Something strange is going on with The New York Times and its 1619 Project.

By now, you’ve probably heard of the 1619 Project. It ­began as a special issue of the Times’ Sunday magazine to mark the 400th anniversary of African slaves being brought to the Jamestown colonies. But it’s become a multiplatform, multimedia moveable feast with saturation coverage and promotion. Oprah Winfrey is going to ­develop it for film and television. It’s being incorporated into curricula from grade schools to universities through the Pulitzer Center. Not surprisingly, it won a Pulitzer Prize (the center and the prize are unrelated). Or rather, the lead author and ­director of the project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, won in the commentary category.

It was a huge cultural event for journalism and a huge journalistic event in the culture. Critics and fans alike agree that it was agenda-setting in unprecedented ways.

Which is why it is so odd that Hannah-Jones and the Times are quietly taking back the project’s most controversial claim: that 1619, not 1776, was America’s “true founding.”

Here’s what appears to be ­going on.

President Trump recently ­attacked the 1619 Project as representative of the left-wing, ­anti-American bias he says is taught in our schools.

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