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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What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong James W. Loewen. derogatory. According to ... history if those orientations were gay or lesbian. Another form of omission takes ... historian Richard Shenkman asked a tour guide at FDR's family mansion in ...
... According to tradition...” or “According to the legislature...” Visitors can count on the rest of such sentences to be unsubstantiated. Monuments are even less likely than state historical markers to tell or symbolize impartial history ...
... history textbooks leave it out entirely, II percent of the 234 markers that ... historian Francis Jennings calls “the cant of conquest” (see 7, 35, and 68) ... According to Susan Schreiber of the National Trust for Historic Preservation ...
... According to John Mbiti, Kiswahili speakers divide the deceased into two categories: sasha and zamani. The recently ... history is zamani for me. Historical perspective does not always accrue from the passage from sasha to zamani. On the ...
... According to the protesters, the paint symbolizes the blood shed by Native Americans resulting from the conquest of ... history. When Americans put up yet another plaque about Columbus, they are really admitting a failure of 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 |