Republican state legislators move to ban the New York Times’ 1619 Project from schools Republican-controlled state legislators in several states have moved to ban the New York Times’1619 Project from public school instruction. The laws would deny funding to schools that teach the curriculum, which frames all of American history as a struggle between races, and argues, among other things, that the American Revolution was a conspiracy waged by the Founding Fathers to defend slavery from the British monarchy. The State Capitol building in Des Moines, Iowa (Library of Congress/Carol M. Highsmith) The first such legislation was introduced in July of last year in Arkansas, with the support of the state’s fascistic US senator, Tom Cotton, who said in an interview with the