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Lies Across America
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Author: Dr. James Loewen
Narrator: L.J. Ganser
Unabridged: 18 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Published: 09/24/2019
Category: History - United States
Synopsis
From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updatedand more timely than everversion 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 slave 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.