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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... William Graham Sumner, Folkways (NY: New American Library, 1940 [1906]), 80. –26– The Sociology of Historic Sites Desperate to cause change in their city and nation, student demonstrators in Beijing in 1989 recognized the power of ...
... William A. Haviland and Marjory W. Power, The Original Vermonters (Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1981), 243. —— 34 — Historic Sites Are Always a Tale of Two Eras Every historic site tells two different stories about two different eras ...
... William Rufus King, vice president under President Franklin Pierce. (The next county to the south was named for Pierce; Washington became a territory during the Pierce administration.) King had been senator from Alabama and like Pierce ...
... William G. Eliot, friend of the escaped slave who was the sculptor's model, the slave in the monument “has grasped the chain as if in the act of breaking it, indicating the historical fact that the slaves took active part in their own ...
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 |