Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong
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New York : New Press, 2008., New York : New Press, 2008.
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xix, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half 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 Mai 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. - Publisher
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 Mai 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.
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9781595583260, 1595583262, 9781620974674, 1620974673
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"Completely revised and updated"--Cover
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"A trade paperback of this edition was published by Touchstone, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 2007. This hardcover edition published by The New Press, New York, 2008"--Title page verso
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-436) and index.
Description
Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half 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 Mai 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. - Publisher
Description
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 Mai 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.
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Loewen, J. W. (2008). Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong. New York, New Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Loewen, James W. 2008. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York, New Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Loewen, James W, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York, New Press, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York, New Press, 2008.
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