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The textbooks’ first mistake is to underplay previous explorers. People from other continents had reached the Americas many times before 1492. Even if Columbus had never sailed, other Europeans would have soon reached the Americas. Indeed, Europeans may already have been fishing off Newfoundland in the 1480s.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Extraordinary Patriots of the United States of America: Colonial Times to Pre-Civil War
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days after the battle found the bodies of “the Indians and white
Russell Shorto • Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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pioneers in service of a Manifest Destiny.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
The Hamptons has been a destination for rich New Yorkers since the late nineteenth century, when the city’s old moneyed aristocrats and newly minted tycoons transformed the quiet farmland and saltboxes into a summer colony of mansions for high society.
Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
The US Army’s First Commandos and the Raid That Wasn’t
Benjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls
In 1885, Boston entrepreneur Andrew Preston* and a partner formed the Boston Fruit Company, with the idea of using fast steamships, rather than sail, to get bananas to market before they spoiled. It was a success: Inexpensive, delicious bananas took the country by storm. By the turn of the century Boston Fruit, which was later merged into the Unite
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