Dewey Decimal306.3/620973
SynopsisLies to Take Down America, The 1619 Project was launched by the New York Times on August 18, 2019, with a revolutionary aim: Cancel our nation's 1776 founding, based on unalienable God-given rights and the equality of all men. Replace it with the supposed 1619 "true founding" of America as an irredeemable "slavocracy." This poisonous work of fiction is headed to a high school near you. The aim of The 1619 Project is nothing less than to teach young Americans to hate their own country. Mary Grabar, a veteran college teacher and scholar, definitively debunks the historical fantasy concocted by Nikole Hannah-Jones and her collaborators, starting with the vicious and evidence-free claim that Americans declared independence "to protect the institution of slavery." Parents and patriots-all who care about our children, our history, and our nation- must read this book, the desperately needed ammunition in our fight for the Republic. Book jacket., A resounding answer to and rejection of the New York Times' infamous "1619 Project," labeling America as little more than a failed state based on slavery and oppression. A distinguished educator tears into the inaccuracies and misrepresentations, and brings actual American history back into focus. Essential ammunition for concerned parents and educators everywhere!, A resounding answer to and rejection of the New York Times' infamous "1619 Project," labeling America as little more than a failed state based on slavery and oppression. A distinguished educator tears into the inaccuracies and misrepresentations, and brings actual American history back into focus. Essential ammunition for concerned parents and educators everywhere! It's the New "Big Lie" According the New York Times's "1619 Project," America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduction of African slavery into the New World. Ever since then, the "1619 Project" argues, American history has been one long sordid tale of systemic racism. Celebrated historians have debunked this, more than two hundred years of American literature disproves it, parents know it to be false, and yet it is being promoted across America as an integral part of grade school curricula and unquestionable orthodoxy on college campuses. The "1619 Project" is not just bad history, it is a danger to our national life, replacing the idea, goal, and reality of American unity with race-based obsessions that we have seen play out in violence, riots, and the destruction of American monuments--not to mention the wholesale rewriting of America's historical and cultural past. In her new book, Debunking the 1619 Project, scholar Mary Grabar, shows, in dramatic fashion, just how full of flat-out lies, distortions, and noxious propaganda the "1619 Project" really is. It is essential reading for every concerned parent, citizen, school board member, and policymaker.