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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... .... I66 34 Michi GAN Dearborn: Honoring a Segregationist ................................ I7o 35 ohio Delaware: Who Menaced Whom?.......................................... 173 THE SOUTH 36 TexAs Gainesville: “No Nation Rose So White and ...
... honor a man whose political philosophy wreaked havoc on so many lives.” We understand when South Africans, after dethroning white Supremacy, set about reevaluating their statues and museum exhibits honoring white supremacists. Surely ...
... honor Americans who fought against the Vietnam War so long as their downtown monument credits those who fought in the war for being right. It will always seem right for whites to command our governments, law firms, and corporations, so ...
... honored. Georgia sets up four alternatives: A. A military operation, including...conflicts with Native Americans. A meeting of persons, the results of which were of lasting historical importance; c. An artistic creation...[or] ...
... 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 monuments stand with no plaques to balance or ...
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 |