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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... race , " today Native Americans are rapidly growing in number . In the 1990 census they totaled 2,000,000 . The Red Men are the vanishing race , down to just 28,000 members as of 1998. In 1920 there were more than two Red Men for every ...
... race , " today Native Americans are rapidly growing in number . In the 1990 census they totaled 2,000,000 . The Red Men are the vanishing race , down to just 28,000 members as of 1998. In 1920 there were more than two Red Men for every ...
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... race were not a factor . This probability comes out to considerably less than one in a thousand . We can reject the null hypothesis . Race is involved . Either Ivy Green draws whites overwhelmingly , or the site draws reasonable numbers ...
... race were not a factor . This probability comes out to considerably less than one in a thousand . We can reject the null hypothesis . Race is involved . Either Ivy Green draws whites overwhelmingly , or the site draws reasonable numbers ...
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... racial isolates or mixed - race peoples — people of European , Native , and African descent who have lived by themselves through most periods of American history because they refuse to take part in America's rigid system of racial ...
... racial isolates or mixed - race peoples — people of European , Native , and African descent who have lived by themselves through most periods of American history because they refuse to take part in America's rigid system of racial ...
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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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Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get Wrong James W. Loewen Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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