Burge, Ryan P. 20 myths about religion and politics in America (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2022) -
Loewen, James W. Lies my teacher told me: Everything American history textbooks get wrong (New York: The New Press, 2019) -
Zakaras, Alex. The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022) - just the introduction defines the myth
Kevin M. Kruse & Julian E. Zelizer, eds. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past (NY: Basic Books, 2023) - wait for it...
Malik, Nesrine. We need new stories: The myths that subvert freedom (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021).
Rank, Mark R., Eppard, Lawrence M., and Bullock, Heather E. Poorly understood: What America gets wrong about poverty (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021).
Pierce, Jason. Daily life in the American West (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2022).
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