Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages383 pages
ISBN
9780684818863
Published
1995
Description
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in professor James Loewen Shows why. After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making histor...Americans have lost touch with their history, and in professor James Loewen Shows why. After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past.
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