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100 1 $aLoewen, James W.
245 10 $aLies across America :$bwhat our historic sites and monuments get wrong /$cJames W. Loewen.
260 $aNew York :$bNew Press :$bDistributed by W.W. Norton,$c©1999.
300 $a480 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aExamines over one hundred markers, monuments, houses, and other historic sites in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, and discusses the lies and omissions that are being memorialized across the American countryside.
505 00 $tIn What Ways Were We Warped? --$tSome Functions of Public History --$tThe Sociology of Historic Sites --$tHistoric Sites are Always a Tale of Two Eras --$tHieratic Scale in Historic Monuments --$tThe Far West --$tAlaska Denali (Mt. McKinley): The Tallest Mountain -- The Silliest Naming --$tHawaii Honolulu: King Kamehameha I, The Roman! --$tCalifornia Sacramento: The Flat Earth Myth on the West Coast --$tCalifornia Sacramento: Exploiting vs. Exterminating the Natives.
505 80 $tCalifornia San Francisco: China Beach Leaves Out the Bad Parts --$tCalifornia Downieville: Killing a Man is Not News --$tOregon La Grande: Don't "Discover" 'Til You See the Eyes of the Whites! --$tWashington Cowlitz County: No Communists Here! --$tWashington Centralia: Using Nationalism to Redefine a Troublesome Statue --$tNevada Hickison Summit: What We Know and What We Don't Know about Rock Art --$tNevada Nye County: Don't Criticize Big Brother --$tMountains and Plains States.
505 80 $tIdaho Almo: Circle The Wagons, Boys -- It's Tourist Season --$tUtah North of St. George: Bad Things Happen in the Passive Voice --$tArizona Navajo Reservation: Calling Native Americans Bad Names --$tMontana Helena: No Confederate Dead? No Problem! Invent Them! --$tWyoming South Pass City: A Woman Shoulda Done It! --$tColorado Pagosa Springs: Tall Tales in the West --$tColorado Leadville: Licking the Corporate Hand That Feeds You --$tNew Mexico Alcalde: The Footloose Statue.
505 80 $tThe Great Plains --$tOklahoma Oklahoma City: The Oklahoma State History Museum Confederate Room Tells No History --$tKansas Gardner: Which Came First, Wilderness or Civilization? --$tNebraska Red Cloud: No Lesbians on the Landscape --$tSouth Dakota Brookings: American Indians Only Roved for about a Hundred Years --$tNorth Dakota Devils Lake: The Devil is Winning, Six to One --$tThe Midwest --$tMinnesota St. Paul: "Serving the Cause of Humanity."
505 80 $tIowa Muscatine: Red Men Only -- No Indians Allowed --$tMissouri Hannibal: Domesticating Mark Twain --$tWisconsin Racine: Not the First Auto --$tIllinois Chicago: America's Most Toppled Monument --$tIndiana Graysville: Coming into Indiana Minus a Body Part --$tIndiana Indianapolis: The Invisible Empire Remains Invisible --$tKentucky Lexington: Putting the He in Hero --$tKentucky Hodgenville: Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace Cabin -- Built Thirty Years after his Death!
505 80 $tMichigan Dearborn: Honoring a Segregationist --$tOhio Delaware: Who Menaced Whom? --$tThe South --$tTexas Gainesville: "No Nation Rose So White and Fair; None Fell So Free of Crime" --$tTexas Alba: The Only Honest Sundown Town in the United States --$tTexas Pittsburg: It Never Got Off the Ground --$tTexas Fredericksburg: The Real War Will Never Get into the War Museums --$tTexas Galveston: This Building Used to be a Hardware Store.
505 80 $tArkansas Grant County: Which Came First, the Statue or the Oppression? --$tArkansas Little Rock: Men Make History; Women Make Wives --$tLouisiana Laplace: Suppressing a Slave Revolt for the Second Time --$tLouisiana Colfax: Mystifying the Colfax Riot and Lying about Reconstruction --$tLouisiana New Orleans: The White League Begins to Take a Beating --$tLouisiana Baton Rouge: The Toppled "Darky" --$tLouisiana Fort Jackson: Let Us Now Praise Famous Thieves.
