From Hitler to Hippies: The Volkswagen Bus in America by David Dyer Burnett‚ B.A. Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts The University of Texas at Austin May 2002 i From Hitler to Hippies: The Volkswagen Bus in America APPROVED BY SUPERVISING COMMITTEE: ____________________ Janet Davis ____________________ Jeffrey Meikle ii TABLE
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Dedicated to all American history teachers who teach against their textbooks Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Something Has Gone Very Wrong 1 • Handicapped by History; The Process of Hero-making 9 2 * 1493: The True Importance of Christopher Columbus 29 3 • The Truth about the First Thanksgiving 67 4 • Red Eyes 91 5 • "Gone with the Wind": The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks 131 6 • John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of Anti-racism in American
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