Contents
Preface
Introduction: How to Recognize the History Zombie
One: First Zombies: A people without a history/red men/Columbus/technology/puritans and pilgrims/witches
Two: Colonial and Revolutionary Zombies: Asylum /the frontier/a minister of state and his king/ Indians, slaves and the War for Independence/an age of democratic revolution/the Constitution and slavery
Three: Zombies of the Early Nation: Free markets/angels of the home/sambos and rebels/the agrarian South and industrial North/deranged abolitionists
Four: Civil War and Reconstruction Zombies: “States’ rights”/slavery and Civil War/”war between the states”/ Lincoln freed the slaves/ “the lost cause”/carpetbaggers and scalawags
Five: Gilded Age Zombies: “Jim Crow”/machines/robber barons
Six: Turn of the Century Zombies: Filthy dangerous immigrants/scabs/metal Zombies/Marxist Zombies
Seven: Modern Zombies: The ghetto/fear/Reds/eggheads
Eight: Postmodern Zombies: Conspiracies/memes/numbers/ big data/political correctness and white privilege/ dismay and despair
Epilogue: Where Zombies Go to Rest: Neologism/textbooks/AP tests/online misinformation
Bibliographical Essay
Index