Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen ebook
ISBN: 9780743296281
Publisher: Touchstone
Page: 464
Format: pdf

May 9, 2014 - Rather than the fiction books that I normally review, today I will actually be writing about a nonfiction US history book—but it's not an average history book, as the title of the book, “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong,” indicates. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Now that we're all going to go off on our summer break, perhaps we should all take this time to really critique and think about the things we memorized to prepare for assessments this past year. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American history textbook got wrong. In response, Loewen wrote “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” a critique of existing books and a retelling of American history as it should – and could – be taught to American students. Jul 2, 2011 - Shared by:martin88 Written by James W. Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he was one of the most radical advocates of the American Revolution and republicanism, especially in his denunciations of corruption in government officials and his defense of . The comment below was taken from a blog post about the book. Mar 31, 2014 - Henry is remembered in history for his ringing "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech advocating independence from Great Britain. Jan 19, 2011 - Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong or A People's History of the United States ). Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong. Sep 7, 2012 - The Winona State University Inclusion and Diversity Office will host James Loewen, sociologist and author of “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong,” Monday, Sept. Sep 2, 2013 - I'm currently writing an introductory textbook on the Sociology of Religion entitled Sociology of Religion: A Mystical and Scientific Approach. Loewen (1996) Lies my teacher told me, everything your american history textbook got wrong, is the best children's informational text book, I have read.