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...
| Main Author: | Loewen, James W. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.