Miseducating Americans: distortions of historical understanding/

"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 hist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamilton, Richard F.
Format: Printed Book
Published: New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers 2015.
Subjects:
United States-History-Errors, inventions, etc.
United States-History-Study and teaching.
United States-History-Textbooks-Evaluation.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=-kAYBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Miseducating+Americans&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ2ZKc77_VAhWCn5QKHR41BpoQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=Miseducating%20Americans&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The major themes
  • Land of the free, 1776-1865
  • Land of the free, 1866 and after
  • Benjamin Harrison's presidency
  • Hanna, McKinley, Roosevelt, and Carnegie
  • America's empire, 1898 and after
  • On war and the military
  • On those past events, the twentieth century, and likely futures.

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