Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get WrongThe New Press, 2019 M09 24 - 497 páginas A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials. |
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... ARKANSAs Grant County. Which Came First, the Statue or the Oppression ... ARKANSAs Little Rock: Men Make History; Women Make Wives ........... 2.O.Q. 43 LouisianA Laplace: Suppressing a Slave Revolt for the Second Time ....... 2O6 44 ...
... ........................ 5 I Arizona ................................ 99 Arkansas ............................. I97 California ............................. 57 Colorado ............................ II C Connecticut ......
... Arkansas emigrants led by Capt. John T. Baker and Capt. Alexander Fancher was attacked while en route to California. This event is known in history as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The monument lists the names of those who were killed ...
... Arkansas to California. These emigrants were hardly diplomatic. Mormons refused to sell them supplies, so they “boasted of what they would do when the army came to set these people straight,” according to Brooks. Mormons claimed that ...
... Arkansas." The Mormon leadership concocted a coverup that blamed the Paiutes, but as the United States established more control over Utah, some Mormon had to be held responsible for the Fancher massacre because too many people knew that ...
Contenido
The Midwest | 136 |
The South | 177 |
The Atlantic States | 325 |
New England | 408 |
Snowplow Revisionism | 443 |
Getting into a Dialogue with the Landscape | 447 |
Appendices | 455 |
Index | 468 |
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Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get Wrong James W. Loewen Vista previa limitada - 2007 |