Lies My Teacher Told Me

39 Henry Dobyns, Their Number Become Thinned (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1983), 332. He also points out that the ...

Frederick Turner, Beyond Geography (New York: Viking, 1980), 244; Nash, Red, White, and Black, 317-18; and James Axtell, “The Wh ...

Schlesinger Jr., makes the Eurocentric claim that Europe was “also the source —the unique source—of those liberating ideas of in ...

Founders, 117; Warren Lowes, Indian Giver (Penticton, British Columbia: Theytus Books, 1986), 51; William B. Newell, “Contributi ...

73 Quoted in Kupperman, Settling with the Indians, 185. See also Jennings, The Invasion of America, 220. 74 Bradford, Of Plimoth ...

84 Carleton Beals, American Earth (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1939), 327- 30; Steven Hahn, “Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging,” Radi ...

167. 96 Gordon Craig, “History as a Humanistic Discipline,” in Paul Gagnon, ed., Historical Literacy (New York: Macmillan, 1989) ...

105 Wright, The Only Land They Knew, 235; Nash, Red, White, and Black; Axtell, “The White Indians.” 106 Francis Jennings, Empire ...

119 Charles M. Segal and David C. Stineback, Puritans, Indians, and Manifest Destiny (New York: Putnam, 1977), 48. Turner, Beyon ...

CHAPTER 5: “GONE WITH THE WIND”: THE INVISIBILITY OF RACISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS 1 Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morni ...

time. Admittedly, it is first a romance, but its larger social setting is primarily about race. Time, 2/14/1977, tells of the po ...

13 Nancy Bauer’s The American Way says little about slavery as experienced by slaves, but she does mention slave revolts and the ...

19 Pageant does supply a short quote from this document, but it is so vague that few readers will understand it. 20 Bessie L. Pi ...

York: Random House, 1976), 30. On blacks’ influence among the Seminoles, see Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., Africans and Creeks (We ...

38 Paul Finkelman, “Treason Against the Hopes of the World: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Slavery” (Washington, D.C.: Nati ...

Chester Miller, The Wolf by the Ears (New York: Free Press, 1977), 134-37. 48 Piero Gleijesus “The Limits of Sympathy,” Journal ...

slavery.” 56 Thomas David Schoonover, Dollars Over Dominion (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978), 41, 78. 57 Pa ...

Radicals felt that it was not enough to give Blacks the same rights as Whites,” so they “managed to pass the Fourteenth Amendmen ...

minorities typically fare better outside their home societies. 73 Michael L. Cooper, Playing America’s Game (New York: Lodestar, ...

80 In The Mississippi Chinese, 48, I show that black economic success in itself affronted white Southerners and was hard to main ...