History Bytes: People, Places, and Events that Shaped American History

Read this book, and you're gonna think, Wow! Why didn't somebody tell me that? American history is full of strange paradoxes, and that's what makes it so interesting. The truth is much of what we learn about history is a series of little white lies that over time have grown into tall tales.  Why doesn't everyone know the Boston Massacre wasn't really a massacre? Subsequent testimony proved the sol...