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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... Southern states secede? Why do men (and not women) rule? Why did this man rule? These are not easy questions—scholars have written whole books wrestling with them. Most monuments and markers ignore them and proclaim flatly, “Whatever ...
... southern Utah, in itself the landscape reveals nothing of what happened at the site more than a century earlier. The story Mountain in Georgia is an obvious example, visited by tourists. These four stools and a portion of the counter. is ...
... Southern whites today to emulate or even learn about white Southerners who enlisted in the Union armies or fought for black rights during Reconstruction, so long as every Southern courthouse town boasts a monument conflating the ...
... Southern Independence,” they rewrote it to read “Civil War,” which the conflict is commonly called. A neo-Confederate historian at the university stimulated his students to raise such a storm of protest that “We had to retreat and call ...
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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 |