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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... nearby buildings and surrounding elements result from a complex decision-making process that usually involves an artist, the committee that hired the artist, leaders of a sponsoring organization, public officials, and whoever is paying ...
... nearby Tanaina Indians. According to C. H. Merriam, testifying before the U.S. Geographical Board in 1917, “The right of the discoverer to name geographical features has never been questioned,” but Dickey was no discoverer. Native ...
... nearby to the lawn of the county building at Kapaau where it still stands. 3. Other estimates are as high as 2 oo, ooo; much depends on how the question is phrased, which has changed in almost every census. Another 72,000 Native ...
... nearby villages to steal children from more distant villages and sold the captives in San Francisco to pay his debts. Sexual pleasure may also have played a role; writer William Holden suggests Sutter “was fond of the young Indian women ...
... nearby Davis's renaming a street for Sutter, whom they call “an enslaver.” They have disappeared from the historical marker for Sutter's Fort however, even though they built it.” I. He also had a legal wife in Switzerland. 2. Santa ...
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 |