In Miseducating Americans, Richard F. Hamilton examines accounts
of American history appearing in textbooks and popular accounts and
compares these with the reports contained in scholarly monographs.
The task: to determine how certain myths and misconstructions
became accepted as recorded history. Hamilton provides much needed
correction of those misleading accounts.
Was America historically the "land of the free?" Not if you take
into account slavery, discrimination, and post-Civil War
segregation policies. Was America in the late nineteenth century
truly expansionist, as American textbooks imply, or did it actually
capitalize on unexpected political and economic opportunities, like
Russia's desire to rid itself of Alaska? Was the acquisition of the
Philippines a zealous profit-seeking effort aiming for "the China
market," or the fortuitous consequences of a move against Spain
during the Spanish-American War?
Miseducating Americans debunks many commonly accepted
explanations of historical facts. It contends that many accounts
are oversimplifications, and some are one-sided depictions of
virtue. Hamilton traces the sources of these misconstructions,
which mostly come from history textbooks written by authors aiming
for "popular audiences." He then offers explanations as to how and
why the inaccuracies have been repeated and passed on.
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