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The Greatest Civil War Lie Ever Told to the American People

Author : William Bevis M.A.

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 104 pages

File Size : 36,68 MB

Release : 2005-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0595342620

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Author Will Bevis claims he found The Stone/Lee Civil War Papers described within seven years ago, while trespassing near midnight, at Jefferson's Rock, a small national park near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. He also claims his life has been threatened over these papers which he says expose the greatest lie that the American people have ever been told and which they still believe today: that the South lost the Civil War. He says that the Federal Government quickly tried to obtain these papers through threats but that he gave them to a well known Atlanta businessman who promised to make them public--but who then double-crossed him. The one thing he has never said is that this work is a work of fiction. He claims that no one would publish it as non-fiction, and that he finally gave up hopes of ever doing so. Bevis states he decided it was better to publish this as fiction than for the public never to hear of it at all. Here then are the Stone/Lee Civil War papers. Do they expose the Greatest Civil War Lie ever told the American people? Or are they themselves the greatest Civil War lie ever told?



Teaching What Really Happened

Author : James W. Loewen

Publisher : Teachers College Press

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 24,79 MB

Release : 2018-09-07

Category : Education

ISBN : 0807759481

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“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand what really happened in the past will empower them to use history as a tool to argue for better policies in the present. Our society needs engaged citizens now more than ever, and this book offers teachers concrete ideas for getting students excited about history while also teaching them to read critically. It will specifically help teachers and students tackle important content areas, including Eurocentrism, the American Indian experience, and slavery. Book Features: An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education. Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct online historical research, and teaching historiography. Ideas from teachers across the country who are empowering students by teaching what really happened. Specific chapters dedicated to five content topics usually taught poorly in today’s schools.



It Wasn't About Slavery

Author : Samuel W. Mitcham

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 29,65 MB

Release : 2020-01-14

Category : History

ISBN : 1621578771

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The Great Lie of the Civil War If you think the Civil War was fought to end slavery, you’ve been duped. In fact, as distinguished military historian Samuel Mitcham argues in his provocative new book, It Wasn’t About Slavery, no political party advocated freeing the slaves in the presidential election of 1860. The Republican Party platform opposed the expansion of slavery to the western states, but it did not embrace abolition. The real cause of the war was a dispute over money and self-determination. Before the Civil War, the South financed most of the federal government—because the federal government was funded by tariffs, which were paid disproportionately by the agricultural South that imported manufactured goods. Yet, most federal government spending and subsidies benefited the North. The South wanted a more limited federal government and lower tariffs—the ideals of Thomas Jefferson—and when the South could not get that, it opted for independence. Lincoln was unprepared when the Southern states seceded, and force was the only way to bring them—and their tariff money—back. That was the real cause of the war. A well-documented and compelling read by a master historian, It Wasn’t About Slavery will change the way you think about Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the cause and legacy of America’s momentous Civil War.



Lies Across America

Author : James W. Loewen

Publisher : The New Press

Page : 482 pages

File Size : 11,34 MB

Release : 2019-09-24

Category : History

ISBN : 1620974932

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A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials.



Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!

Author : Lochlainn Seabrook

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 31,50 MB

Release : 2022-09-05

Category :

ISBN : 9781955351218

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Want to know the truth about the American Civil War? You won't learn it from any mainstream book. But you will in our international blockbuster, Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War Is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!



Lies My Teacher Told Me

Author : James W. Loewen

Publisher : The New Press

Page : 466 pages

File Size : 18,37 MB

Release : 2008

Category : History

ISBN : 1595583262

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Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.



Lies My Teacher Told Me

Author : James W. Loewen

Publisher : The New Press

Page : 491 pages

File Size : 38,69 MB

Release : 2018-07-17

Category : History

ISBN : 162097455X

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"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself." —Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times. For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems, and calls out academic historians for abandoning the concept of truth in a misguided effort to be "objective." What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should—and could—be taught to American students.



The American Civil War

Author : Jim Johnson

Publisher : Independently Published

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 29,4 MB

Release : 2022-10-17

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ISBN :

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When anyone writes about history, he has one major problem. He first has to know what is real and what is illusionary. Just imagine someone spending his entire life writing the history of the world only to discover that there really are Aliens controlling the leaders of the nations. His whole narrative of history would be incomplete and probably one big, however unintentional, lie. Great men were merely doing what they were told to do; there were no heroes, only a puppets being controlled by some alien entity. Remember the story about the Emperor who had no clothes. Everyone believed he had clothes because they were all told and believed he had clothes. It wasn't until one boy cried out, 'The Emperor has no clothes' did the people finally see that their emperor was, indeed, naked. And yet, most historians write historical accounts because they have been told that history is purely matter in motion. When you add Man to the equation, you obtain Intelligent Evolutionary Progress. That is what the historians have been trained to see. They have been trained to see the Emperor with his clothes on. However, history, without the Biblical worldview of reality, is history with no clothes: naked truth is not truth. The following book is a study of the American Civil War from the point of view that the accepted historical accounts have left out the most important facts: There is a war going on between God and Satan on this earth, and it manifests itself at times in open conflicts. If there is such an 'invisible' battle as described in the Bible, then all history must be seen through that worldview. History is not just a question of good versus evil, correct versus wrong, the rich versus the poor, the powerful versus the weak, or the moral versus the immoral--it really is the people obeying God's Laws versus the people serving Satan who is at war with those Laws. Genesis 3:7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. After reading this book: Ask yourself, is modern historical writing merely literary fig leaves?



Lies the Government Told You

Author : Andrew P. Napolitano

Publisher : Thomas Nelson

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 30,10 MB

Release : 2010-03-01

Category : Law

ISBN : 141858424X

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YOU’VE BEEN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENT We shrug off this fact as an unfortunate reality. America is the land of the free, after all. Does it really matter whether our politicians bend the truth here and there? When the truth is traded for lies, our freedoms are diminished and don’t return. In Lies the Government Told You, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano reveals how America’s freedom, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, has been forfeited by a government more protective of its own power than its obligations to preserve our individual liberties. “Judge Napolitano’s tremendous knowledge of American law, history, and politics, as well as his passion for freedom, shines through in Lies the Government Told You, as he details how throughout American history, politicians and government officials have betrayed the ideals of personal liberty and limited government." —Congressman Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX), from the Foreword



This Republic of Suffering

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 19,29 MB

Release : 2009-01-06

Category : History

ISBN : 0375703837

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.