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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... town . Ku Klux Klan demonstrations and threats from local residents persuaded the African Americans to flee . Each of these towns , even tiny Alba and Cumby , has public housing . For many years each public housing department has served ...
... town . Ku Klux Klan demonstrations and threats from local residents persuaded the African Americans to flee . Each of these towns , even tiny Alba and Cumby , has public housing . For many years each public housing department has served ...
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... towns , it might curtail all federal spending in such jurisdictions . After all , every dime spent in a sundown town is by definition not available to African Americans . And to make enforcement easier , perhaps it is time to put signs ...
... towns , it might curtail all federal spending in such jurisdictions . After all , every dime spent in a sundown town is by definition not available to African Americans . And to make enforcement easier , perhaps it is time to put signs ...
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... town —a town which forbade African Americans and Jews to remain overnight . Like traditional sundown towns ( see 37 ) , it even boasted a billboard : in about 1948 according to then - resi- dent Larry Abbott , a sign reading " Gentiles ...
... town —a town which forbade African Americans and Jews to remain overnight . Like traditional sundown towns ( see 37 ) , it even boasted a billboard : in about 1948 according to then - resi- dent Larry Abbott , a sign reading " Gentiles ...
Contenido
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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