An edition of Lies My Teacher Told Me (1994)

Lies my teacher told me

everything your American history textbook got wrong

1st Touchstone ed.
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An edition of Lies My Teacher Told Me (1994)

Lies my teacher told me

everything your American history textbook got wrong

1st Touchstone ed.
  • 3.9 (14 ratings) ·
  • 125 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 19 Have read

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Publish Date
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
383

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Cover of: Lies my teacher told me
Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong
2007, Simon & Schuster
in English - 2nd ed. completely rev. and updated
Cover of: Lies my Teacher Told Me
Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything your American History Textbook got Wrong
2007, Touchstone Books (A Division of Simon & Schuster)
Paperback in English
Cover of: Lies My Teacher Told Me
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong
March 2005, New Press
Hardcover in English - 1st edition
Cover of: Lies my teacher told me
Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong
1996, Simon & Schuster
in English - 1st Touchstone ed.
Cover of: Lies My Teacher Told Me
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
1995, The New Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Lies my teacher told me
Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong
1994, New Press, Distributed by Norton
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-375) and index.
"A Touchstone book."

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973
Library of Congress
E175.85 .L64 1996, E175.85L64 1996, E175.85 L64 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
383 p. :
Number of pages
383

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL982401M
Internet Archive
liesmyteachertol0000loew
ISBN 10
0684818868
LCCN
96020050
OCLC/WorldCat
34767414, 504165124
Library Thing
8445
Goodreads
296662

Work Description

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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