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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... lived and worked there, guides prattle on about what the guests ate and the silverware they used. Even at important historic sites like Independence Hall, guides tell charming but inconsequential and ultimately boring anecdotes rather ...
... lived and worked together, sometimes happily. Only an obscure marker in Utah offers any hint of the trade in Indian slaves that started in I 513 and continued at least until the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.” All across America ...
... lived all across America and contested the seizure of their land and homes. The landscape is also superior to American history textbooks in its portrayal of conflicts between workers and owners. I had expected to find that America's ...
... lived. Our tour of historic sites will lead to many places sites affected by such local boosterism. Two different towns in Rhode Island claim the site of Massasoit's Spring, the great “friend of the white man” when the Pilgrims landed ...
... lived or the event had just happened? Another approach is to return to primary sources, making sure to include sources from all acting groups. Learning about when the marker or 36 — JAMES W. Lo EW EN Historic Sites Are Always a Tale of ...
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 |