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Colonial America: Facts and Fictions

Colonial America: Facts and Fictions

Goss, K. David
Grishin, A.

Hardcover

Series: Historical Facts and Fictions

Colonial Period (1600-1775)General World History

ISBN10: 1440864268
ISBN13: 9781440864261
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Jan 13 2021
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and eye-opening in major and minor ways, this book will be valuable not only to academics but to all readers. -Library Journal

This book provides the essential, primary documentation needed to clarify, readjust, and, in some cases, destroy the many commonly held myths of America's colonial past.

America's past is in many respects misunderstood and distorted. Misconceptions abound about Columbus and his discovery; Jamestown, John Smith, and Pocahontas; the Salem Witch Trials; and even the American Revolution. What is often lacking in texts on these events and people is a narrative with a solid underpinning of primary sources that clearly explains how misconceptions began, how they were perpetuated, and finally how they made their way into contemporary American popular culture.

Colonial America: Facts and Fictions separates myth from reality. The authors explore 10 popular myths about the period, each of which is examined in terms of its origin and how it became ensconced in American memory. It uses primary sources to explain the evolution of the myths and to inform readers about what actually happened. This book explains all of this, and most importantly exposes the modern reader to those essential primary source documents that clarify the distortions and disprove the popular misconceptions of the past.

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