Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loewen, James W.
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [1996]
Edition:1st Touchstone ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Handicapped by history: the process of hero-making
  • 1493: the true importance of Christopher Columbus
  • Truth about the first Thanksgiving
  • Red eyes
  • "Gone with the wind": the invisibility of racism in American history textbooks
  • John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: the invisibility of antiracism in American history textbooks
  • Land of opportunity
  • Watching big brother: what textbooks teach about the federal government
  • Down the memory hole: the disappearance of the recent past
  • Progress is our most important product
  • Why is history taught like this?
  • What is the result of teaching history like this?