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1619 Project' Founder Doesn't Know When The Civil War Happened

The creator of the revisionist '1619 Project,' Nikole Hannah-Jones, who has long argued that pretty much all complex modern issues – from obesity and traffic jams to capitalism itself – is the result of racism being at America's core, apparently has yet to grasp the simple dates for the Civil War. With the recent release of the much anticipated book formed out of her popular essay series, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, academics and educators have hailed it as laying the groundwork for upending and transforming the way the United States' foundational story of its beginnings as a nation is told, even down to impacting how elementary school teachers present America's founders to school children.

The book assures us that "the inheritance of 1619" – that is slavery, racism and social injustice – "reaches into every part of contemporary American society, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself." Given her outsized influence as a New York Times writer, and now that she's being held up in mainstream media and even establishment academia as an 'expert' on American history, it's not too comforting to know that she doesn't know the basic dates for the Civil War.