Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

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Acknowledgements; Contents; Alphabetical Index of States; In What Ways Were We Warped?; Some Functions of Public History; The Sociology of Historic Sites; Historic Sites Are Always a Tale of Two Eras; Hieratic Scale in Historic Monuments; The Far West; 1. The Tallest Mountain- The Silliest Naming; 2. King Kamehameha I, The Roman!; 3. The Flat Earth Myth on the West Coast; 4. Exploiting vs. Exterminating the Natives; 5. China Beach Leaves Out the Bad Parts; 6. Killing a Man is Not News; 7. Don't "Discover" 'Til You See The Eyes of The Whites!; 8. No Communists Here!;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 all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. Lies Across America is a realty check for anyone who has ever sought to learn about America through the nation's public sites and markers. Entertaining and enlightening, it is destined to change the way Am.