Lies my teacher told me
Subtitle: everything your American history textbook got wrong
By: James W. Loewen
Edition: 10th anniversary ed.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Norton
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Historiography; Racism in textbooks; Textbooks; History; Thanksgiving Day in textbooks; Indians of North America in textbooks
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-367) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: something has gone very wrong; title: 1493 : the true importance of Christopher Columbus; title: The truth about the first Thanksgiving; title: Red eyes; title: "Gone with the wind" : the invisibility of racism in American history textbooks; title: John Brown and Abraham Lincoln : the invisibility of antiracism in American history textbooks; title: The land of opportunity; title: Watching Big Brother : what textbooks teach about the federal government; title: Down the memory hole : the disappearance of the recent past; title: Progress is our most important product; title: Why is history taught like this?; title: Afterword: the future lies ahead; title: and what to do about them.