America’s Founding Myths…And What REALLY Happened
by Christy Mihaly (Goodreads Author), Marta Sevilla (Illustrator)
This book examines myths that some people believe about American history and tries to set the record straight. Unfortunately, it fails miserably.
The topics include the New World being discovered by Christopher Columbus, Pocahontas and John Smith, the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, Paul Revere’s ride, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and women and Native Americans and Black Americans fighting in the Revolutionary War.
This book has so many problems. The text is clearly trying to undermine American history and deconstruct American heritage. The author uses half-truths to reframe history and misrepresent what happened.
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