1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project

When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted the

New York Times

in August 2019 when it announced its 1619 Project. The

Times

set out to transform history by tracing American institutions, culture, and prosperity to that pirate ship and the exploitation of African Americans that followed. A controversy erupted,

but the

Times

didn’t back down. Instead the authors

ballooned their original magazin...