Thursday, March 24, 2011

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Textbooks winner of the American Book Award and won the C. Oliver CoxAnti Racism American Sociological AssociationAmericans lost touch with their history, and lying on the teacher told me, Professor James Loewen shows why. After reviewing eighteen hours leading American history textbooks, said that not doing a good job of making the story interesting and memorable. This was due to a combination of awkward blind patriotism, blind optimism, the same misinformation and lies, these books leave almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict and drama, we past.In this revised edition, packed with updated material, Loewen explores how historical myths are still ongoing in the current climate and add the number of open eyes in the surrounding 9 / 11 and the war in Iraq. The historical truth about the voyage of Columbus honest assessment of our nation's leading ..
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