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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... Columbus that features an obsequious Native American kneeling at the feet of a conquistador. On the grounds of the Illinois State Capitol stands Father Menard, again with an Indian subservient to him. Further east, in Plattsburgh, New ...
... become king of Hawaii in 1874, and. kamehameha I with his Roman nose and Roman pose. This copy is in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. In the California State Capitol, Columbus holds up a sphere. LIES ACROSS AMERICA — 55.
... Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain dominates the ground floor rotunda of the California State Capitol. At first glance, for California thus to honor Columbus seems absurd. After all, he never came within several thousand miles of ...
... [Columbus's] visions of marvelous lands beyond the setting sun.” Californians, like Columbus, had journeyed west to find their fortune. The 19th century was the time of “manifest destiny” as the United States conquered Indian nation ...
... Columbus proved it was round.” This statue in Sacramento helps maintain the myth, as does a statue of Columbus holding up a globe at the Ohio State Capitol. Irving himself probably thought it would do no harm. But it does. It invites us ...
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 |