Miseducating Americans : Distortions of Historical Understanding / Richard F. Hamilton.
ISBN
9781315124605 (e-book)
1315124602
1315124602
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource : text file, PDF
İçindekiler Notu
Chapter 1 Land of the Free, 1776{u2013}1865 -- chapter 2 Land of the Free, 1866 and After -- chapter 3 Benjamin Harrison{u2019}s Presidency -- chapter 4 Hanna, McKinley, Roosevelt, and Carnegie -- chapter 5 America{u2019}s Empire, 1898 and After -- chapter 6 On War and the Military -- chapter 7 On ose Past Events, the Twentieth Century, and Likely Futures.
Özet, vb.
"In Miseducating Americans, Richard F. Hamilton examines accounts of American history appearing in textbooks and popular accounts and compares these with the reports contained in scholarly monographs. The task: to determine how certain myths and misconstructions became accepted as recorded history. Hamilton provides much needed correction of those misleading accounts. Was America historically the "land of the free?" Not if you take into account slavery, discrimination, and post-Civil War segregation policies. Was America in the late nineteenth century truly expansionist, as American textbooks imply, or did it actually capitalize on unexpected political and economic opportunities, like Russia's desire to rid itself of Alaska? Was the acquisition of the Philippines a zealous profit-seeking effort aiming for "the China market," or the fortuitous consequences of a move against Spain during the Spanish-American War? Miseducating Americans debunks many commonly accepted explanations of historical facts. It contends that many accounts are oversimplifications, and some are one-sided depictions of virtue. Hamilton traces the sources of these misconstructions, which mostly come from history textbooks written by authors aiming for "popular audiences." He then offers explanations as to how and why the inaccuracies have been repeated and passed on."--Provided by publisher.
Konu
United States __ History __ Textbooks __ Evaluation.
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