Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong /
"High school students hate history. When they list their favorite subjects, history always comes in last. They consider it "the most irrelevant" of twenty-one school subjects; "bo-o-o-oring" is the adjective most often applied. James Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Press :
[1995]
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| Series: | History (Booknotes)
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| Online Access: | Program air date: March 26, 1995 |
Table of Contents:
- [Table of Contents]
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Something Has Gone Very Wrong
- 1. Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-making
- 2. 1493: The True Importance of Christopher Columbus
- 3. The Truth about the First Thanksgiving
- 4. Red Eyes
- 5. "Gone with the Wind": The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks
- 6. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of Antiracism in American History Textbooks
- 7. The Land of Opportunity
- 8. Watching Big Brother: What Textbooks Teach about the Federal Government
- 9. Down the Memory Hole: The Disappearance of the Recent Past
- 10. Progress Is Our Most Important Product
- 11. Why Is History Taught Like This?
- 12. What Is the Result of Teaching History Like This?
- Afterword: The Future Lies Ahead - and What to Do about Them
- Notes
- Appendix
- Index.