Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong
by Loewen, James W. (Author)
Summary
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... Full description
- 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.