Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong Book

	In What Ways Were We Warped?	15
	Some Functions of Public History	25
	The Sociology of Historic Sites	29
	Historic Sites are Always a Tale of Two Eras	36
	Hieratic Scale in Historic Monuments	43
	The Far West
1	Alaska Denali (Mt. McKinley): The Tallest Mountain -- The Silliest Naming	51
2	Hawaii Honolulu: King Kamehameha I, The Roman!	54
3	California Sacramento: The Flat Earth Myth on the West Coast	57
4	California Sacramento: Exploiting vs. Exterminating the Natives	62
5	California San Francisco: China Beach Leaves Out the Bad Parts	67
6	California Downieville: Killing a Man is Not News	70
7	Oregon La Grande: Don't "Discover" 'Til You See the Eyes of the Whites!	74
8	Washington Cowlitz County: No Communists Here!	76
9	Washington Centralia: Using Nationalism to Redefine a Troublesome Statue	77
10	Nevada Hickison Summit: What We Know and What We Don't Know about Rock Art	81
11	Nevada Nye County: Don't Criticize Big Brother	84
	Mountains and Plains States
12	Idaho Almo: Circle The Wagons, Boys -- It's Tourist Season	89
13	Utah North of St. George: Bad Things Happen in the Passive Voice	93
14	Arizona Navajo Reservation: Calling Native Americans Bad Names	99
15	Montana Helena: No Confederate Dead? No Problem! Invent Them!	102
16	Wyoming South Pass City: A Woman Shoulda Done It!	108
17	Colorado Pagosa Springs: Tall Tales in the West	110
18	Colorado Leadville: Licking the Corporate Hand That Feeds You	113
19	New Mexico Alcalde: The Footloose Statue	119
	The Great Plains
20	Oklahoma Oklahoma City: The Oklahoma State History Museum Confederate Room Tells No History	123
21	Kansas Gardner: Which Came First, Wilderness or Civilization?	126
22	Nebraska Red Cloud: No Lesbians on the Landscape	127
23	South Dakota Brookings: American Indians Only Roved for about a Hundred Years	130
24	North Dakota Devils Lake: The Devil is Winning, Six to One	133
	The Midwest
25	Minnesota St. Paul: "Serving the Cause of Humanity"	136
26	Iowa Muscatine: Red Men Only -- No Indians Allowed	144
27	Missouri Hannibal: Domesticating Mark Twain	148
28	Wisconsin Racine: Not the First Auto	151
29	Illinois Chicago: America's Most Toppled Monument	152
30	Indiana Graysville: Coming into Indiana Minus a Body Part	157
31	Indiana Indianapolis: The Invisible Empire Remains Invisible	161
32	Kentucky Lexington: Putting the He in Hero	164
33	Kentucky Hodgenville: Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace Cabin -- Built Thirty Years after his Death!	166
34	Michigan Dearborn: Honoring a Segregationist	170
35	Ohio Delaware: Who Menaced Whom?	173
	The South
36	Texas Gainesville: "No Nation Rose So White and Fair; None Fell So Free of Crime"	177
37	Texas Alba: The Only Honest Sundown Town in the United States	182
38	Texas Pittsburg: It Never Got Off the Ground	186
39	Texas Fredericksburg: The Real War Will Never Get into the War Museums	188
40	Texas Galveston: This Building Used to be a Hardware Store	195
41	Arkansas Grant County: Which Came First, the Statue or the Oppression?	197
42	Arkansas Little Rock: Men Make History; Women Make Wives	200
43	Louisiana Laplace: Suppressing a Slave Revolt for the Second Time	206
44	Louisiana Colfax: Mystifying the Colfax Riot and Lying about Reconstruction	210
45	Louisiana New Orleans: The White League Begins to Take a Beating	214
46	Louisiana Baton Rouge: The Toppled "Darky"	220
47	Louisiana Fort Jackson: Let Us Now Praise Famous Thieves	227
