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Book 2019

Lies across America : what our historic sites get wrong

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Publisher
The New Press
Published
2019
  • Errors, inventions
  • Monuments
  • Historic sites
  • History
  • Geschichte
  • Mythos
  • Topographie
  • New York Times reviewed

"Lies Across America looks at more than one hundred sites where history is told on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, outdoor museums, historic houses, forts, and ships. Loewen uses his investigation of these public versions of history, often literally written in stone, to correct historical interpretations that are profoundly wrong, to tell neglected but important stories about the American past, and, most importantly, to raise questions about what we as a nation choose to commemorate and how."--Jacket.