Lies my teacher told me everything your American history textbook got wrong
Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important--and successful--history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship an...
| Main Author: | Loewen, James W. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The New Press,
[2018]
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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
- The 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.