Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get WrongThe New Press, 2010 M09 7 - 480 páginas A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called “jim-dandy pop history,” by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, 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 historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons’ uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials. |
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... Parks and Recreation, 1.44; Hannibal Convention and Visitors Bureau, I 5 of Chicago Sun-Times, 156; National Park Service, 168; Library of Congress, 180, 190, 212, 220, 291; Louisiana Times Picayune, 218; Jessica Murray/Project HIP-HOP ...
... Park, New York, about Roosevelt's mistresses, she told him “the guides are specifically forbidden from talking about this.” Woodrow Wilson's house in Washington, D.C., says nothing negative about the man who segregated the federal ...
... park really make? Who now even recalls who the county or high school was named after? The fact that Edgefield, South Carolina, dedicated a granite monument to veterans for “preserving our freedom and way of life during the Vietnam War ...
... Parks, Recreation, and Historic Sites Division, typescript, 1996), 1–2; W.J.T. Mitchell, ed., Art and the Public Sphere (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1992), 29; Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the ...
... parks. Sasha monuments and markers often simply remember an event and those who died in it, often listing them (and sometimes the living) by name.* Zamani monuments are usually quite different. Not primarily motivated by loss or grief ...
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The Far West | 51 |
Mountains and Plains States | 89 |
The Midwest | 136 |
The South | 177 |
The Atlantic States | 325 |
New England | 408 |
Snowplow Revisionism | 443 |
Getting into a Dialogue with the Landscape | 447 |
Appendices | 455 |
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Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get Wrong James W. Loewen Vista previa limitada - 2007 |