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From the Book - Twentieth-anniversary edition.
In what ways were we warped?
Some functions of public history
The sociology of historic sites
Hieratic scale in historic monuments
Historic sites are always a tale of two eras
Public history after Charlottesville.
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, but now the church is facing the truth
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: Still 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 told no history; finally, they closed it
Kansas, Gardner: Which came first: wilderness or civilization?
Nebraska, Red Cloud: Lesbians begin to appear 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 no more?
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, 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, 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 now becoming visible
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, Richmond: 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
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
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
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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