If real jouranlists did the research, real historians would not have been excluded.

I have read a bit of Du Bois. He was not trying to promote a shallow narrative. There's a reason he became a communist—he saw the connection between capitalism and racism.

I have read enough of Hannah-Jones' work to know she's a race reductionist, so I skipped the 1619 Project. Life is short. Have you read any of the criticism? It is written by people like Wilentz who have read the 1619 Project and who know the history better than the people Hannah-Jones chose.