Debunking the 1619 Project

Exposing the Plan to Divide America

By: Mary Grabar

Narrated by: Liisa Ivary

It’s the New “Big Lie”.

According the New York Times’ “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 200 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 listening for every concerned parent, citizen, school board member, and policymaker.

©2021 Mary Grabar (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

Truth Bomb

Grabar provides the proof why the 1919 Project is propaganda, not history. We should not view it as something that should be taught in schools. Historiography 101 teaches that we don't cherry-pick sources to shape our narrative. The narrative should flow out of the research just as we we box-in the answer to an algebraic equation. Poor history (or ideology disguised as history) causes ridiculousness such as the tearing down the statue of Hans Christian Heg, an abolitionist.

Brilliant and balanced

The author pointed out assertions of the 1619 Project and puts them in their proper perspective. in fact, at times it seems like Grabar is pushing those assertions only to next show their exaggerations and misinterpretations. The 1619 Project is debunked and shown to be what it really is, propaganda.

the truth

love this book, it put to shame the fiction book of 1619. more people need to review this to understand the truth

Must read

Anyone interested in who has questions about America’s origin and slavery needs to read this book. It is well researched and is sound information. Many things I learned in this book for the first time, as we are not taught much of this information today.

Excellent

The only question is how do school boards allow the historical inaccuracies of the 1619 Project infiltrate their schools’ curriculum. I have a history degree with an emphasis on Caribbean History. Mary went light on pointing out the 1619 Projects errors but hit on the most important factual inaccuracies. This is an excellent book.

Informative overall. Annoying at first.

The first few chapters could have been 1/4 the length and a lot less snarky. The narrator makes it seem even snarkier with her nasal whine. But once it gets to the actual debunking, the book actually gets informative and useful. I appreciate the last 3/4 of the book. I really could have done without the narrator’s voice though. I would have preferred Siri or Alexa over Liisa.

An easy argument crippled by sensationalism

1619, and all it’s peripheral nonsense, takes only the slightest bit of remedial education to put back in its place, the trash bin.

However, this book is a slog of sensationalized “she did what!?”. The reading sounds more like a gossip column than an actual argument against 1619.

Only worth reading if you have/will read the 1619 book itself

Too petty to fully enjoy. It provides historical information that would’ve been good to have included in the 1619 book. Though I recognize that neither this nor 1619 are intended to be complete historical narratives. Both books focus on the parts of American history that support the authors’ opinions, and in that regard, this book shouldn’t be esteemed as a great rebuttal.

Important to understand both sides

I suggest you first read or listen to The 1619 Project and then do the same with this book. I think it is important to understand both sides.

A Must Read!

Mary Grabar goes way beyond just Debunking the 1619 Project. She finishes the book by demolishing the tenets of the 1619 Project using names, dates and reviews of actual real historians.

It's Grabar's volume of information coming down like a sledgehammer on The 1619 Project's baseless accusations that sets it apart from other books.

Grabar leaves Hannah-Jones no quarter, leaving the polemicist up to her chin in debunked lies and racist rhetoric.