"Originally published in the United States by The New Press, 1999" --Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Overturns the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. Loewen provides an 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. The author uses his investigation of these public versions of history, often literally written in stone, to correct historical interpretations that are profoundly wrong, to tell neglected but important stories about the American past, and most importantly to raise questions about what we as a nation choose to commemorate and how, contrasted to what we omit and cover over. --From publisher description.