No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American HistoryHarper & Row, 1971 - 311 pagina's Explodes such American myths as free elections, the Mason-Dixon line, free enterprise, Emancipation, and the Puritan Pilgrims. |
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Pagina 75
... British soldiers in their town against their will . Resentment reached a boiling point on the cold and snowy night of March 5 , 1770. A crowd of demonstrators assembled before the Custom House on King Street to protest the presence of ...
... British soldiers in their town against their will . Resentment reached a boiling point on the cold and snowy night of March 5 , 1770. A crowd of demonstrators assembled before the Custom House on King Street to protest the presence of ...
Pagina 79
... British shots left eight minutemen dead . At least one black man , Prince Estabrook of West Lexington , was among the min- utemen assembled on the Lexington common . Two Framingham companies of minutemen , Captain Edgehill's and Captain ...
... British shots left eight minutemen dead . At least one black man , Prince Estabrook of West Lexington , was among the min- utemen assembled on the Lexington common . Two Framingham companies of minutemen , Captain Edgehill's and Captain ...
Pagina 80
... British redcoats stormed the hill two times , but they were driven off by the deadly fire of the Americans just before reaching the trenches . The third time the British soldiers raced up the hill , the Ameri- cans were out of gunpowder ...
... British redcoats stormed the hill two times , but they were driven off by the deadly fire of the Americans just before reaching the trenches . The third time the British soldiers raced up the hill , the Ameri- cans were out of gunpowder ...
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The Myth of the Puritan Pilgrim I | 1 |
The Myth of the Savage | 31 |
The Myth of the Founding Fathers | 64 |
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