Lies my teacher told me [electronic resource] : everything your American history textbook got wrong / James W. Loewen.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781595586537 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1595586539 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 444 p.) : ill., maps.
- Edition: Touchstone trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : The New Press, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Completely revised and updated"--Cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-436) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. History. Textbooks. |