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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... Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution, for the privileges of Senior Research Fellow; and Catholic University of America, for adjunct faculty privileges at its Life Cycle Institute. NOTE At the end of each entry, a ...
... Museum Confederate Room Tells No History ............................................. I2.3 KANSAS Gardner. Which Came First, Wilderness or Civilization?.......... I 26 NEBRASKA Red Cloud: No Lesbians on the Landscape ..............
... museums, which present war without anguish and instead focus genially on its technology. USS Intrepid in New York City leaves out the Vietnam War entirely—too “political” for its board of directors (85). Omissions such as this can be ...
... museums in the United States rarely depict Native American farms, frame houses, or schools compared to the enormous ... Museum denies that mining today causes any environmental damage. And so it goes, from sea to shining sea. These ...
... museum exhibits honoring white supremacists. Surely the United States—like Germany, Russia, or South Africa—needs to rethink its past and reassess how it commemorates that past in stone. Surely we don't want to be people of the lie ...
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 |