Lies Across America by Loewen, James W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments THE FAR WEST

1. The Tallest Mountain—The Silliest Naming 2. King Kamehameha 1, 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! 9. Using Nationalism to Redefine a Troublesome Statue 10. What We Know And What We Don’t Know About Rock Art 11. Don’t Criticize Big Brother

MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS STATES

12. Circle The Wagons, Boys—It’s Tourist Season 13. Bad Things Happen In The Passive Voice 14. Calling Native Americans Bad Names 15. No Confederate Dead? No Problem! Invent Them! 16. A Woman Shoulda Done It! 17. Tall Tales in the West 18. Licking the Corporate Hand That Feeds You 19. The Footloose Statue

THE GREAT PLAINS

THE MIDWEST

25. “Serving The Cause Of Humanity” 26. Red Men Only—No Indians Allowed 27. Domesticating Mark Twain 28. Not the First Auto 29. America’s Most Toppled Monument 30. Coming into Indiana Minus a Body Part 31. The Invisible Empire Remains Invisible 32. Putting the He in Hero 33. Abraham Lincoln’s Birthplace Cabin—Built Thirty Years after His Death! 34. Honoring a Segregationist 35. Who Menaced Whom?

THE SOUTH

36. “No Nation Rose So White and Fair; None Fell So Free of Crime” 37. The Only Honest Sundown Town in the United States 38. It Never Got Off the Ground 39. The Real War Will Never Get into the War Museums 40. This Building Used to be a Hardware Store 41. Which Came First, the Statue or the Oppression? 42. Men Make History; Women Make Wives 43. Suppressing a Slave Revolt for the Second Time 44. Mystifying the Colfax Riot and Lying About Reconstruction 45. The White League Begins to Take a Beating 46. The Toppled “Darky” 47. Let Us Now Praise Famous Thieves 48. The End of Reconstruction 49. A Black College Celebrates White Racists 50. If Russia Can Do It, Why Can’t We? 51. Confining Helen Keller under House Arrest 52. Famous Everywhere but at Home 53. Remember Fort Pillow! 54. Forrest Rested Here 55. A Confederate-KKK Shrine Encounters Turbulence 56. The Missing Town of Rosewood 57. The Beech Island Agricultural Club Was Hardly What the Marker Implies 58. To the Loyal Slaves 59. Who Burned Columbia? 60. The Last Major Confederate Offensive of the Civil War 61. The Invisible Slave Trade 62. The Clash of the Martyrs 63. “One of the Great Female Spies of All Times” 64. Slavery and Redemption 65. The Liberation of Richmond 66. Abraham Lincoln Walks through Richmond 67. Getting Even the Numbers Wrong 68. A Sign of Good Breeding

THE ATLANTIC STATES

69. Is California West of the Alleghenies? 70. Juxtaposing Quotations to Misrepresent the Founding Father 71. A Product of Its Time and All Time 72. “No History to Tell” 73. The Reverse Underground Railroad 74. Telling Amusing Incidents For The Tourists 75. George Washington’s Desperate Prayer 76. “You’re Here to See the House” 77. South Carolina Defines the Civil War in 1965 78. Remember the “Splendid Little War”—Forget the Tawdry Larger Wars 79. Celebrating Illegal Submarine Warfare 80. The Pilgrims and Religious Freedom 81. Making Native Americans Look Stupid 82. Which George Washington? 83. John Brown’s Plaque Puts Blacks At The Bottom! 84. The Union League Club: Traitors to Their Own Cause 85. Selective Memory at the USS Intrepid

NEW ENGLAND

86. Omitting the Town’s Continuing Claim to Fame 87. The Problem Of The Common 88. Celebrating Genocide 89. What a Monument Ought to Be 90. Shards of Minstrelsy on a Far-North Campus 91. Local History Wars 92. “Effective Political Leader” 93. “Settlement” Means Fewer People! 94. Fighting Over the “Good Indian” 95. At Last—An Accurate Marker

Snowplow Revisionism Getting into a Dialogue with the Landscape Appendices Index Copyright Page