Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Very good book which is obviously the result of lots of research. It was well worth reading, but be prepared to be shocked and disappointed by how many spins, untruths and just plain lies have been written into our school history books. This should be required reading for every high school student - indeed, for every citizen of the US.

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Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and has sold over a million copies in its various editions.

What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should—and could—be taught to American students.

This new edition also features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author.

This book is a great read for historians and political buffs. This book should be placed in public school libraries as a supplement to "text" books. The real lies are printed in ordinary school text. Students of all ages (and parents) should read this book to truly learn our American History. This is not your "cutting down the cherry tree" history lessons. Find the real meaning of Columbus Day in this text.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Info

• Author: James W. Loewen


• Hardcover: 444 pages


• ISBN-10: 1595583262


• ISBN-13: 978-1595583260


• Publisher: New Press, The; Revised Edition edition (April 8, 2008)


• Language: English


• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.4 inches

About the Author

James W. Loewen is the bestselling author of Lies Across America and Sundown Towns (The New Press), among many other books and articles. He is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, D.C.

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