Lies My Teacher Told Me
Subtitle: everything your American history textbook got wrong
Publisher: The New Press; New Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781595583260
Copyright date: 2007
Description: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Notes: "A trade paperback of this edition was published by Touchstone, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 2007. This hardcover edition published by The New Press, New York, 2008." - Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Something has gone very wrong; title: Handicapped by history : the process of hero-making; title: 1493 : the true importance of Christopher Columbus; title: 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: Land of opportunity; title: Watching big brother : what textbooks teach about the federal government; title: See no evil : choosing not to look at the War in Vietnam; 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: What is the result of teaching history like this?; title: Afterword : The future lies ahead and what to do about them