505 80 $tMississippi Hazlehurst: The End of Reconstruction --$tMississippi Itta Bena: A Black College Celebrates White Racists --$tAlabama Calhoun County: If Russia Can do it, Why Can't We? --$tAlabama Tuscumbia: Confining Helen Keller under House Arrest --$tAlabama Scottsboro: Famous Everywhere but at Home --$tTennessee Fort Pillow: Remember Fort Pillow! --$tTennessee Woodbury: Forrest Rested Here --$tGeorgia Stone Mountain: A Confederate-KKK Shrine Encounters Turbulence.
505 80 $tFlorida Near Cedar Key: The Missing Town of Rosewood --$tSouth Carolina Beech Island: The Beech Island Agricultural Club Was Hardly What the Marker Implies --$tSouth Carolina Fort Mill: To the Loyal Slaves --$tSouth Carolina Columbia: Who Burned Columbia? --$tNorth Carolina Bentonville Battlefield: The Last Major Confederate Offensive of The Civil War --$tVirginia Alexandria: The Invisible Slave Trade --$tVirginia Alexandria: The Clash of the Martyrs.
505 80 $tVirginia Richmond: "One of the Great Female Spies of all Times" --$tVirginia Richmond: Slavery and Redemption --$tVirginia Richmond: The Liberation of Richmond --$tVirginia Richmond: Abraham Lincoln Walks through Richmond --$tVirginia Appomattox: Getting Even the Numbers Wrong --$tVirginia Stickleyville: A Sign of Good Breeding --$tThe Atlantic States --$tWest Virginia Union: Is California West of the Alleghenies?
505 80 $tDistrict of Columbia Jefferson Memorial: Juxtaposing Quotations to Misrepresent a Founding Father --$tDistrict of Columbia Lincoln Memorial: A Product of Its Time and All Time --$tMaryland Hampton: "No History To Tell" --$tDelaware Reliance: The Reverse Underground Railroad --$tPennsylvania Philadelphia: Telling Amusing Incidents for the Tourists --$tPennsylvania Valley Forge: George Washington's Desperate Prayer --$tPennsylvania Lancaster: "You're Here to See the House."
505 80 $tPennsylvania Gettysburg: South Carolina Defines the Civil War in 1965 --$tPennsylvania Philadelphia: Remember The "Splendid Little War" -- Forget the Tawdry Larger Wars --$tPennsylvania Philadelphia: Celebrating Illegal Submarine Warfare --$tNew Jersey Trenton: The Pilgrims and Religious Freedom --$tNew York Manhattan: Making Native Americans Look Stupid --$tNew York Alabama: Which George Washington? --$tNew York North Elba: John Brown's Plaque Puts Blacks at the Bottom!
505 80 $tNew York Manhattan: The Union League Club: Traitors to Their Own Cause --$tNew York Manhattan: Selective Memory at USS Intrepid --$tNew England --$tConnecticut Darien: Omitting the Town's Continuing Claim to Fame --$tMassachusetts Boston: The Problem of the Common --$tMassachusetts Amherst: Celebrating Genocide --$tMassachusetts Boston: What a Monument Ought to Be --$tVermont Burlington: Shards of Minstrelsy on a Far-North Campus --$tNew Hampshire Peterborough and Dublin: Local History Wars.
505 80 $tNew Hampshire Concord: "Effective Political Leader" --$tRhode Island Block Island: "Settlement" Means Fewer People! --$tRhode Island Warren and Barrington: Fighting over the "Good Indian" --$tMaine Bar Harbor: At Last -- An Accurate Marker --$tSnowplow Revisionism --$tGetting into a Dialogue with the Landscape --$tSelecting the Sites --$tTen Questions to Ask at a Historic Site --$tTwenty Candidates For "Toppling."
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