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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... markers. This book examines the history that some of these places tell and the processes by which they come forward to tell it. Markers, monuments, and preserved historic sites usually result from local initiative. Typically a private ...
... markers in Brunswick, Georgia, and Brunswick County, Virginia, battle over where Brunswick stew was born. A more important result is racism. People who put up markers and monuments and preserve historic houses are usually pillars of the ...
... historic events that happened there. Guides almost always avoid negative or controversial facts, and most monuments, markers, and historic sites omit any blemishes that might taint the heroes they commemorate, making them larger and ...
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong James W. Loewen. even credited him with ... monuments claim. I have watched tourists grow passive while guides tell them ... markers, none mention the Scottsboro Case. “Pay attention to what they tell ...
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong James W. Loewen. The thoughtful visitor can learn to read between the lines of historical markers however, and deconstruct the imagery on historic monuments. Then these sites divulge important insights ...
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 |