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. In addition, this book depended upon literally hundreds of citizens across the United States who sent me ideas, gave me information about historic sites in their locales, and otherwise ...
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong James W. Loewen. Contents In What Ways Were We Warped ... Historic Sites ............................................................ 29 Historic Sites are Always a Tale of Two Eras ...
... historic marker and monument. Maybe yours did, too. Dad thought it was “good ... sites we visited only amplified them and taught us new ones. My most recent ... historic ships, by the names we give to places, and on roadside historical ...
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong James W. Loewen. Pittsburg, Texas. It must be true—an impressive-looking Texas state historical marker says so! Meanwhile, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island all claim the first use of anesthesia ...
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong James W. Loewen. derogatory. According to these histories on the landscape Indians ... Historic sites also cover up or lie about the sexual orientations of people who made their history if those ...
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 |