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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... Civil War when the federal government tried to guarantee equal rights for African Americans, the landscape is almost silent; most sites that do mention it present a distorted “Gone With the Wind” version that never happened (44). Little ...
... Civil War, much less any leaning toward the Confederacy. They simply want to see what is reputed to be the world's ... rights during Reconstruction, so long as every Southern courthouse town boasts a monument conflating the Confederate cause ...
... Civil War history from beginning (62) to end (67). To these groups, erecting monuments was a way to continue the Civil War by other means. As a result, to this day those who worked for civil rights in the nineteenth century, like ex ...
... civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.! Not even a sheet of letterhead had to be discarded! But even that change wasn't easy; the vote was six to five. Sometimes change is hard, because reasonable people can differ about the ...
... citizens of the U.S. declared free by his proclamation January I, A.D. 1863. Crouched at Lincoln's feet, his chains ... civil rights. In the words of William G. Eliot, friend of the escaped slave who was the sculptor's model, the slave ...
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 |