48	Mississippi Hazlehurst: The End of Reconstruction	230
49	Mississippi Itta Bena: A Black College Celebrates White Racists	235
50	Alabama Calhoun County: If Russia Can do it, Why Can't We?	239
51	Alabama Tuscumbia: Confining Helen Keller under House Arrest	243
52	Alabama Scottsboro: Famous Everywhere but at Home	246
53	Tennessee Fort Pillow: Remember Fort Pillow!	250
54	Tennessee Woodbury: Forrest Rested Here	258
55	Georgia Stone Mountain: A Confederate-KKK Shrine Encounters Turbulence	261
56	Florida Near Cedar Key: The Missing Town of Rosewood	266
57	South Carolina Beech Island: The Beech Island Agricultural Club Was Hardly What the Marker Implies	268
58	South Carolina Fort Mill: To the Loyal Slaves	273
59	South Carolina Columbia: Who Burned Columbia?	279
60	North Carolina Bentonville Battlefield: The Last Major Confederate Offensive of The Civil War	288
61	Virginia Alexandria: The Invisible Slave Trade	290
62	Virginia Alexandria: The Clash of the Martyrs	294
63	Virginia Richmond: "One of the Great Female Spies of all Times"	298
64	Virginia Richmond: Slavery and Redemption	302
65	Virginia Richmond: The Liberation of Richmond	305
66	Virginia Richmond: Abraham Lincoln Walks through Richmond	310
67	Virginia Appomattox: Getting Even the Numbers Wrong	317
68	Virginia Stickleyville: A Sign of Good Breeding	320
	The Atlantic States
69	West Virginia Union: Is California West of the Alleghenies?	325
70	District of Columbia Jefferson Memorial: Juxtaposing Quotations to Misrepresent a Founding Father	327
71	District of Columbia Lincoln Memorial: A Product of Its Time and All Time	333
72	Maryland Hampton: "No History To Tell"	338
73	Delaware Reliance: The Reverse Underground Railroad	352
74	Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Telling Amusing Incidents for the Tourists	357
75	Pennsylvania Valley Forge: George Washington's Desperate Prayer	362
76	Pennsylvania Lancaster: "You're Here to See the House"	367
77	Pennsylvania Gettysburg: South Carolina Defines the Civil War in 1965	371
78	Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Remember The "Splendid Little War" -- Forget the Tawdry Larger Wars	377
79	Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Celebrating Illegal Submarine Warfare	381
80	New Jersey Trenton: The Pilgrims and Religious Freedom	383
81	New York Manhattan: Making Native Americans Look Stupid	385
82	New York Alabama: Which George Washington?	389
83	New York North Elba: John Brown's Plaque Puts Blacks at the Bottom!	390
84	New York Manhattan: The Union League Club: Traitors to Their Own Cause	394
85	New York Manhattan: Selective Memory at USS Intrepid	404
	New England
86	Connecticut Darien: Omitting the Town's Continuing Claim to Fame	408
87	Massachusetts Boston: The Problem of the Common	413
88	Massachusetts Amherst: Celebrating Genocide	415
89	Massachusetts Boston: What a Monument Ought to Be	419
90	Vermont Burlington: Shards of Minstrelsy on a Far-North Campus	425
91	New Hampshire Peterborough and Dublin: Local History Wars	430
92	New Hampshire Concord: "Effective Political Leader"	433
93	Rhode Island Block Island: "Settlement" Means Fewer People!	436
94	Rhode Island Warren and Barrington: Fighting over the "Good Indian"	438
95	Maine Bar Harbor: At Last -- An Accurate Marker	442
	Snowplow Revisionism	443
	Getting into a Dialogue with the Landscape	447
	Appendices
A	Selecting the Sites	455
B	Ten Questions to Ask at a Historic Site	459
C	Twenty Candidates For "Toppling"	460