Why schools adopted the 1619 filibuster as a curriculum when it was full of historical errors
Many historians have peeked behind the curtain of New York Times prestige and found factual inaccuracies, which some go as far to condemn as"anti-historical." "The 1619 Project is the perfect tool for making angry, anti-American student activists,"
During the fact-checking process, The Times reached out to Leslie Harris, a professor at Northwestern who has specialized knowledge of pre-Civil War American history, to help verify some claims. She told Fox News Digital that despite her objections to the claim that the American Revolution was fought to preserve the institution of slavery, The Times went forward with it anyway.
Two advertisements in a colonial broadside newspaper: one for a cargo of slaves just imported from Africa on the ship Two Brothers, and one for 'Thirty Seasoned Negroes', including a carpenter, a cook and the cook's family.BARI WEISS QUITS NEW YORK TIMES AFTER BULLYING BY COLLEAGUES OVER VIEWS: ‘THEY HAVE CALLED ME A NAZI AND A RACIST’
"When you say racism is built into the DNA of the United States, or that it's America's original sin – [it means] those things are unchanging," he said."And that, to me, is not just ahistorical, it's almost anti-historical." Even Times columnist Bret Stephens challenged the paper's decision to bring their agenda into schools, calling it an"overreach" to try and have the final word on history.
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