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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... streets and schools named for them. Longstreet too is just now getting more and kinder treatment on the landscape, including a statue at Gettysburg. In 1948 Minnesota misremembered the Philippine-American War with a beautiful. For years ...
... street named for a controversial person, we continue to honor their actions in our time. We imply to future generations that by today's standards, we judge this person to be worthy of remembrance and emulation. When Americans let biased ...
... street, where its presence was historically appropriate. But the state capitol had flown the flag only since the day in April, 1963, when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy visited the building to meet with Governor George Wallace about ...
... Street from Iolani Palace in Honolulu. An identical statue stands near his birthplace. A third statue, made from molds prepared from the one in Honolulu, stands indoors in the United States Capitol. Eight and one half 54 – JAMES W. LO ...
... Streets in Sacramento stands “Sutter's Fort,” one of the oldest buildings in California, preserved and reconstructed. It comes with a state historic marker: SUTTER'S FORT John Augustus Sutter, born of Swiss parents in Germany, arrived ...
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 |