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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... word) a female Civil War horse with an extra body part that turns her into a him! Historic sites also cover up or lie about the sexual orientations of people who made their history if those orientations were gay or lesbian. Another form ...
... words “The Union Must And Shall Be the process, new markers and mon- Preserved” carved into its base. Confederates uments will establish new stories fumed but had to admit that the phrase was Jackson's, Spoken as a toast in the face of ...
... words were probably, “Our Federal Union: it must be preserved.” Albert Boime, The Unveiling of the National Icons (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998), 162-63; Muriel Rukeyser, “Double Ode,” in A Muriel Rukeyser Reader (NY: Norton, 1994) ...
... words. Nevertheless, his office and review board don't have final say. When the marker office replaced a marker stolen from the University of Georgia campus that told how its students had fought in the “War for Southern Independence ...
... Political Influence (NY: Free Press, 1961); Debra Marquart, “No Sister of Mine: A Word from the Great Unwashed on Carrie Chapman Catt,” uncited Web site, Sometimes, who sits on the horse tells a great deal 42 — JAMES W. Lo E WEN.
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 |