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Historians United States Biography Historiography Indians of North America in textbooks National characteristics, American Thanksgiving Day in textbooks United States United States Historiography United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Historiography United States History Textbooks United States Race relations History 20th centuryDunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Summary: "The common assumption that the United States is a "nation of immigrants" camouflages the reality that the US is a colonialist settler state"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 DUNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 DUNDomby, Adam H.
Summary: "This book examines the foundational role of deliberate misrepresentation in various elements of white supremist Lost Cause mythology, from Confederate soldiers' military prowess, loyalty, motivation, and unity, to mythical black Confederates, to the evolution of Lost Cause myths to support present-day white supremacy. It adds to the understanding of the memory and reality of the American Civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2020
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Summary: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973 LOEGiorello, Joe
Summary: "In this installment of the best-selling history series, young readers move chronologically through 20 Civil War battles, beginning with the first shots fires at Fort Sumter to the final days at Appomattox. Historic photographs, maps, and powerful chpaters make history leap off the page, capturing the attention of even reluctant readers. Learn about the military leaders, weapons, and strategies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rolling Wheelhouse Publishing 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.01 FONLoewen, James W.
Summary: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LOECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LOEAmbrose, Stephen E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 AMBAmbrose, Stephen E.
Contents: The Founding Fathers -- The Battle of New Orleans -- The Indian country -- The transcontinental railroad -- Grant and reconstruction -- Theodore Roosevelt and the beginning of the American century -- Democracy, Eisenhower, and the war in Europe -- The war in the Pacific -- The legacy of World War II -- Vietnam -- Writing in and about America -- War stories: Crazy Horse and Custer and Pegasus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973 AMBPuglionesi, Alicia
Summary: "In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction-with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PUGLepore, Jill
Summary: "From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 LEPSummary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MYTBailyn, Bernard.
Summary: "From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflect a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: how can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight? What did things feel like in the moment when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 900 BAILoewen, James W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 LoeParini, Jay.
Contents: Of Plymouth Plantation -- The Federalist papers -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- The journals of Lewis and Clark -- Walden-- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The souls of black folk -- The promised land -- How to win friends and influence people -- The common sense book of baby and child care -- On the road -- The feminine mystique -- 100 more books that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.7 PARSlotkin, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.072 SLOHurt, R. Douglas.
Summary: "A how-to-do-it book for local historians...for writing the history of a farm." Discusses oral history, using photographs, and the importance of farm architecture. Suggests major sources, appropriate techniques for research at libraries and state historical societies, and how to write the history.--Book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Krieger Pub. Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 907.2 HURMedved, Michael.
Summary: Reveals the truth about some of the most pernicious and pervasive myths about America, in a provocative look at such "lies" as corporate America oppresses ordinary citizens, and compassionate government programs provide the best escape from poverty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MEDTheoharis, Jeanne
Contents: Introduction: the political uses and misuses of civil rights history and memorialization in the present -- The long movement outside the south: fighting for school desegregation in the "liberal" north -- Revisiting the uprisings of the 1960s and the history of injustice and struggle that preceded them -- Beyond the redneck: polite racism and "the white moderate" -- The media was often an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 THESeidule, Ty
Summary: "In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SEIJaffe, Steven H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 JAFSchocket, Andrew M.
Summary: "The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 SCHFisher, David
Summary: "From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's first convention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War reveals the amazing and often little known stories behind the battle lines of America's bloodiest war and debunks the myths that surround its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7 FISGallagher, Gary W.
Summary: If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. But, argues distinguished historian Gary Gallagher, we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1997