1620

A Critical Response to the 1619 Project

By: Peter W. Wood

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Peter Wood argues against the flawed interpretation of history found in the New York Times’ 1619 Project and asserts that the true origins of American self-government were enshrined in the Mayflower compact in 1620.

Was America founded on the auction block in Jamestown in 1619 or aboard the Mayflower in 1620? The controversy erupted in August 2019 when the New York Times announced its 1619 Project. The Times set to transform history by asserting that all the laws, material gains, and cultural achievements of Americans are rooted in the exploitation of African Americans. Historians have pushed back, saying that the 1619 Project conjures a false narrative out of racial grievance.

This book sums up what the critics have said and argues that the traditional starting point for the American story - the signing of the Mayflower Compact aboard ship before the Pilgrims set foot in the Massachusetts wilderness - is right. A nation as complex as ours, of course, has many starting points, including the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But if we want to understand where the quintessential ideas of self-government and ordered liberty came from, the deliberate actions of the Mayflower immigrants in 1620 count much more than the near accidental arrival in Virginia 15 months earlier of a Portuguese slave ship commandeered by English pirates.

Schools across the country have already adopted the Times’ radical revision of history as part of their curricula. The stakes are high. Should children be taught that our nation is, to its bone, a 400-year-old system of racist oppression? Or should we teach children that what has always made America exceptional is its pursuit of liberty and justice for all?

©2020 Peter W. Wood (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

REQUIRED reading if you care about education

This book unequivocally eviscerates the arguments of charlatan activist Nicole Hannah-Jones, and exposes the pernicious agenda of Jake Silverstein and the once-great New York Times and the Pulitzer Center.

Wood does so with blistering accuracy and the tale about the many ways that these unforgivably mendacious text are attempting pushed a destructive narrative that infantilizes people of color and attempts to undermine anything of value that existed in the foundation of our country. I am a lifelong proud Democrat, but I was absolutely disgusted by what Jones and the New York Times are attempting to foist upon both the public at large, and more pernicious lie, our children.

If your school system is considering the adoption of this scandalously fallacious 1619 curriculum, send copies of this book to every member of the school board.

Excellent expose of the 1619 propaganda

Bottom line - she herself admits it's only journalism and was never meant to be historical.
Yet she received award after award from the self congratulatory mob, patting themselves on the back.

What are we to believe

I believe that Peter Wood did a great job of separating fact from fiction or as he put it histories facts from a myth. History is the past from which we can learn right from wrong, for without history I do not believe we would no have advanced from knuckle walker on the Savannah plains to where we are today

A reasoned argument from an unreasonable place

I never thought I would write a favorable review for anyone associated with the Heartland Institute (climate change deniers, big tobacco liars), but that's just how off the rails some of the far left ideas have become (and I don't vote GOP). This is a well reasoned argument for what is, and is not, history. It accurately points out the obvious flaws in the 1619 project and the ideological motivations behind it. If you've used your own critical thinking skills to evaluate what you know about the 1619 project, you'll largely be in agreement with the author. If you're willing to continue thinking, make Yascha Mounk's Identity Trap your next book.

Truth triumphs lies (1619 project)

I knew that Hannah-Jones was promoting a leftist agenda. Just a outright lie. That's insult to all Americans.

I am glad Peter Wood choose to call out the lie with truth. So Americans will be missed by lies.

The 1620 book presented with facts that a lot of Americans was familiar with through own research and added layers to it. Wood expounded on areas of Lincoln, slavery, economics of slavery plus others that was taught in the Public schools. More specifically, where Hannah-Jones lied and presented verifiable facts as a strong counter.

I truly enjoyed this book for reasons. I would recommend this everyone.
I look forward to check out more of his works in the future.