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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... World Wide Web are listed by title when appropriate, URL, and date accessed; if a URL is too long for one line, it wraps to the next line without a hyphen, to avoid ambiguity. PHOTO CREDITS Leon Waters, 23; James W. Loewen, 34, 39, 46 ...
... world. My sister and I needed to unlearn the myths we were learning in school, but the historic sites we visited only amplified them and taught us new ones. My most recent book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, told how American history as ...
... world-famous for exactly one incident—the Scottsboro Case (52)—but although downtown Scottsboro boasts four historical markers, none mention the Scottsboro Case. “Pay attention to what they tell you to forget,” poet Muriel Rukeyser once ...
... World War I or Vietnam? Why did the 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 ...
... world's largest monument (55). Even lowly historical markers can “put a town on the map”—I know of two different small towns whose residents hijacked and hid their only marker when they learned that the state threatened to remove it ...
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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 |