In What Ways Were We Warped? 15 --
Some Functions of Public History 25 --
Sociology of Historic Sites 29 --
Historic Sites are Always a Tale of Two Eras 36 --
Hieratic Scale in Historic Monuments 43 --
1 Alaska Denali (Mt. McKinley): The Tallest Mountain
2 Hawaii Honolulu: King Kamehameha I, The Roman! 54 --
3 California Sacramento: The Flat Earth Myth on the West Coast 57 --
4 California Sacramento: Exploiting vs. Exterminating the Natives 62 --
5 California San Francisco: China Beach Leaves Out the Bad Parts 67 --
6 California Downieville: Killing a Man is Not News 70 --
7 Oregon La Grande: Don't "Discover" 'Til You See the Eyes of the Whites! 74 --
8 Washington Cowlitz County: No Communists Here! 76 --
9 Washington Centralia: Using Nationalism to Redefine a Troublesome Statue 77 --
10 Nevada Hickison Summit: What We Know and What We Don't Know about Rock Art 81 --
11 Nevada Nye County: Don't Criticize Big Brother 84 --
Mountains and Plains States --
12 Idaho Almo: Circle The Wagons, Boys
13 Utah North of St. George: Bad Things Happen in the Passive Voice 93 --
14 Arizona Navajo Reservation: Calling Native Americans Bad Names 99 --
15 Montana Helena: No Confederate Dead? No Problem! Invent Them! 102 --
16 Wyoming South Pass City: A Woman Shoulda Done It! 108 --
17 Colorado Pagosa Springs: Tall Tales in the West 110 --
18 Colorado Leadville: Licking the Corporate Hand That Feeds You 113 --
19 New Mexico Alcalde: The Footloose Statue 119 --
20 Oklahoma Oklahoma City: The Oklahoma State History Museum Confederate Room Tells No History 123 --
21 Kansas Gardner: Which Came First, Wilderness or Civilization? 126 --
22 Nebraska Red Cloud: No Lesbians on the Landscape 127 --
23 South Dakota Brookings: American Indians Only Roved for about a Hundred Years 130 --
24 North Dakota Devils Lake: The Devil is Winning, Six to One 133 --
25 Minnesota St. Paul: "Serving the Cause of Humanity" 136 --
26 Iowa Muscatine: Red Men Only
27 Missouri Hannibal: Domesticating Mark Twain 148 --
28 Wisconsin Racine: Not the First Auto 151 --
29 Illinois Chicago: America's Most Toppled Monument 152 --
30 Indiana Graysville: Coming into Indiana Minus a Body Part 157 --
31 Indiana Indianapolis: The Invisible Empire Remains Invisible 161 --
32 Kentucky Lexington: Putting the He in Hero 164 --
33 Kentucky Hodgenville: Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace Cabin
Built Thirty Years after his Death!
