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Lies my teacher told me, everything your American history textbook got wrong, James W. Loewen

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Lies my teacher told me, everything your American history textbook got wrong, James W. Loewen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-436) and index

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mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lies my teacher told me

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

722392498

Responsibility statement

James W. Loewen

Sub title

everything your American history textbook got wrong

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Something has gone very wrong -- Handicapped by history: the process of hero-making -- 1493 : the true importance of Christopher Columbus -- 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 -- 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

Target audience

adultadolescent

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