Lies my teacher told me : everything American history textbooks get wrong
(2019)
By:
Loewen, James W.
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN/973/LOEWEN,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York ; London : The New Press, 2019
EDITION
Young readers' edition
DESCRIPTION
xviii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781620974698, 162097469X :, 9781620974698 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The problem with making heroes -- What did Columbus really do? -- The truth about the first Thanksgiving -- Through red eyes -- Invisible racism -- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and invisible idealism -- The land of opportunity -- Keeping an eye on the government -- Seeing no evil in Vietnam -- The disappearance of the recent past -- History and the future -- Does this way of teaching history work?
Ages 12-18