errors, inventions, etc

"Every student grows up hearing about the first Thanksgiving, celebrated by the Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621. However, that wasn't the first Thanksgiving! It wasn't even the first one celebrated by European settlers! This is just one myth debunked in this ... look at colonial American history"--Provided by publisher.

Exposes myths about U.S. symbols and explains the facts behind them.

Exposes myths about the American Revolution and explains the facts behind them.

A collection of true stories illuminating little-known facts and events from American history and dispels many commonly held myths about key moments in American history.

Examines over one hundred markers, monuments, houses, and other historic sties in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, and discusses the lies and omissions that are being memorialized across the American countryside.

Some tall tales and legends of history that are accepted as facts are exposed as fiction.