Myth America
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past is a book of essays by 20 leading historians and other academics debunking popular beliefs regarding events in American history, as well as more contemporary issues. The book was published by Basic Books in early 2023.
Edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, historians at Princeton University, the book focuses on more recent research challenging narratives promoted by conservative sources on subjects such as America's founding in the late 1700s, the South's rebellion during the 1860s, the New Deal of the 1930s, the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, the Reagan "revolution" of the 1980s, and charges of voter fraud during the early 2020s.[1][2] Its essays also cover a range of social and political issues, including immigration, feminism, capitalism, American socialism, and police violence.[3][1]
Contents
Myth America opens with an introduction by the book's editors Kevin Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer and includes the following essays by a host of historians and academics:[4]
- American Exceptionalism — David A. Bell
- Founding Myths — Akhil Reed Amar
- Vanishing Indians — Ari Kelman
- Immigration — Erika Lee
- America First — Sarah Churchwell
- The United States is an Empire — Daniel Immerwahr
- The Border — Geraldo Cadava
- American Socialism — Michael Kazin
- The Magic of the Marketplace — Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
- The New Deal — Eric Rauchway
- Confederate Monuments — Karen L. Cox
- The Southern Strategy — Kevin Kruse
- The Good Protest — Glenda Gilmore
- White Backlash — Lawrence B. Glickman
- The Great Society — Joshua Zeitz
- Police Violence — Elizabeth Hinton
- Insurrection — Kathleen Belew
- Family Values Feminism — Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
- Reagan Revolution — Julian E. Zelizer
- Voter Fraud — Carol Anderson
References
- ^ a b Cohen, Lizabeth (January 5, 2023). "In Myth America, Historians Set Out to Battle Misinformation". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
- ^ Lenaburg, Jerry (2023). "Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
- ^ Lozada, Carlos (January 6, 2023). "Opinion: I Looked Behind the Curtain of American History, and This Is What I Found". The New York Times. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
- ^ "Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
External link
"Was James Madison Truly Father of the Constitution?", Akhil Reed Amar, YouTube, 2022
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