Lies Across America
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
The New Press · Print & ebook · September 24, 2019
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." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans 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.
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- Who it’s for
- Loewen examines how historic sites across America preserve—and distort—the past.
- Genres
- Historiography, U.S. History, Landmarks & Monuments
- Published
- The New Press, September 24, 2019
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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." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans 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.
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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.
Reading the Landscape
Loewen examines how historic sites across America preserve—and distort—the past.
Come here for
- A sharper way to read the stories monuments and markers tell
- American history where the landscape becomes part of the argument
Expect
- Myths and omissions around monuments, landmarks, and historical sites
- A lively, critical look at slavery, the Civil War, and public memory
Where it sits
| Historiography | 39% |
|---|---|
| Landmarks & Monuments | 20% |
| U.S. History | 20% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Landmarks & Monuments
- Historiography
- U.S. History
- Authors
- James W. Loewen
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Published
- September 24, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Landmarks & Monuments