Lies my teacher told me : everything American history textbooks get wrong

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Label

Lies my teacher told me : everything American history textbooks get wrong

Title remainder

everything American history textbooks get wrong

Statement of responsibility

James W. Loewen ; adapted by Rebecca Stefoff

Creator

• Loewen, James W

Contributor

• Loewen, James W
• Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951-

Author

• Loewen, James W

Subject

• Adaptations
• Historiography
• History
• Indians of North America in textbooks
• Indians of North America in textbooks -- Juvenile literature
• Instructional and educational works
• Instructional and educational works
• JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / General
• JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / General
• JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / Other
• Juvenile works
• Racism in textbooks
• Racism in textbooks -- Juvenile literature
• Textbooks
• Thanksgiving Day in textbooks
• Thanksgiving Day in textbooks -- Juvenile literature
• United States
• United States -- Historiography -- Juvenile literature
• United States -- History -- Textbooks | Juvenile literature
• Adaptations

Genre

• Instructional and educational works
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• Textbooks
• History
• Adaptations

Language

eng

Summary

• Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history
• Loewen examined leading high school American history texts, and concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. In this edition, adapted for young readers, he helps students develop a deeper understanding of our world. He begins with Native American history, and covers diverse events up to the present day
• Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18. Essential reading in our age of fake news and slippery, sloppy history, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition cuts through the mindless optimism and outright lies found in most textbooks that are often not even really written by their "authors." Beginning with pre-Columbian history and then covering characters and events as diverse as the first Thanksgiving, Helen Keller, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War. This streamlined young readers' edition is rich in vivid details and quotations from primary sources that poke holes in the textbook versions of history and help students develop a deeper understanding of our world. - From publisher's description

Member of

• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

Ages 12-18

LC call number

• E77.4
• E175.85

LC item number

.L64 2019e

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Target audience

juvenile

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