1st Edition
Miseducating Americans Distortions of Historical Understanding
By Richard F. Hamilton
Copyright 2015
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Major Themes
1 Land of the Free, 1776–1865
2 Land of the Free, 1866 and After
3 Benjamin Harrison's Presidency
4 Hanna, McKinley, Roosevelt, and Carnegie
5 America's Empire, 1898 and After
6 On War and the Military
7 On Those Past Events, the Twentieth Century, and Likely Futures
Index
Biography
Richard F. Hamilton
