Summary of Mary Grabar's Debunking the 1619 Project

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Get the Summary of Mary Grabar's Debunking the 1619 Project in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669341321

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 1

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the year America began.

#2

The 1619 Project was created to reframe American history, and its popularity skyrocketed. It inspired the hatred that fueled the riots that would rage through 2020.

#3

The presentation of American history in American schools is completely one-sided, and this has led to widespread anger towards the country.

#4

The story of the Jefferson statue being torn down in Portland, Oregon, goes to show the lengths that some people will go to erase anything that is perceived to be racist.

#5

The mania of renaming everything involving the Confederacy continued after the 2020 riots, and even extended to corporations. A new movement began in the summer of 2020 that demanded white silence is violence.

#6

Nikole Hannah-Jones, a historian and former teacher, claims that The 1619 Project is essential to understanding current events.

#7

The 1619 Project is a threat to the American experiment because it promotes racial division and hatred, and it does so by lying and manipulating historical facts.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The New York Times Magazine published a piece in August 2019 that argued that America’s original sin was born on August 20, 1619, when a ship landed at Point Comfort in Virginia, carrying slaves.

#2

The New York Times changed the narrative of the American exceptionalism by claiming that everything great about