Breaking with the traditionally white-centric and politician-,
military leader-, business magnate-dominated portrayal of American
history, "Still Casting Shadows: A Shared Mosaic of U.S. History"
presents a holistic overview of American history, giving equal
weight and emphasis to the viewpoints and experiences of Native
Americans, African Americans, and other marginalized groups.
Rather than simply parading forth facts and figures of what
"important" people accomplished or perpetrated, "Still Casting
Shadows" delves into what life was like for "average" families in
America-from 1620, when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth,
Massachusetts, up to the present day.
The lives of the individuals portrayed are cast in the context
of hundreds of events of national import that occurred in the times
and places in which they lived. Among those whose lives are thus
illuminated in this broad outline of American history are John
Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, passengers on the Mayflower who
subsequently married; Capt. John Gorham, a notorious Indian fighter
in Colonial New England; Susan Lucky, an Indian woman whose tribe
was massacred in northern California; James Shannon, a Civil War
sharpshooter who was at Gettysburg and Appomattox; and Theodore
Shannon, a California Highway Patrol officer who was awarded that
state's Medal of Valor in 1980.
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