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Author Loewen, James W.

Title Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong / James W. Loewen. [Boundless electronic resource]

Edition Revised.
Publication Info. New Press, 2008.
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Contents Introduction: Something has gone very wrong -- 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 -- See no evil : choosing not to look at the War in Vietnam -- 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? -- Afterword : The future lies ahead--and what to do about them.
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Subject Indians of North America in textbooks.
Thanksgiving Day in textbooks.
Historiography.
Indians of North America in textbooks.
Thanksgiving Day in textbooks.
United States -- History -- Textbooks.
United States -- Historiography.
United States.
Genre Electronic books.
History.
Textbooks.
Textbooks.
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ISBN 9781595586537 : $26.99
1595586539 : $26.99
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