Lies Across America, a 1999 book by James Loewen, is a sequel to his 1995 work, Lies My Teacher Told Me. The book focuses on historical markers and museums across the United States, arguing that every historic site is "a tale of two eras": the one from when the event happened and the one from when the event was commemorated.

"Loewen's book voices complaints about historical markers in the United States. Historical markers established in the Southern United States were an attempt to whitewash the history of slavery and the period of Reconstruction. Many of these markers were established between 1890 and 1920, the nadir of American race relations. Most were placed by organizations with pro-Confederate agendas and reflect the racism of the early 20th century. While some markers have been altered in the last 40 years as a result of civil rights progress, many have not, especially those at American Civil War battle sites and in the South. " -Excerpted from Wikipedia.

Quotes from the book:

From the dedication, “…to the activists and scholars, whose numbers are increasing who work to get our public history to become more accurate so our society can become more just.”

Loewen wrote that “the Confederates won with the pen (and the noose) what they could not win on the battlefield: the cause of white supremacy and the dominant understanding of what the war was all about.”

“When only one segment of society—usually the white elite—controls public memory, distorted history is the result.”

Lies Across America is one of the most definitive and expansive works on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history after the Civil War.