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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

(1995, Hardcover)

High school sudents hate history. When they list their favorite subject, history always comes in last. They condider it " the most irrelevant" of twenty-one schools subjects: 'bo-o-o-oring" is the adjective most often applied. James Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying twelve leading high school textbooks of American history. What he found was an embarrassing amalgam of bland optimism, blind patriotism, and misinformation pure and simple, weighing in at an average of four-and-a -half pounds and 888 pages. existing textbooks but, more importantly, a wonderful retelling of Amerian history as it should and could be tought to American students. Beginning with pre-columbian American history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as reconstruction. Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre, Loewen supplies the conflict, suspense, unresolved drama, and connection with current-day issues so appallingly missing from textbook accounts.

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Pages: 372

 

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