A review by jeffmauch
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen

4.0

If you've read Loewen's first book, "Lies My Teacher Told Me," you'll have a pretty good idea how this book is going to read. In this sequel of sorts, Loewen takes us state to state to discuss monuments and and historic places and how they're misrepresented to the public in a number of ways. Some are lies of omission while others are outright fabrications of event that never even happened. For the most part, this was a pretty good read, but it gets long and repetitive after a while. It's no surprise how many of the monuments mentioned are confederate or slavery related in nature and include astonishing fabrications. Many of these happen to be in the south and were the workings of the Daughters of the Confederacy, which if you're not aware of their way of manipulating history for their own motives and purposes, this book will be an eye opener for you. Overall there's a lot of good research and fact finding here. It's amazing how much of what's written on historical markers and told to us by tour guides is taken as fact, when it is anything but. 3.5/4