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Lies across America: what our historic sites get wrong
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In What Ways Were We Warped? -- Some Functions of Public History -- The Sociology of Historic Sites -- Historic Sites Are Always a Tale of Two Eras -- Hieratic Scale in Historic Monuments -- The Far West. Alaska Denali (Mt. McKinley): The Tallest Mountain - The Silliest Naming ; Hawaii Honolulu: King Kamehameha I, The Roman! ; California Sacramento: The Flat Earth Myth on the West Coast ; California Sacramento: Exploiting vs. Exterminating the Natives ; California San Francisco: China Beach Leaves Out the Bad Parts ; California Downieville: Killing a Man Is Not News ; Oregon La Grande: Don't "Discover" 'Til You See the Eyes of the Whites! ; Washington Cowlitz County: No Communists Here! ; Washington Centralia: Using Nationalism to Redefine a Troublesome Statue ; Nevada Hickison Summit: What We Know and What We Don't Know About Rock Art ; Nevada Nye County: Don't Criticize Big Brother --
The Mountains. Idaho Almo: Circle the Wagons, Boys - It's Tourist Season ; Utah North of St. George: Bad Things Happen in the Passive Voice ; Arizona Navajo Reservation: Calling Native Americans Bad Names ; Montana Helena: No Confederate Dead? No Problem! Invent Them! ; Wyoming South Pass City: A Woman Shoulda Done It! ; Colorado Pagosa Springs: Tall Tales in the West ; Colorado Leadville: Licking the Corporate Hand That Feeds You ; New Mexico Alcalde: The Footloose Statue -- The Great Plains. Oklahoma Oklahoma City: The Oklahoma State History Museum Confederate Room Tells No History ; Kansas Gardner: Which Came First, Wilderness or Civilization? ; Nebraska Red Cloud: No Lesbians on the Landscape ; South Dakota Brookings: American Indians Only Roved for About a Hundred Years ; North Dakota Devils Lake: The Devil Is Winning, Six to One --
The Midwest. Minnesota St. Paul: "Serving the Cause of Humanity" ; Iowa Muscatine: Red Men Only - No Indians Allowed ; Missouri Hannibal: Domesticating Mark Twain ; Wisconsin Racine: Not the First Auto ; Illinois Chicago: America's Most Toppled Monument ; Indiana Graysville: Coming into Indiana Minus a Body Part ; Indiana Indianapolis: The Invisible Empire Remains Invisible ; Kentucky Lexington: Putting the He in Hero ; Kentucky Hodgenville: Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace Cabin - Built Thirty Years after His Death! ; Michigan Dearborn: Honoring a Segregationist ; Ohio Delaware: Who Menaced Whom?
The South. Texas Gainesville: "No Nation Rose So White and Fair; None Fell So Free of Crime" ; Texas Alba: The Only Honest Sundown Town in the United States ; Texas Pittsburg: It Never Got Off the Ground ; Texas Fredericksburg: The Real War Will Never Get into the War Museums ; Texas Galveston: This Building Used to Be a Hardware Store ;
Arkansas Grant County: Which Came First, the Statue or the Oppression? ; Arkansas Little Rock: Men Make History; Women Make Wives ; Louisiana Laplace: Suppressing a Slave Revolt for the Second Time ; Louisiana Colfax: Mystifying the Colfax Riot and Lying About Reconstruction ; Louisiana New Orleans: The White League Begins to Take a Beating ; Louisiana Baton Rouge: The Toppled "Darky" ; Louisiana Fort Jackson: Let Us Now Praise Famous Thieves ; Mississippi Hazlehurst: The End of Reconstruction ; Mississippi Itta Bena: A Black College Celebrates White Racists ; Alabama Calhoun County: If Russia Can Do It, Why Can't We? ; Alabama Tuscumbia: Confining Helen Keller Under House Arrest ; Alabama Scottsboro: Famous Everywhere but at Home ; Tennessee Fort Pillow: Remember Fort Pillow! ; Tennessee Woodbury: Forrest Rested Here ; Georgia Stone Mountain: A Confederate-KKK Shrine Encounters Turbulence ; Florida Near Cedar Key: The Missing Town of Rosewood ;
South Carolina Beech Island: The Beech Island Agricultural Club Was Hardly What the Marker Implies ; South Carolina Fort Mill: To the Loyal Slaves ; South Carolina Columbia: Who Burned Columbia? ; North Carolina Bentonville Battlefield: The Last Major Confederate Offensive of the Civil War ; Virginia Alexandria: The Invisible Slave Trade ; Virginia Alexandria: The Clash of the Martyrs ; Virginia Richmond: "One of the Great Female Spies of All Times" ; Virginia Richmond: Slavery and Redemption ; Virginia Richmond: The Liberation of Richmond ; Virginia Richmond: Abraham Lincoln Walks Through Richmond ; Virginia Appomattox: Getting Even the Numbers Wrong ; Virginia Stickleyville: A Sign of Good Breeding --
The Atlantic States. West Virginia Union: Is California West of the Alleghenies? ; District of Columbia Jefferson Memorial: Juxtaposing Quotations to Misrepresent a Founding Father ; District of Columbia Lincoln Memorial: A Product of Its Time and All Time ; Maryland Hampton: "No History to Tell" ; Delaware Reliance: The Reverse Underground Railroad ; Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Telling Amusing Incidents for the Tourists ; Pennsylvania Valley Forge: George Washington's Desperate Prayer ; Pennsylvania Lancaster: "You're Here to See the House" ; Pennsylvania Gettysburg: South Carolina Defines the Civil War in 1965 ; Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Remember the "Splendid Little War" - Forget the Tawdry Larger Wars ; Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Celebrating Illegal Submarine Warfare ; New Jersey Trenton: The Pilgrims and Religious Freedom ; New York Manhattan: Making Native Americans Look Stupid ; New York Alabama: Which George Washington? ; New York North Elba: John Brown's Plaque Puts Blacks at the Bottom! ; New York Manhattan: The Union League Club: Traitors to Their Own Cause ; New York Manhattan: Selective Memory at USS Intrepid --
New England. Connecticut Darien: Omitting the Town's Continuing Claim to Fame ; Massachusetts Boston: The Problem of the Common ; Massachusetts Amherst: Celebrating Genocide ; Massachusetts Boston: What a Monument Ought to Be ; Vermont Burlington: Shards of Minstrelsy on a Far-North Campus ; New Hampshire Peterborough and Dublin: Local History Wars ; New Hampshire Concord: "Effective Political Leader" ; Rhode Island Block Island: "Settlement" Means Fewer People! ; Rhode Island Warren and Barrington: Fighting Over the "Good Indian" ; Maine Bar Harbor: At Last - An Accurate Marker
Snowplow Revisionism
Getting into a Dialogue with the Landscape
Appendices. Selecting the Sites ; Ten Questions to Ask at a Historic Site ; Twenty Candidates for "Toppling".
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