Lies My Teacher Told Me

By James W. Loewen, Rebecca Stefoff

Subjects: Geschichtsklitterung, E175.85 .l64 2007, History--textbooks, Indians of north america, study and teaching, United states, historiography, United states, history, textbooks, Thanksgiving Day, Indians of north america, United states, history, Beeldvorming, Indians of north america in textbooks, Study and teaching, Indians of north america, juvenile literature, Thanksgiving day, juvenile literature, 973, Native Americans, Geschiedschrijving, Textbooks, Indians of North America, Thanksgiving Day in textbooks, Racism in textbooks, Geschiedenisonderwijs, Indians of north america, history, Historiography, Geschiedvervalsing, Indians of North America in textbooks, Thanksgiving day in textbooks, Native americans, United states, history, sources, History, Geschichtsunterricht, United states, history, juvenile literature, Thanksgiving day

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.