talking point, a Trump rally riff. The inside story of a New York Times project that launched a year-long culture war.

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

Sean Wilentz wrote a piece opposing the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, but his use of Revolutionary-era newspapers as sources is flawed.

A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.

A collection of resources challenging the notion that the U.S. was built on nothing but injustice and subjugation.