Teaching what really happened
Subtitle: how to avoid the tyranny of textbooks and get students excited about doing history
By: James W. Loewen.
Series: Multicultural education series
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Columbia University
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780807749920; 9780807749913
Subjects: United States -- History -- Textbooks; United States -- History -- Study and teaching; United States -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : History as weapon; title: The tyranny of coverage; title: Expecting excellence; title: Historiography; title: Doing history; title: How and when did people get here?; title: Why did Europe win?; title: The $24 myth; title: Teaching slavery; title: Why did the south secede?; title: The Nadir; title: Afterword : Still more ways to teach history; title: About the author