Myth America: The Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past




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ClassGraphic In Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past (Basic Books, 2022), a team of historians dissects the myths, misunderstandings, and falsehoods surrounding twenty major concepts in American History. The topics are both diverse and significant: American exceptionalism, the founding, immigration, America First, the magic of the marketplace, the New Deal, the Great Society, the Reagan Revolution, Confederate monuments, police violence and many other important subjects. Editors Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer note that we live in an age of disinformation in which the line between fact and fiction has become tenuous. This age stands apart from others in that much of the disinformation, deceptions, and distortions are deliberate, and intentional. The historians in this volume meticulously analyze the twists and spins that have been imparted to the facts about each of the subjects they consider, with many of those twists and spins serving the interests of partisan agendas.  You will emerge from this study group with a much clearer understanding of each of the topics we cover, and also with an education on how history can be bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated. 

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14 Session(s)
Weekly - Thu

Location
TBD

Instructor
Multiple

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Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
3/5/2026 - 6/4/2026 Weekly - Thu 09:45 AM - 11:45 AM TBD Laura Ann Wilber  ; James Smith 

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