In what ways were we warped? -- Some functions of public history -- The sociology of historic sites -- Historic sites are always a tale of two eras -- Hieratic scale in historic monuments -- The Far West -- Alaska : Denali (Mt. McKinley) : The tallest mountain, the silliest name -- Hawaii : Honolulu : King Kamehameha I, the Roman! -- California : Sacramento : The flat Earth myth on the West Coast -- California : Sacramento : Exploiting vs. exterminating the Natives -- California : San Francisco : China Beach leaves out the bad parts -- California : Downieville : Killing a man is not news -- Oregon : La Grande : Don't "discover" 'til you see the eyes of the Whites -- Washington : Cowlitz County : No Communists here! -- Washington : Centralia : Using nationalism to redefine a troublesome statue -- Nevada : Hickison Summit : What we know and what we don't know about rock art -- Nevada : Nye County : Don't criticize Big Brother -- The Mountains -- Idaho : Almo : Circle the wagons, boys, it's tourist season -- Utah : North of St. George : Bad things happen in the passive voice -- Arizona : Navajo Reservation : Calling Native Americans bad names -- Montana : Helena : No Confederate dead? No problem! Invent them! -- Wyoming : South Pass City : A woman shoulda done it! -- Colorado : Leadville : Licking the corporate hand that feeds you -- New Mexico : Alcalde : The footloose statue --
The Great Plains -- Oklahoma : Oklahoma City : The Oklahoma State History Museum Confederate Room tells no history -- Kansas : Gardner : Which came first, wilderness or civilization? -- Nebraska : Red Cloud : No lesbians on the landscape -- South Dakota : Brookings : American Indians only roved for about a hundred years -- North Dakota : Devils Lake : The devil is winning, six to one -- The Midwest -- Minnesota : St. Paul : "Serving the cause of humanity" -- Iowa : Muscatine : Red Men only : no Indians allowed -- Missouri : Hannibal : Domesticating Mark Twain -- Wisconsin : Racine : Not the first auto -- Illinois : Chicago : America's most toppled monument -- Indiana : Graysville : Coming into Indiana minus a body part -- Indiana : Indianapolis : The invisible empire remains invisible -- Kentucky : Lexington : Putting the He in Hero -- Kentucky : Hodgenville : Abraham Lincoln's birthplace cabin : built thirty years after his death! -- Michigan : Dearborn : Honoring a Segregationist -- Ohio : Delaware : Who menaced whom? -- The South -- Texas : Gainesville : "No nation rose so white and fair ; non fell so free of crime" -- Texas : Alba : The only honest sundown town in the United States -- Texas : Pittsburg : It never got off the ground -- Texas : Fredericksburg : The real war will never get into the war museums -- Texas : Galveston : This building used to be a hardware store -- Arkansas : Little Rock : Men make history ; women make wives -- Louisiana : Laplace : Suppressing a slave revolt for the second time -- Louisiana : Colfax : Mystifying the Colfax Riot and lying about Reconstruction -- Louisiana : New Orleans : The White League begins to take a beating -- Louisiana : Baton Rouge : The toppled "Darky" -- Louisiana : Fort Jackson : Let us now praise famous thieves -- Mississippi : Itta Bena : A Black college celebrates White racists -- Alabama : Calhoun County : If Russia can do it, why can't we? -- Alabama : Tuscumbia : Confining Helen Keller under house arrest -- Alabama : Scottsboro : Famous everywhere but home -- Tennessee : Fort Pillow : Remember Fort Pillow! -- Tennessee : Woodbury : Forrest rested here -- Georgia : Stone Mountain : A Confederate-KKK shrine encounters turbulence -- Florida : Near Cedar Key : The missing town of Rosewood -- South Carolina : Beech Island : The Beech Island Agricultural Club was hardly what the marker implies -- South Carolina : Fort Mill : To the loyal slaves -- South Carolina : Columbia : Who burned Columbia? -- North Carolina : Bentonville Battlefield : The last major Confederate offensive of the Civil War -- Virginia : Alexandria : The invisible salve trade -- Virginia : Alexandria : The clash of the martyrs -- Virginia : Richmond : "One of the great female spies of all times" -- Virginia : Richmond : Slavery and redemption -- Virginia : Richmond : The liberation of Richmond -- Virginia : Richmond : Abraham Lincoln walks through Richmond -- Virginia : Appomattox : Getting even the numbers wrong -- Virginia : Stickleyville : A sign of good breeding --
West Virginia : Union : Is California West of the Alleghenies?
District of Columbia : Jefferson Memorial : Juxtaposing quotations to misrepresent a Founding Father
Maryland : Hampton : "No history to tell"
Delaware : Reliance : The reverse Underground Railroad
Pennsylvania : Philadelphia : Telling amusing incidents for the tourists
Pennsylvania : Valley Forge : George Washington's desperate prayer
Pennsylvania : Lancaster : "You're here to see the house"
Pennsylvania : Gettysburg : South Carolina defines the Civil War in 1965
Pennsylvania : Philadelphia : Remember the "Splendid Little War" : forget the tawdry larger wars
Pennsylvania : Philadelphia : Celebrating illegal submarine warfare
New Jersey : Trenton : The Pilgrims and religious freedom
New York : Manhattan : Making Native Americans look stupid
New York : Alabama : Which George Washington?
New York : North Elba : John Brown's plaque puts Blacks at the bottom!
New York : Manhattan : The Union League Club : traitors to their own cause
New York : Manhattan : Selective memory at U.S.S. Intrepid
Connecticut : Darien : Omitting the town's continuing claim to fame
Massachusetts : Boston : The problem of the common
Massachusetts : Amherst : Celebrating genocide
Vermont : Burlington : Shards of minstrelsy on a far-north campus
New Hampshire : Peterborough and Dublin : Local history wars
New Hampshire : Concord : "Effective political leader"
Rhode Island : Block Island : "Settlement" means fewer people!
Rhode Island : Warren and Barrington : Fighting over the "Good Indian"
Maine : Bar Harbor : At last, an accurate marker.
