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Apr 2, 2019 · 4.17. 762 ratings148 reviews. Now adapted for young readers in grades 7 and up, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity. Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time.
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Jan 1, 1995 · A decade and a half ago, in America Revised, Frances FitzGerald demonstrated that widely used school textbooks presented simplistic, fatuous, and often inaccurate versions of American history.
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Aug 4, 1995 · 69,894 ratings3,851 reviews. This national best-seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. Lies My Teacher Told Me won the American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship.
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In 1995, James W. Loewen, who holds a PhD in sociology, read twelve of the most popular American history textbooks at the time and critiqued them for accuracy and inclusiveness. In 2007, he read another six textbooks and revised his original work accordingly. He published an edition with a preface about the era of “fake news” in 2018. The main body...
Hmmm…. Where to start? I mostly found this book fascinating and the inaccurate history we are taught infuriating but I also had problems with the tone. I’ll start with the positives. One of my high school classmates recommended this book on Facebook and that opened a discussion about how abysmal the history department in our school was. I don’t hav...
If you liked Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, you might also like my review of 1. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angelsby Jon Meacham A similar book that I’ve read and recommend but haven’t reviewed is 1. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Oct 1, 2003 · PDF | On Oct 1, 2003, Jere T. Humphreys published Book Review: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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Mar 13, 2023 · The book cites statistics showing 14% of students aged 3 to 21 now are in special education classes. — Elected officials intrude in ways not seen before in American education, mandating, for example, that teachers avoid slavery realities that might make students feel guilty.
