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Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen (1996, Trade Paperback)

Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist ScholarshipAmericans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded thatnot onedoes a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful chapters, Loewen reveals that: The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses.

Book Title
Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Author
James W. LÖWEN
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, United States / General
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Education, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages

Lc Classification Number
E175.85l64 1996
Reviews
Jon WienerThe Nation"One of the virtues of Loewen's book is that in addition to highlighting some subjects the textbooks neglect, he also examines the topics they emphasize.", Sandy LydonSan Jose Mercury News"Every history teacher in the land (including Professor Gingrich) needs to read this book.", Publishers Weekly"Readers interested in history, whether liberal or conservative, professional or layperson, will find food for thought here."
Table of Content
Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Something Has Gone Very Wrong1 Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-making2 1493: The True Importance of Christopher Columbus5 The Truth about the First Thanksgiving4 Red Eyes5 "Gone with the Wind": The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks6 John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of Antiracism in American History Textbooks7 The Land of Opportunity8 Watching Big Brother: What Textbooks Teach about the Federal Government9 Down the Memory Hole: The Disappearance of the Recent Past10 Progress Is Our Most Important Product11 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 ThemNotesAppendixIndex
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
96-020050
Dewey Decimal
973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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