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