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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... capitol in Austin. Elsewhere a lumberman donated a monument of three loggers in Bangor, Maine; a bronze garment worker toils at his sewing machine on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan; and granite workers in Barre, Vermont, have memorialized ...
... Capitol containing phrases that some returning veterans from that war would have protested bitterly in 1899 (25). The United States was sending aid and military advisors all over the globe to help other nations stop Communism in 1948 ...
... capitol. Immediately, neo-Confederates condemned him for what they called a “heritage violation.” Folsom had no problem with the Confederate flag flying from the First White House of the Confederacy across the street, where its presence ...
... Capitol stands Father Menard, again with an Indian subservient to him. Further east, in Plattsburgh, New York, Samuel de Champlain stands on a pedestal, towering above a kneeling Native. This monument exemplifies European cultural ...
... Capitol in Des Moines are these three figures entitled “The Pioneers.” According to a clipping that probably dates to the monument's dedication in 1892, the triad represents a “father and son guided by a friendly Indian, in search of a ...
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 |