History in the making : an absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years / Kyle Ward.
Ward, Kyle Roy, 1969-
2006
E175.85 .W37 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
History in the making : an absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years / Kyle Ward.
Author
Ward, Kyle Roy, 1969-
ISBN
9781595580443
1595580441
Publication Details
New York : New Press, c2006.
Language
English
Description
xxvi, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
E175.85 .W37 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.07
Summary
In this look at how the telling of American history has changed over the past three hundred years, historian Kyle Ward juxtaposes excerpts from U.S. history textbooks of different eras to compare how the same event or historical figure has been portrayed differently at different times in our nation's history. From the Boston Massacre to antebellum slavery, the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor to the stock market crash of 1929, Ward uncovers unexpected and often dramatic shifts of interpretation corresponding to prevailing attitudes at the time each textbook was written. Here is striking, firsthand evidence of the shifting biases, politics, and cultural preferences in both our understanding of our own history and in what we teach our children about the past. This is the history of history--a stark reminder that even history itself changes over time.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-358) and index.
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Native American relations with the new settlers
The Vikings
Columbus's landing in the New World
St. Augustine: America's first city
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
The pilgrims land in the New World
New Sweden
Anne Hutchinson
Witchcraft in the colonies
George Washington and Fort Duquesne
The Boston Massacre
Lexington and Concord
Massacre at Wyoming
Women in the Revolutionary War
Andrew Jackson and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend
The Monroe Doctrine
The Caroline Affair
The Trail of Tears
The Mormons
The Alamo
The start of the Mexican-American War
Slavery in America
Abraham Lincoln's character
John Brown at Harpers Ferry
The Dakota conflict of 1862
Sherman's march to the sea
African Americans and Reconstruction
Birth of the Ku Klux Klan
Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike
Immigration
Women's suffrage
The sinking of the USS Maine
The Philippine-American war
The Espionage Act
The League of Nations
Causes of the stock market crash
Social Security Act
The Bataan Death March
Japanese internment
Rosie the Riveter
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Marshall Plan
Truman fires MacArthur
McCarthyism
Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement
The Bay of Pigs
The Laotian crisis
The Gulf of Tonkin
The counterculture
Nixon in China
The modern feminist movement
The Camp David Accords
The Reagan revolution.

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