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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... Town in the United States ...... I82 38 Texas Pittsburg. It Never Got Off the Ground .................................. I86 39 Texas Fredericksburg: The Real War Will Never Get into the War Museums .............................
... Town of Rosewood .................. 2.66 souTH caroLINA Beech Island: The Beech Island Agricultural Club Was Hardly What the Marker Implies........................................... 2.68 souTH CARolina Fort Mill. To the Loyal Slaves ...
... Town's Continuing Claim to Fame ... 408 87 MAss AcHusetts Boston: The Problem of the Common ........................ 4I 3 88 MAssachusetts Amherst: Celebrating Genocide ................................. 4 IS 89 MAssachusetts Boston ...
... town to agree that that was America's role in that war or our reason for intervening. And correcting a historical marker whose language and inaccurate history disrespect American Indians, for instance, doesn't send a single Native ...
... town on the map”—I know of two different small towns whose residents hijacked and hid their only marker when they learned that the state threatened to remove it because it was inaccurate. In conclusion, what a community erects on its ...
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 |