While different academics and journalists have criticized the 1619 Project since its release last year, the 1776 project represents one of the largest coordinated challenges to the New York Times's narrative.
The 1776 project will promote a series of essays and educational resources that provide an "Aspirational and inspirational alternative" to the Times's narrative.
"People are inspired to achieve when they're given victories that are possible, not always showering them with injuries to be avoided," Woodson said alongside partners at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The fatalistic narrative of the 1619 Project, which is already taught in "Thousands of classrooms" across the country, according to the partnering Pulitzer Center, deprives African Americans of the agency to improve their lives, Woodson said.
The 1776 project will promote success stories designed to counter the message of 1619, such as "Slaves who became millionaires through entrepreneurial determination" or who went on to buy the "Plantations on which they once worked," Woodson explains on the group's website.
1776 is not the first coordinated effort to critique the 1619 Project.
Among the 1619 Project's inaccuracies, the historians argued the Times should correct the claim that the Revolutionary War was fought to "Ensure that slavery would continue." In a previous interview, McPherson, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his writings about the Civil War, said the 1619 Project is a "Very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery." In November, Wood said he was surprised the 1619 Project has the "Authority of the New York Times behind it" given the project is "So wrong in so many ways."
Woodson says he hopes 1776 will be able to "Counter the false history that the 1619 Project espouses and has disseminated as a school curriculum."
https://freebeacon.com/issues/new-1776-project-aims-to-counter-lethal-narrative-of-1619-project/
The 1776 project will promote a series of essays and educational resources that provide an "Aspirational and inspirational alternative" to the Times's narrative.
"People are inspired to achieve when they're given victories that are possible, not always showering them with injuries to be avoided," Woodson said alongside partners at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The fatalistic narrative of the 1619 Project, which is already taught in "Thousands of classrooms" across the country, according to the partnering Pulitzer Center, deprives African Americans of the agency to improve their lives, Woodson said.
The 1776 project will promote success stories designed to counter the message of 1619, such as "Slaves who became millionaires through entrepreneurial determination" or who went on to buy the "Plantations on which they once worked," Woodson explains on the group's website.
1776 is not the first coordinated effort to critique the 1619 Project.
Among the 1619 Project's inaccuracies, the historians argued the Times should correct the claim that the Revolutionary War was fought to "Ensure that slavery would continue." In a previous interview, McPherson, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his writings about the Civil War, said the 1619 Project is a "Very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery." In November, Wood said he was surprised the 1619 Project has the "Authority of the New York Times behind it" given the project is "So wrong in so many ways."
Woodson says he hopes 1776 will be able to "Counter the false history that the 1619 Project espouses and has disseminated as a school curriculum."
https://freebeacon.com/issues/new-1776-project-aims-to-counter-lethal-narrative-of-1619-project/
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