Myth America : historians take on the biggest legends and lies about our past
Summary
"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... Full description
- American exceptionalism / by David A. Bell
- Founding myths / Akhil Reed Amar
- Vanishing Indians / by Ari Kelman
- Immigration / Erika Lee
- America first / by Sarah Churchwell
- The United States is an empire / by Daniel Immerwahr
- The border / by Geraldo Cadava
- American socialism / by Michael Kazin
- The magic of the marketplace / by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
- The New Deal / by Eric Rauchway
- Conderate monuments / by Karen L. Cox
- The Southern strategy / by Kevin Kruse
- The good protest / by Glenda Gilmore
- White backlash / by Lawrence B. Glickman
- The Great Society / by Joshua Zeitz
- Police violence / by Elizabeth Hinton
- Insurrection / by Kathleen Belew
- Family values feminism / by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
- Reagan revolution / by Julian E. Zelizer
- Voter fraud / by Carol Anderson.