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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... sides . Instead , they reveal more about when they went up than about the war itself . The rooms have quite different ... side with the label : Lord God of Hosts Be With Us Yet Lest we forget - Lest we forget . One exhibit tells nothing ...
... sides . Instead , they reveal more about when they went up than about the war itself . The rooms have quite different ... side with the label : Lord God of Hosts Be With Us Yet Lest we forget - Lest we forget . One exhibit tells nothing ...
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... side . " It may be hard to believe that more than 40 years after white racists rioted at Central High School , favoring school desegregation could still be the wrong side so far as the Arkansas Portrait Gallery is concerned . But ...
... side . " It may be hard to believe that more than 40 years after white racists rioted at Central High School , favoring school desegregation could still be the wrong side so far as the Arkansas Portrait Gallery is concerned . But ...
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... side we must recognize that , as H. L. Mencken once wrote , " Nobody thinks of himself as a son of a bitch . " Throughout the his- tory of contact between European Americans ( and African Americans ) on one side and Native Americans on ...
... side we must recognize that , as H. L. Mencken once wrote , " Nobody thinks of himself as a son of a bitch . " Throughout the his- tory of contact between European Americans ( and African Americans ) on one side and Native Americans on ...
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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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