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 108
... Washington and others had sought to keep black trigger fingers out of the Revolutionary Army . Slaves had served in state militia and had fought in the earliest bat- tles of the American Revolution when the Continental Army was formed ...
... Washington and others had sought to keep black trigger fingers out of the Revolutionary Army . Slaves had served in state militia and had fought in the earliest bat- tles of the American Revolution when the Continental Army was formed ...
Pagina 109
... Washington a poem praising him as commander . Washington sent her a thank - you note , saying that only possible accusations of vanity on his part prohibited him from having the poem published , and told her to drop by if she was ever ...
... Washington a poem praising him as commander . Washington sent her a thank - you note , saying that only possible accusations of vanity on his part prohibited him from having the poem published , and told her to drop by if she was ever ...
Pagina 124
... Washington on the sixteenth of November , the stampede from Fort Lee on the eighteenth of Novem- ber , the retreat through New Jersey , and , on the eighth of December , Washington's escape across the Delaware . A British letter writer ...
... Washington on the sixteenth of November , the stampede from Fort Lee on the eighteenth of Novem- ber , the retreat through New Jersey , and , on the eighth of December , Washington's escape across the Delaware . A British letter writer ...
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The Myth of the Puritan Pilgrim | 15 |
The Myth of the Savage | 50 |
The Myth of the Founding Fathers | 88 |
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