Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong /
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[1996]
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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?