Author: Charles Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Extinct Races of America- the Mound Builders
Author: Charles Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Mound Builders of Ancient America
Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780821408407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Our forebears, finding large, incomprehensible earthworks scattered down the Mississippi Valley, refused to believe they were built by the aborigines who still cluttered up the place and impeded settlement. Mr. Silverberg describes, with gleeful and copious quotation, the nineteenth-century literature of speculation which attributed these monuments to the Phoenicians, stray Vikings, the lost tribes of Israel, refugees from Atlantis, an extinct race of giants, and Welshmen. The book, which is charmingly written, ends with a history of the archeological work which gave the mounds back to the Indians. -- The Atlantic Monthly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780821408407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Our forebears, finding large, incomprehensible earthworks scattered down the Mississippi Valley, refused to believe they were built by the aborigines who still cluttered up the place and impeded settlement. Mr. Silverberg describes, with gleeful and copious quotation, the nineteenth-century literature of speculation which attributed these monuments to the Phoenicians, stray Vikings, the lost tribes of Israel, refugees from Atlantis, an extinct race of giants, and Welshmen. The book, which is charmingly written, ends with a history of the archeological work which gave the mounds back to the Indians. -- The Atlantic Monthly
Prehistoric Races of the United States of America
Author: John Wells Foster
Publisher: Chicago, S.C. Griggs & Company
ISBN:
Category : Mound-builders
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago, S.C. Griggs & Company
ISBN:
Category : Mound-builders
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Pre-historic Races of the United States of America
Author: John Wells Foster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Prehistoric Races of the United States
Author: J. W. Foster
Publisher: Hayriver Press
ISBN: 9780970398598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A reprint of the 1873 edition of J. W. Foster's treatise on mound-builders, Prehistoric Races of the United States is an eye-witness account of the majesty and mystery surrounding the earthworks and enclosures of North America. Early artifacts of wood, copper, stone and bone are discussed in full. This Mound-Building Culture covered western New York east to Missouri, south to Alabama, and then north to New York along the west side of the Appalachian Mountains. This is an eye-opening read into the early discoveries in America.
Publisher: Hayriver Press
ISBN: 9780970398598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A reprint of the 1873 edition of J. W. Foster's treatise on mound-builders, Prehistoric Races of the United States is an eye-witness account of the majesty and mystery surrounding the earthworks and enclosures of North America. Early artifacts of wood, copper, stone and bone are discussed in full. This Mound-Building Culture covered western New York east to Missouri, south to Alabama, and then north to New York along the west side of the Appalachian Mountains. This is an eye-opening read into the early discoveries in America.
Pre-Historic Races of the United States of America
Author: J. Foster
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368846744
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368846744
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Mound Builder Myth
Author: Jason Colavito
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Say you found that a few dozen people, operating at the highest levels of society, conspired to create a false ancient history of the American continent to promote a religious, white-supremacist agenda in the service of supposedly patriotic ideals. Would you call it fake news? In nineteenth-century America, this was in fact a powerful truth that shaped Manifest Destiny. The Mound Builder Myth is the first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of “true” native Americans. Thomas Jefferson’s pioneering archaeology concluded that the earthen mounds were the work of Native Americans. In the 1894 report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Cyrus Thomas concurred, drawing on two decades of research. But in the century in between, the lie took hold, with Presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln adding their approval and the Mormon Church among those benefiting. Jason Colavito traces this monumental deception from the farthest reaches of the frontier to the halls of Congress, mapping a century-long conspiracy to fabricate and promote a false ancient history—and enumerating its devastating consequences for contemporary Native people. Built upon primary sources and first-person accounts, the story that The Mound Builder Myth tells is a forgotten chapter of American history—but one that reads like the Da Vinci Code as it plays out at the upper reaches of government, religion, and science. And as far-fetched as it now might seem that a lost white race once ruled prehistoric America, the damage done by this “ancient” myth has clear echoes in today’s arguments over white nationalism, multiculturalism, “alternative facts,” and the role of science and the control of knowledge in public life.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Say you found that a few dozen people, operating at the highest levels of society, conspired to create a false ancient history of the American continent to promote a religious, white-supremacist agenda in the service of supposedly patriotic ideals. Would you call it fake news? In nineteenth-century America, this was in fact a powerful truth that shaped Manifest Destiny. The Mound Builder Myth is the first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of “true” native Americans. Thomas Jefferson’s pioneering archaeology concluded that the earthen mounds were the work of Native Americans. In the 1894 report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Cyrus Thomas concurred, drawing on two decades of research. But in the century in between, the lie took hold, with Presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln adding their approval and the Mormon Church among those benefiting. Jason Colavito traces this monumental deception from the farthest reaches of the frontier to the halls of Congress, mapping a century-long conspiracy to fabricate and promote a false ancient history—and enumerating its devastating consequences for contemporary Native people. Built upon primary sources and first-person accounts, the story that The Mound Builder Myth tells is a forgotten chapter of American history—but one that reads like the Da Vinci Code as it plays out at the upper reaches of government, religion, and science. And as far-fetched as it now might seem that a lost white race once ruled prehistoric America, the damage done by this “ancient” myth has clear echoes in today’s arguments over white nationalism, multiculturalism, “alternative facts,” and the role of science and the control of knowledge in public life.
Pre-Historic Races of the United States of America
Author: John Wells Foster
Publisher:
ISBN: 1402149158
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by S. C. Griggs and company in Chicago, 1873.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1402149158
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by S. C. Griggs and company in Chicago, 1873.
Pre-historic Races of the United States of America by J. W. Foster
Author: John Wells Foster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Mound-Builders
Author: H. C. Shetrone
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817350861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A classic resource on early knowledge of prehistoric mounds and the peoples who constructed them in the eastern United States
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817350861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A classic resource on early knowledge of prehistoric mounds and the peoples who constructed them in the eastern United States