Table of Contents Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments THE FAR WEST 1. The Tallest Mountain—The Silliest Naming - ALASKA Denali (Mt. McKinley) 2. King Kamehameha 1, The Roman! - HAWAII Honolulu 3. The Flat Earth Myth on the West Coast - CALIFORNIA Sacramento 4. Exploiting vs. Exterminating the Natives - CALIFORNIA Sacramento 5. China Beach Leaves Out the Bad Parts - CALIFORNIA San Francisco 6. Killing a Man is Not News - CALIFORNIA Downieville 7. Don’t “Discover” ‘Til You See The Eyes of The Whites! - OREGON La Grande 8. No Communists Here! - WASHINGTON Cowlitz County 9. Using Nationalism to Redefine a Troublesome Statue - WASHINGTON Centralia 10. What We Know And What We Don’t Know About Rock Art - NEVADA Hickison Summit 11. Don’t Criticize Big Brother - NEVADA Nye County MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS STATES 12. Circle The Wagons, Boys—It’s Tourist Season - IDAHO Almo 13. Bad Things Happen In The Passive Voice - UTAH North of St. George 14. Calling Native Americans Bad Names - ARIZONA Navajo Reservation 15. No Confederate Dead? No Problem! Invent Them! - MONTANA Helena 16. A Woman Shoulda Done It! - WYOMING South Pass City 17. Tall Tales in the West - COLORADO Pagosa Springs 18. Licking the Corporate Hand That Feeds You - COLORADO Leadville 19. The Footloose Statue - NEW MEXICO Alcalde THE GREAT PLAINS 20. The Oklahoma State History Museum Confederate Room Tells No History - ... 21. Which Came First, Wilderness or Civilization? - KANSAS Gardner 22. No Lesbians on the Landscape - NEBRASKA Red Cloud 23. American Indians Only Roved for about a Hundred Years - SOUTH DAKOTA Brookings 24. The Devil is Winning, Six to One - NORTH DAKOTA Devils Lake THE MIDWEST 25. “Serving The Cause Of Humanity” - MINNESOTA St. Paul 26. Red Men Only—No Indians Allowed - IOWA Muscatine 27. Domesticating Mark Twain - MISSOURI Hannibal 28. Not the First Auto - WISCONSIN Racine 29. America’s Most Toppled Monument - ILLINOIS Chicago 30. Coming into Indiana Minus a Body Part - INDIANA Graysville 31. The Invisible Empire Remains Invisible - INDIANA Indianapolis 32. Putting the He in Hero - KENTUCKY: Lexington 33. Abraham Lincoln’s Birthplace Cabin—Built Thirty Years after His Death! - ... 34. Honoring a Segregationist - MICHIGAN Dearborn 35. Who Menaced Whom? - OHIO Delaware THE SOUTH 36. “No Nation Rose So White and Fair; None Fell So Free of Crime” - TEXAS Gainesville 37. The Only Honest Sundown Town in the United States - TEXAS Alba 38. It Never Got Off the Ground - TEXAS Pittsburg 39. The Real War Will Never Get into the War Museums - TEXAS Fredericksburg 40. This Building Used to be a Hardware Store - TEXAS Galveston 41. Which Came First, the Statue or the Oppression? - ARKANSAS Grant County 42. Men Make History; Women Make Wives - ARKANSAS Little Rock 43. Suppressing a Slave Revolt for the Second Time - LOUISIANA Laplace 44. Mystifying the Colfax Riot and Lying About Reconstruction - LOUISIANA Colfax 45. The White League Begins to Take a Beating - LOUISIANA New Orleans 46. The Toppled “Darky” - LOUISIANA Baton Rouge 47. Let Us Now Praise Famous Thieves - LOUISIANA Fort Jackson 48. The End of Reconstruction - MISSISSIPPI Hazlehurst 49. A Black College Celebrates White Racists - MISSISSIPPI Itta Bena 50. If Russia Can Do It, Why Can’t We? - ALABAMA Calhoun County 51. Confining Helen Keller under House Arrest - ALABAMA Tuscumbia 52. Famous Everywhere but at Home - ALABAMA Scottsboro 53. Remember Fort Pillow! - TENNESSEE Fort Pillow 54. Forrest Rested Here - TENNESSEE Woodbury 55. A Confederate-KKK Shrine Encounters Turbulence - GEORGIA Stone Mountain 56. The Missing Town of Rosewood - FLORIDA Near Cedar Key 57. The Beech Island Agricultural Club Was Hardly What the Marker Implies - ... 58. To the Loyal Slaves - SOUTH CAROLINA Fort Mill 59. Who Burned Columbia? - SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia 60. The Last Major Confederate Offensive of the Civil War - NORTH CAROLINA ... 61. The Invisible Slave Trade - VIRGINIA Alexandria 62. The Clash of the Martyrs - VIRGINIA Alexandria 63. “One of the Great Female Spies of All Times” - VIRGINIA Richmond 64. Slavery and Redemption - VIRGINIA Richmond 65. The Liberation of Richmond - VIRGINIA Richmond 66. Abraham Lincoln Walks through Richmond - VIRGINIA Richmond 67. Getting Even the Numbers Wrong - VIRGINIA Appomattox 68. A Sign of Good Breeding - VIRGINIA Stickleyville THE ATLANTIC STATES 69. Is California West of the Alleghenies? - WEST VIRGINIA Union 70. Juxtaposing Quotations to Misrepresent the Founding Father - DISTRICT OF ... 71. A Product of Its Time and All Time - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Lincoln Memorial 72. “No History to Tell” - MARYLAND Hampton 73. The Reverse Underground Railroad - DELAWARE Reliance 74. Telling Amusing Incidents For The Tourists - PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia 75. George Washington’s Desperate Prayer - PENNSYLVANIA Valley Forge 76. “You’re Here to See the House” - PENNSYLVANIA Lancaster 77. South Carolina Defines the Civil War in 1965 - PENNSYLVANIA Gettysburg 78. Remember the “Splendid Little War”—Forget the Tawdry Larger Wars - ... 79. Celebrating Illegal Submarine Warfare - PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia 80. The Pilgrims and Religious Freedom - NEW JERSEY Trenton 81. Making Native Americans Look Stupid - NEW YORK Manhattan 82. Which George Washington? - NEW YORK Alabama 83. John Brown’s Plaque Puts Blacks At The Bottom! - NEW YORK North Elba 84. The Union League Club: Traitors to Their Own Cause - NEW YORK Manhattan 85. Selective Memory at the USS Intrepid - NEW YORK Manhattan NEW ENGLAND 86. Omitting the Town’s Continuing Claim to Fame - CONNECTICUT Darien 87. The Problem Of The Common - MASSACHUSETTS Boston 88. Celebrating Genocide - MASSACHUSETTS Amherst 89. What a Monument Ought to Be - MASSACHUSETTS Boston 90. Shards of Minstrelsy on a Far-North Campus - VERMONT Burlington 91. Local History Wars - NEW HAMPSHIRE Peterborough and Dublin 92. “Effective Political Leader” - NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord 93. “Settlement” Means Fewer People! - RHODE ISLAND Block Island 94. Fighting Over the “Good Indian” - RHODE ISLAND Warren and Barrington 95. At Last—An Accurate Marker - MAINE Bar Harbor Snowplow Revisionism Getting into a Dialogue with the Landscape