Lies my teacher told me
everything your American history textbook got wrong
by James W. Loewen
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Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.
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Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong
2007, Simon & Schuster
in English
- 2nd ed. completely rev. and updated
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Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong
1996, Simon & Schuster
in English
- 1st Touchstone ed.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
1995, The New Press
Paperback
in English
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Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong
1994, New Press, Distributed by Norton
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-375) and index.
"A Touchstone book."
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Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions. What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the Mai Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should -- and could -- be taught to American students. - Publisher.
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