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

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Loewen, James W.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Touchstone, 1996.
Subjects:	Indians of North America in textbooks. Thanksgiving Day in textbooks. United States > History > Textbooks. United States > Historiography.

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.

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