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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Touchstone 2007Edition: Touchstone trade paperback editionDescription: xix, 444 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780743296281
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973
Contents:
Introduction : something has gone very wrong
Handicapped by history : the process of hero-making
1493 : the true importance of Christopher Columbus
The 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
The 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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Book Book Project 7 Branch Reference Section Circulation C 973 L827l 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 122712d

"Completely revised and updated"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : something has gone very wrong

Handicapped by history : the process of hero-making

1493 : the true importance of Christopher Columbus

The 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

The 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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