num_pages: 375
description: Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans 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 that not one does 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 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.
language: English
title: Lies My Teacher Told Me
titlecomplete: Lies My Teacher Told Me
genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Education, History, Teaching, Historical, Sociology, Social Justice, American History, Politics
ratings_count: 67904
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award
publisher: Bt Bound