Lies in History

Do you believe everything that your history teacher told you, what you read in a history book, or what you heard on the news? Don’t! Here are a few things that just might shock you about American History.

• George Washington never cut down a cherry tree. His biographer invented this story.
• Abner Doubleday did not invent the game of baseball. It seems that “America’s favorite pastime” originated in England. Read the story here.
• The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Unit in Kentucky does not have the actual cabin in which Lincoln was born. The actual birth cabin was never found on the land that he was born on and is thought to have fallen apart or been torn down.
• Charles Lindbergh was not the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and was not the first person to do the flight nonstop. He was, however, the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic solo. Click here to read more.
• The attack on Pearl Harbor was not a complete and total surprise. More info here.