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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... Political Leader”........................ 43.3 93 RHoDE is 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 ...
... 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 them. People don't usually ...
... political philosophy wreaked havoc on so many lives.” We understand when South Africans, after dethroning white Supremacy, set about reevaluating their statues and museum exhibits honoring white supremacists. Surely the United States ...
... political, social, and cultural, as well as educational—that preserving historic sites and erecting markers and monuments play for individuals and society. First, there is the role that stories play in human culture. Human beings live ...
... politics, ultimately all history is local—it happened here. The first woman to win office in the community, the racial desegregation of the school, the town's response to a natural disaster, the most important people and ideas that have ...
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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 |