34 Michigan Dearborn: Honoring a Segregationist 170 --
35 Ohio Delaware: Who Menaced Whom? 173 --
36 Texas Gainesville: "No Nation Rose So White and Fair; None Fell So Free of Crime" 177 --
37 Texas Alba: The Only Honest Sundown Town in the United States 182 --
38 Texas Pittsburg: It Never Got Off the Ground 186 --
39 Texas Fredericksburg: The Real War Will Never Get into the War Museums 188 --
40 Texas Galveston: This Building Used to be a Hardware Store 195 --
41 Arkansas Grant County: Which Came First, the Statue or the Oppression? 197 --
42 Arkansas Little Rock: Men Make History; Women Make Wives 200 --
43 Louisiana Laplace: Suppressing a Slave Revolt for the Second Time 206 --
44 Louisiana Colfax: Mystifying the Colfax Riot and Lying about Reconstruction 210 --
45 Louisiana New Orleans: The White League Begins to Take a Beating 214 --
46 Louisiana Baton Rouge: The Toppled "Darky" 220 --
47 Louisiana Fort Jackson: Let Us Now Praise Famous Thieves 227 --
48 Mississippi Hazlehurst: The End of Reconstruction 230 --
49 Mississippi Itta Bena: A Black College Celebrates White Racists 235 --
50 Alabama Calhoun County: If Russia Can do it, Why Can't We? 239 --
51 Alabama Tuscumbia: Confining Helen Keller under House Arrest 243 --
52 Alabama Scottsboro: Famous Everywhere but at Home 246 --
53 Tennessee Fort Pillow: Remember Fort Pillow! 250 --
54 Tennessee Woodbury: Forrest Rested Here 258 --
55 Georgia Stone Mountain: A Confederate-KKK Shrine Encounters Turbulence 261 --
56 Florida Near Cedar Key: The Missing Town of Rosewood 266 --
57 South Carolina Beech Island: The Beech Island Agricultural Club Was Hardly What the Marker Implies 268 --
58 South Carolina Fort Mill: To the Loyal Slaves 273 --
59 South Carolina Columbia: Who Burned Columbia? 279 --
60 North Carolina Bentonville Battlefield: The Last Major Confederate Offensive of The Civil War 288 --
61 Virginia Alexandria: The Invisible Slave Trade 290 --
62 Virginia Alexandria: The Clash of the Martyrs 294 --
63 Virginia Richmond: "One of the Great Female Spies of all Times" 298 --
64 Virginia Richmond: Slavery and Redemption 302 --
65 Virginia Richmond: The Liberation of Richmond 305 --
66 Virginia Richmond: Abraham Lincoln Walks through Richmond 310 --
67 Virginia Appomattox: Getting Even the Numbers Wrong 317 --
68 Virginia Stickleyville: A Sign of Good Breeding 320 --
69 West Virginia Union: Is California West of the Alleghenies? 325 --
70 District of Columbia Jefferson Memorial: Juxtaposing Quotations to Misrepresent a Founding Father 327 --
71 District of Columbia Lincoln Memorial: A Product of Its Time and All Time 333 --
72 Maryland Hampton: "No History To Tell" 338 --
73 Delaware Reliance: The Reverse Underground Railroad 352 --
74 Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Telling Amusing Incidents for the Tourists 357 --
75 Pennsylvania Valley Forge: George Washington's Desperate Prayer 362 --
76 Pennsylvania Lancaster: "You're Here to See the House" 367 --
77 Pennsylvania Gettysburg: South Carolina Defines the Civil War in 1965 371 --
78 Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Remember The "Splendid Little War"
Forget the Tawdry Larger Wars
79 Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Celebrating Illegal Submarine Warfare 381 --
80 New Jersey Trenton: The Pilgrims and Religious Freedom 383 --
81 New York Manhattan: Making Native Americans Look Stupid 385 --
82 New York Alabama: Which George Washington? 389 --
83 New York North Elba: John Brown's Plaque Puts Blacks at the Bottom! 390 --
84 New York Manhattan: The Union League Club: Traitors to Their Own Cause 394 --
85 New York Manhattan: Selective Memory at USS Intrepid 404 --
86 Connecticut Darien: Omitting the Town's Continuing Claim to Fame 408 --
87 Massachusetts Boston: The Problem of the Common 413 --
88 Massachusetts Amherst: Celebrating Genocide 415 --
89 Massachusetts Boston: What a Monument Ought to Be 419 --
90 Vermont Burlington: Shards of Minstrelsy on a Far-North Campus 425 --
91 New Hampshire Peterborough and Dublin: Local History Wars 430 --
92 New Hampshire Concord: "Effective Political Leader" 433 --
93 Rhode Island Block Island: "Settlement" Means Fewer People! 436 --
94 Rhode Island Warren and Barrington: Fighting over the "Good Indian" 438 --
95 Maine Bar Harbor: At Last
Snowplow Revisionism 443 --
Getting into a Dialogue with the Landscape 447 --
A Selecting the Sites 455 --
B Ten Questions to Ask at a Historic Site 459 --
C Twenty Candidates For "Toppling" 460.
