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 77
... slavery by visiting most historic sites (72) is trifling compared to the more accurate information that current textbooks provide to high school students. On Reconstruction, that period after the Civil War when the federal government ...
... slavery wing of the Democratic Party. In 1986 officials renamed King County... King County—for civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.! Not even a sheet of letterhead had to be discarded! But even that change wasn't easy; the vote ...
... slavery and does allow an African American a bit part, the monument still conveys white supremacy. Whites built it in 1889, well after the end of Reconstruction, when the United States was pushing African Americans back into second ...
... slavery or might give slaves ideas of freedom. He ordered a feathered helmet encircled by stars instead. The “Statue of Freedom” figure has always been Roman, but if most Americans think she is an Indian, then for practical purposes she ...
... slavery. “I had to lock the Indian men and women together in a large room to prevent them from returning to their ... slaves as the Negro in the south. For a mere trifle you can secure their services for life.” One California Indian ...
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 |