Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get WrongSimon & Schuster, 2000 - 480 páginas "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. "Lies Across America" is a one-of-a-kind examination of sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. With one hundred entries, drawn from every state, Loewen reveals that: The USS Intrepid, the "feel-good" war museum, celebrates its glorious service in World War II but nowhere mentions the three tours it served in Vietnam. The Jefferson Memorial misquotes from the Declaration of Independence and skews Thomas Jefferson's writings to present this conflicted slaveowner as an outright abolitionist. Abraham Lincoln had been dead for thirty years when his birthplace cabin was built! "Lies Across America" is a reality check for anyone who has ever sought to learn about America through our public sites and markers. Entertaining and enlightening, it is destined to change the way we see our country. |
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... historian Robert Weyeneth , in 1919 " Centralia's American Legion post scheduled an Armistice Day parade with an unusual agenda : destruction of the [ new ] local Iww hall . The plan was an open secret in town for several weeks , but ...
... historian Robert Weyeneth , in 1919 " Centralia's American Legion post scheduled an Armistice Day parade with an unusual agenda : destruction of the [ new ] local Iww hall . The plan was an open secret in town for several weeks , but ...
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... Historian Richard Brown believes as many as 171 people may have been killed in all . This detail is from a larger print done by Frederick Sumner , a Grayson County Unionist , in the spring of 1864. It shows the hanging of the wife of ...
... Historian Richard Brown believes as many as 171 people may have been killed in all . This detail is from a larger print done by Frederick Sumner , a Grayson County Unionist , in the spring of 1864. It shows the hanging of the wife of ...
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... historian , older and more senior at the archives , joined our conversation . Without prompting , he went off on a tirade : " Some historians have written revisionist nonsense , arguing that Sherman never burned Colum- bia . He said he ...
... historian , older and more senior at the archives , joined our conversation . Without prompting , he went off on a tirade : " Some historians have written revisionist nonsense , arguing that Sherman never burned Colum- bia . He said he ...
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In What Ways Were We Warped? | 15 |
Some Functions of Public History | 23 |
THE FAR WEST | 51 |
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