Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-330) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / David North -- The New York Times' 1619 Project: a racialist falsification of American and world history / Niles Niemuth, Thomas Mackaman, and David North -- Slavery and the American Revolution / Thomas Mackaman -- The "irrepressible conflict": slavery, the Civil War, and America's second revolution / Eric London --Race, class, and socialsim / Joseph Kishore -- Interviews. Victoria Bynum ; James McPherson ; James Oakes ; Gordon Wood ; Adolph Reed Jr. ; Richard Carwardine ; Clayborne Carson ; Dolores Janiewski -- An analysis of the New York Times' reply to five historians / Eric London and David North -- Historian Gordon Wood responds to the New York Times' defense of the 1619 Project / Gordon Wood -- A historian's critique of the 1619 Project / Victoria Bynum -- A reply to the American Historical Review's defense of the 1619 Project / Thomas Mackaman and David North -- Hands off the monuments to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Grant! / Niles Niemuth and Thomas Mackaman -- The second assassination of Abraham Lincoln / Niles Niemuth and David North -- July 4, 1776 in world history / David North -- Lincoln and the tragedy of the Dakota 38 / Renae Cassimeda -- Martin Luther King Jr. and the fight for social equality / Niles Niemuth and Thomas Mackaman -- Bernard Bailyn, historian of American colonial and revolutionary periods, 1922-2020 / Thomas Mackaman -- Race theory and the Holocaust / Eric London and David North -- Nikole Hannah-Jones, Shell Oil, and mass killings in Africa / TreĢvon Austin, Bill Van Auken, and David North -- An embarrassing Pulitzer Prize for personal commentary / Thomas Mackaman and David North -- New York Times ignored objections raised by 1619 Project fact-checker / Eric London and Thomas Mackaman -- Jake Silverstein slithers away from the central 1619 fabrication / Thomas Mackaman -- The Times decides that 1619 was not the year of America's "true founding" / Thomas Mackaman and David North -- Factional warfare erupts at the Times / Thomas Mackaman and David North -- It is all just a metaphor: the Times attempts yet another desperate defense / Thomas Mackaman and David North -- Afterword: Trump's 1776 travesty / Tom Carter.
Summary:
"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. By denigrating the democratic content of the American Revolution and of the Civil War, it sought to erode democratic consciousness and to undermine the common struggle of the working class of all ethnic backgrounds against staggering social inequality. The book includes the World Socialist Web Site refutation of the 1619 Project, interviews with eight right leading historians, a lecture series on American history, and a record of the controversy"-- Provided by publisher.
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