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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... LAND Block Island: “Settlement” Means Fewer People! ............ 436 94 RHod E is LAND Warren and Barrington: Fighting over the “Good Indian” .. 438 95 MAINE Bar Harbor. At Last – An Accurate Marker ........................... 442 ...
... land, because we were stronger, and there were more of us than there were of you, and because we had cannons and Gatling guns....And after we did all this we carved up this mountain, the dwelling place of your spirits, and put our four ...
... land and homes. The landscape is also superior to American history textbooks in its portrayal of conflicts between workers and owners. I had expected to find that America's rather bloody history of strikes and strikebreaking would be ...
... land. Thus a tale that arouses pride—with all its synonyms— in one Vermonter may offend and alienate another. Yale professor Robin Winks has criticized historical markers across America as “inert, pointless exercises in the most obscure ...
... land at the courthouse or city hall implies that the community is united in the sentiments they express. People who do not share their sentiments and would not seek them out in cemeteries or parks will see them and presumably be ...
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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 |