ITEM OVERVIEW
The bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me continues debunking American history in ways that will astonish, educate, and entertain. Selecting from the monuments, markers, museums, and historic sites from every State, Loewen tells wonderful stories of outrageous and expensive attempts to build monuments that actually distort the truth of American history. Abe Lincoln's birthplace log cabin was actually built 30 years after his death; Valley Forge, where contrary to popular belief, the winter was mild, and Washington was nowhere near in 1777 when he was supposed to be praying in the snow; how the birthplace of Helen Keller flies a confederate flag while she was an early supporter of the NAACP. Why was Amherst College named after the man who brought germ warfare to the Americas? Why does James Buchanan's house deny that our 15th president was gay? How Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate cavalry leader and founder of the KKK gets more State historical markers than George Washington...and much, much, more.
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