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.
The Mound Builder Myth is the first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds.
Would you call it Fake news? In nineteenth-century America, this was in fact a powerful truth that shaped Manifest Destiny.
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
