{"product_id":"lies-across-america-what-our-historic-sites-get-wrong-hardcover","title":"Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames W. Loewen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fully updated and revised edition of the book \u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e called jim-dandy pop history, by the bestselling, American Book Award-winning author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the national bestseller \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLies Across America\u003c\/em\u003e, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e, 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: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEntertaining and enlightening, \u003cem\u003eLies Across America\u003c\/em\u003e also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames W. Loewen\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling and award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLies Across America\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSundown Towns\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition\u003c\/em\u003e (all from The New Press). He also wrote \u003cem\u003eTeaching What Really Happened\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White\u003c\/em\u003e and edited \u003cem\u003eThe Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader\u003c\/em\u003e. He has won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Loewen is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770617266464,"sku":"9781620975060","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9e0afa317d284bc15a3ebe9b7655932e.webp?v=1780375337","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lies-across-america-what-our-historic-sites-get-wrong-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}