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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... Vietnam War entirely—too “political” for its board of directors (85). Omissions such as this can be hard to detect, especially for visitors who come to a site to learn a little history without bringing some knowledge of the site with ...
... Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Monuments and markers provide sacred sites for what sociologist Robert Bellah has called America's “civil religion.” Memorials in particular declare what is worth dying for, which turns out to be mostly the ...
... Vietnam example, it is hard for residents of Edgefield to honor Americans who fought against the Vietnam War so long as their downtown monument credits those who fought in the war for being right. It will always seem right for whites to ...
... Vietnam Veterans Memorial is primarily a sasha monument, albeit on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Over time its zamani function will predominate. 3. A Pike statue is treated in Appendix C. 4. John Mbiti, African Religions and Philosophy ...
... Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall,” in Harriet F. Senie and Sally Webster, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art (NY: Harper Collins, 1992), 74; Mike Teskey, e-mail 9/96; Lee Friedlander, The American Monument (NY: Eakins ...
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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 |