Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get WrongSimon and Schuster, 2007 M10 16 - 464 páginas From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, the second myth-busting history book which focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies that can be found at 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 sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. With entries drawn from each of the fifty states, Loewen reveals that:
Lies Across America is a reality check for anyone who has ever sought to learn about America through the nation’s public sites and markers. Entertaining and enlightening, it is destined to change the way American readers see their country. |
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Contenido
In What Ways Were We Warped? | 1 |
Some Functions of Public History 11 The Sociology of Historic Sites | 15 |
Historic Sites Are Always a Tale of Two Eras | 22 |
Hieratic Scale in Historic Monuments | 29 |
The Tallest Mountain The Silliest Naming | 37 |
King Kamehameha I The Roman | 40 |
The Flat Earth Myth on the West Coast | 43 |
Exploiting vs Exterminating the Natives | 48 |
If Russia Can Do It Why Cant We? | 219 |
Confining Helen Keller Under House Arrest | 223 |
Famous Everywhere but at Home | 225 |
Remember Fort Pillow | 229 |
Forrest Rested Here | 237 |
A Confederatekkk Shrine Encounters 54 Turbulence 241 florida Near Cedar Key The Missing Town of Rosewood | 246 |
The Beech Island Agricultural Club Was Hardly What the Marker Implies | 248 |
To the Loyal Slaves | 252 |
China Beach Leaves Out the Bad Parts | 53 |
Killing a Man Is Not News | 56 |
Dont Discover Til You See the Eyes of the Whites | 60 |
No Communists Here | 62 |
Using Nationalism to Redefine a Troublesome Statue | 63 |
What We Know and What We Dont Know About Rock Art | 67 |
Dont Criticize Big Brother | 70 |
Circle the Wagons Boys Its Tourist Season | 75 |
Bad Things Happen in the Passive Voice | 79 |
Calling Native Americans Bad Names | 85 |
No Confederate Dead? No Problem Invent Them | 88 |
A Woman Shoulda Done It | 94 |
Tall Tales in the West | 96 |
Licking the Corporate Hand That Feeds You | 99 |
The Footloose Statue | 105 |
The Oklahoma State History Museum Confederate Room Tells No History | 109 |
Which Came First Wilderness or Civilization? | 112 |
No Lesbians on the Landscape | 113 |
American Indians Only Roved for About a Hundred Years 116 north dakota Devils Lake The Devil Is Winning Six to One | 119 |
Serving the Cause of Humanity | 122 |
Red Men Only No Indians Allowed | 130 |
Domesticating Mark Twain | 134 |
Not the First Auto | 137 |
Americas Most Toppled Monument | 138 |
Coming into Indiana Minus a Body Part | 143 |
The Invisible Empire Remains Invisible | 147 |
Putting the He in Hero | 150 |
Abraham Lincolns Birthplace Cabin Built Thirty Years after His Death | 152 |
Honoring a Segregationist | 156 |
Who Menaced Whom? | 159 |
No Nation Rose So White and Fair None Fell So Free of Crime | 163 |
The Only Honest Sundown Town in the United States | 168 |
It Never Got Off the Ground | 172 |
The Real War Will Never Get into the War Museums | 174 |
This Building Used to Be a Hardware Store 181 41 arkansas Little Rock Men Make History Women Make Wives | 183 |
Suppressing a Slave Revolt for the Second Time | 189 |
Mystifying the Colfax Riot and Lying About Reconstruction | 193 |
The White League Begins to Take a Beating | 197 |
The Toppled Darky | 203 |
Let Us Now Praise Famous Thieves | 210 |
A Black College Celebrates White Racists | 214 |
Who Burned Columbia? | 259 |
The Last Major Confederate Offensive of the Civil War | 268 |
The Invisible Slave Trade | 270 |
The Clash of the Martyrs | 274 |
One of the Great Female Spies of All Times | 277 |
Slavery and Redemption | 282 |
The Liberation of Richmond | 284 |
Abraham Lincoln Walks Through Richmond 290 virginia Appomattox Getting Even the Numbers Wrong | 297 |
A Sign of Good Breeding | 300 |
Is California West of the Alleghenies? | 305 |
Juxtaposing Quotations to Misrepresent a Founding Father | 307 |
No History to Tell | 313 |
The Reverse Underground Railroad | 326 |
Telling Amusing Incidents for the Tourists | 332 |
George Washingtons Desperate Prayer | 337 |
Youre Here to See the House 341 pennsylvania Gettysburg South Carolina Defines the Civil War in 1965 | 346 |
Remember the Splendid Little War Forget the Tawdry Larger Wars | 352 |
Celebrating Illegal Submarine Warfare | 356 |
The Pilgrims and Religious Freedom | 358 |
Making Native Americans Look Stupid | 360 |
Which George Washington? | 364 |
John Browns Plaque Puts Blacks at the Bottom | 365 |
The Union League Club Traitors to Their Own Cause | 369 |
Selective Memory at uss Intrepid | 379 |
Omitting the Towns Continuing Claim to Fame | 383 |
The Problem of the Common | 388 |
Celebrating Genocide | 390 |
Shards of Minstrelsy on a FarNorth Campus | 394 |
Local History Wars | 399 |
Effective Political Leader | 402 |
Settlement Means Fewer People | 405 |
Fighting Over the Good Indian | 407 |
At Last An Accurate Marker | 411 |
Snowplow Revisionism | 412 |
Getting into a Dialogue with the Landscape | 416 |
APPENDICES a Selecting the Sites | 424 |
b Ten Questions to Ask at a Historic Site | 428 |
Twenty Candidates for Toppling | 429 |
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