The Mound Builder Myth: Fake History and the Hunt for a Lost White Race

by Jason Colavito

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806164611
• ISBN13: 9780806164618
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"