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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... erected or restored it. An account from another point of view might be quite different and also more accurate. Americans like to remember only the positive things, and communities like to publicize the great things that happened in them ...
... erected (the right word) a female Civil War horse with an extra body part that turns her into a him! Historic sites also cover up or lie about the sexual orientations of people who made their history if those orientations were gay or ...
... erection or preservation. Therefore visitors must consider both eras when thinking about what the site says. “Hieratic Scale in Historic Monuments” discusses how the nonverbal symbolism on monuments and memorials influences how visitors ...
... erecting markers and monuments play for individuals and society. First, there is the role that stories play in human ... erection. The efforts of the upper class to commemorate their history help them feel better psychologically; the ...
... erected a styrofoam and plaster statue, “Goddess of Liberty,” opposite Mao's portrait in Tiananmen Square to symbolize their aspirations and legitimize their acts. The Chinese government likewise recognized the symbolic power of the God ...
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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 |