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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
4.0
This book was published in 1996, before elementary schools had computers, before Wikipedia was the starting point for every high-schooler's research paper, before life as we now know it began. But, my history classes were taught from books published before 1996, and my teachers were educated before then. If it weren't for my need to read-all-things-published, my exposure to history might have ended where most Americans does, at graduation.
Loewen spent a decade reviewing 12 popular high school history textbooks, and published his findings. He makes a fair case for the idea that our history books don't tell the whole story, and in some cases, don't tell the truth.
If you graduated from high school longer than 10 years ago, you'll be as fascinated as I was to learn the dark side of our national heros. Yes, I knew Jefferson owned slaves, but I didn't know Betsy Ross didn't sew the flag, and I didn't know there was a plague that wiped out an entire tribe leaving only Squanto to help the Pilgrims plant that corn, and I didn't know Pilgrim was a made-up term. As a matter of fact, there was a lot I didn't know ...
Worth picking up if you're remotely interested in US History, or in education, or have children.
Loewen spent a decade reviewing 12 popular high school history textbooks, and published his findings. He makes a fair case for the idea that our history books don't tell the whole story, and in some cases, don't tell the truth.
If you graduated from high school longer than 10 years ago, you'll be as fascinated as I was to learn the dark side of our national heros. Yes, I knew Jefferson owned slaves, but I didn't know Betsy Ross didn't sew the flag, and I didn't know there was a plague that wiped out an entire tribe leaving only Squanto to help the Pilgrims plant that corn, and I didn't know Pilgrim was a made-up term. As a matter of fact, there was a lot I didn't know ...
Worth picking up if you're remotely interested in US History, or in education, or have children.