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.
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.
