{"id":1015332,"date":"2021-11-15T14:14:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015332"},"modified":"2021-11-15T14:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:14:51","slug":"1619-project-book-panned-by-historians-hits-amazons-bestseller-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1619-project-book-panned-by-historians-hits-amazons-bestseller-list\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20181619 Project\u2019 Book, Panned By Historians, Hits Amazon\u2019s Bestseller List"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F1619-project-book-panned-by-historians-hits-amazons-bestseller-list%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015332&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An expanded book of The New York Times \u201c1619 Project\u201d is already on top of Amazon\u2019s bestseller list before it has been released.<\/p>\n<p>The book, based on the project led by The New York Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, is set to come out Tuesday. The book landed on bestseller lists on Amazon, the world\u2019s largest book retailer, over the weekend as Hannah-Jones travels across the U.S. promoting the book for libraries and schools. As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/bc-us-books-1619-project_n_618fdc4ce4b0ab5f284a161e\">Associated Press<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe 1619 Project\u201d book already has reached the top 100 on the bestseller lists of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/impact\/topic\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a>.com and Barnes &amp;&nbsp;Noble.com. Online seller&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/\">Bookshop.org<\/a>&nbsp;has set up a partnership with the publisher One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, for independent stores such as Reverie Books to donate copies to local libraries, schools, book banks and other local organizations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hannah-Jones\u2019 promotional tour is a mix of bookstores and performing venues, and at least one very personal journey. She will make appearances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Free Library of Philadelphia. She will visit Waterloo West High School in her home state of Iowa, partner with Loyalty Bookstore and Mahogany Books for an event at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington and attend the Chicago Humanities Festival.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She also will speak at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English. Lynsey Burkins, who leads the council\u2019s Build Your Stack initiative, which helps teachers build their classroom libraries, says it was important to reflect a diversity of experiences in the classroom texts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The \u201d1619 Project\u201d was an effort to reframe Americans history and the founding of the United States away from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the arrival of the first slave ship on U.S. shores in 1619. The project has been one of the principle examples of a recent strain of progressive academic theory known as Critical Race Theory.<\/p>\n<p>The project itself was widely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pulitzer-prize-awarded-to-creator-of-widely-derided-1619-project-from-the-new-york-times\">panned<\/a> by historians who alleged that the \u201c1619 Project\u201d lacked nuance and left out much necessary context over the United States past struggle with slavery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution, but existed throughout history,\u201d Pulitzer-Prize winning author James McPherson, professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, said of the \u201c1619 Project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon Wood, professor emeritus at Brown University, said:<\/p>\n<p><em>I read<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expanded book of The New York Times \u201c1619 Project\u201d is already on top of Amazon\u2019s bestseller list before it has been released.The book, based on the project led by The New York Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, is set to come out Tuesday. The book landed on bestseller lists on Amazon, the world\u2019s largest book retailer, over the weekend as Hannah-Jones travels across the U.S. promoting the book for libraries and schools. As the Associated Press reported:\u201cThe 1619 Project\u201d book already has reached the top 100 on the bestseller lists of\u00a0Amazon.com and Barnes &#038;\u00a0Noble.com. Online seller\u00a0Bookshop.org\u00a0has set up a partnership with the publisher One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, for independent stores such as Reverie Books to donate copies to local libraries, schools, book banks and other local organizations.Hannah-Jones\u2019 promotional tour is a mix of bookstores and performing venues, and at least one very personal journey. She will make appearances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Free Library of Philadelphia. She will visit Waterloo West High School in her home state of Iowa, partner with Loyalty Bookstore and Mahogany Books for an event at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington and attend the Chicago Humanities Festival.She also will speak at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English. Lynsey Burkins, who leads the council\u2019s Build Your Stack initiative, which helps teachers build their classroom libraries, says it was important to reflect a diversity of experiences in the classroom texts.The \u201d1619 Project\u201d was an effort to reframe Americans history and the founding of the United States away from the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the arrival of the first slave ship on U.S. shores in 1619. The project has been one of the principle examples of a recent strain of progressive academic theory known as Critical Race Theory.The project itself was widely panned by historians who alleged that the \u201c1619 Project\u201d lacked nuance and left out much necessary context over the United States past struggle with slavery.\u201cI was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution, but existed throughout history,\u201d Pulitzer-Prize winning author James McPherson, professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, said of the \u201c1619 Project.\u201dPulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon Wood, professor emeritus at Brown University, said:I read the first essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones, which alleges that the Revolution occurred primarily because of the Americans\u2019 desire to save their slaves. She claims the British were on the warpath against the slave trade and slavery and that rebellion was the only hope for American slavery. This made the American Revolution out to be like the Civil War, where the South seceded to save and protect slavery, and that the Americans 70 years earlier revolted to protect their institution of slavery. I just couldn\u2019t believe this.I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it\u2019s going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways.James Oakes, Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, slammed two of the project\u2019s central claims: that racism is an uniquely American \u201csin\u201d and slavery is built into the \u201cDNA\u201d of the United States.\u201cThese are really dangerous tropes. They\u2019re not only ahistorical, they\u2019re actually anti-historical,\u201d he said.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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