Author: Jason Colavito
Publication Date: February 20, 2020
Length: 402 pages
Genre: Nonfiction, History, Archaeology, American Studies

The Mound Builder Myth: Fake History and the Hunt for a "Lost White Race" is the first comprehensive account of the 19th-century conspiracy to rewrite the history of North America’s ancient earthen mounds. Jason Colavito meticulously traces how a small group of influential Americans—politicians, religious leaders, and scholars—fabricated and promoted the false idea that these mounds were built not by Native Americans, but by a lost white race of “true” native Americans