History is a harsh mistress when trifled with. Newspaper writers and editors make a profession of turning the present into history, and they acknowledge the dignity of facts with every correction appended to the bottom of their stories. Yet over the last year, the editors of The New York Times’ and Pulitzer Center’s “1619 Project” rejected corrections—save a modest one after receiving criticism from several quarters—to fix factual inaccuracies in this Project. Now history has come to call.