A review by desertjarhead505
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

5.0

A sort of traveling expose, debunking many of the instances in which history texts and classes have systematically censored history or twisted it into propaganda, both by telling lies and by leaving out significant events - putting image management ahead of honesty, apparently in the belief it is necessary to ensure students are properly patriotic. My daughter read parts of this book in junior high, and when she tried to share some of what she'd found out with one of her teachers, the teacher called her a liar (the story the teacher insisted was false was the true and well documented account of the induction of a sitting President, Warren G. Harding, into the KKK in a public ceremony at the White House.) A great counterweight to all the sanitized, often just plain lying picture of our country's history that most of our kids' schools offer in place of history taught honestly and appropriately.