Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get Wrong
A American History, Historical, Museology book. It is not too much to say that the blacks in Georgia and...
From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, the second myth-busting history book which focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies that can be found at 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 sites...
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- ISBN: 9780743296298 / 0
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Socially, segregation labeled African Americans as less than human; the term boy itself, applied to the Scottsboro defendants even as they became elderly, implied that they were less than men. James W. Loewen, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong Baptist minister and inventor Burrell Cannon (18481922) led some Pittsburg investors to establish the Ezekiel Airship Company and build a craft described in the Biblical book of Ezekiel. The ship had large fabric-covered wings powered by an engine that turned four sets of paddles. It was built in a nearby machine shop and was briefly airborne at this site late in 1902, a year before the Wright brothers first flew. Enroute to the St. Louis Worlds Fair in 1904, the airship was destroyed by a storm. A second model crashed and the Rev. Cannon gave up the... Or guides might initiate a discussion of slave names. Many owners insisted on the right to name their newborn slavesrather than allowing their parents this pleasureand then deliberately gave them demeaning names or names that ironically invoked godlike figures from antiquity. George Washington, for instance, used Hercules, Paris-boy, Sambo, Sucky, Flukey, Doll, Suck Bass, Caesar, and Cupid. Most slaves received no last names. Guides could ask visitors to imagine the self-respect of black children under these conditions. James W. Loewen, Lies Across...
no one Brilliant!This book could be used in conjunction with a US high school history textbook. It covers almost everything that isn't covered normally. I loved how he focused on the South and their deification of the Confederacy. I am also sick of this glorification. It left me thinking the North probably would have been better off if they... Lies of omission would be a better title. I found this book to be a little disappointing. Perhaps it's my fault for misinterpreting the subject matter. I had assumed it dealt with information that was undeniably wrong or untrue. Presenting things inaccurate in fact rather than too concise or limited in scope.The majority of the entries...
