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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... Leader”........................ 43.3 93 RHoDE is LAND Block Island: “Settlement” Means Fewer People! ............ 436 94 RHod E is LAND Warren and Barrington: Fighting over the “Good Indian” .. 438 95 MAINE Bar Harbor. At Last – An ...
... leader and founder of the Ku Klux Klan, in Tennessee. And the white Southerners misguided enough not to be racist are ignored entirely or converted into “good white Southerners” when remembered. Thus Helen Keller's birthplace flies a ...
... 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 historic merit and ...
... leader in the women's movement in the early decades of the twentieth century. Like some other feminists in those years (but not all), she said that women should be allowed to vote because “White supremacy will be strengthened, not ...
... leaders of a sponsoring organization, public officials, and whoever is paying for it all. While pragmatic concerns like money and feasibility enter into these decisions, the result is calculated to make an impression upon the visitor ...
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 |