there's also zinn's "people's history of the united states"

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> Von: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]Im Auftrag von Kris
> Farmen
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 23. April 2002 12:33
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> Betreff: Re: Myth Busting
>
> On the subject of Historical Myth Busting, there's a very good
> and fun to read book
> called "I Love Paul Revere, Whether he Rode or Not!" By Richard
> Shenkman.  I read it
> for a history class when I was in high school; each chapter sets
> up a historical
> "fact", i.e. Prohibition didn't keep people from consuming
> alcohol, 18th century
> Caribbean pirates were bloodthirsty, savage barbarians (or,
> conversely, high-minded
> democratic and civilized); all the American colonists zealously
> supported the War for
> Independence, etc, then he evaluates them in terms of the actual
> evidence, debunking a
> lot of these "truths" as myths.  A very good read, certainly
> along the lines of what
> you're discussing. . .
>
>
> Kris Farmen
> Northern Land Use Research, Inc.
> Fairbanks, Alaska
>