Lies my teacher told me everything your American history textbook got wrong
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...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Lies my teacher told me : |b everything your American history textbook got wrong / |c James W. Loewen. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b New Press, |c 2008. | ||
| 300 | |a xix, 444 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a "Completely revised and updated"--Cover. | ||
| 500 | |a "A trade paperback of this edition was published by Touchstone, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 2007. This hardcover edition published by The New Press, New York, 2008." - Title page verso. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-436) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: Something has gone very wrong -- Handicapped by history: the process of hero-making -- 1493: the true importance of Christopher Columbus -- Truth about the first Thanksgiving -- Red eyes -- "Gone with the wind": the invisibility of racism in American history textbooks -- John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: the invisibility of antiracism in American history textbooks -- The land of opportunity -- Watching Big Brother: what textbooks teach about the federal government -- See no evil: choosing not to look at the war in Vietnam -- Down the memory hole: the disappearance of the recent past -- Progress is our most important product -- Why is history taught like this? -- What is the result of teaching history like this? -- Afterword: The future lies ahead--and what to do about them. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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