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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 65
... North Elba: John Brown's Plaque Puts Blacks at the Bottom!... 390 New York Manhattan: The Union League Club: Traitors to Their Own Cause ..................................................................... 394 NEw York Manhattan: Selective ...
... plaques in the entry halls of state capitols. Although few writers have commented on most of these monuments and markers, they too make a difference because they represent the thousands of other historic sites all across America that ...
... plaque to building, marker to monument, has become the city's number one tourist attraction; it has been joined by a Women's Heritage Trail, Black Heritage Trail, Literary Trail, and Historical Map of Lesbian and Gay Boston, seeking ...
... plaque on the side of a building helps set this anti-problematic tone, for it speaks with authority, implying that the community agreed at some point that its message was not only incontestable but also important enough to be on ...
... plaque offers something to see, a way to connect with the event. To its credit, Greensboro, North Carolina, maintains a marker at the site of the historic sit-in by African American college students at its downtown Woolworth's lunch ...
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get Wrong James W. Loewen Vista previa limitada - 2007 |