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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
I hope my children are fortunate to either read a book like this or have a teacher who has and who takes it seriously. I don’t agree with the author on everything. I rather think he’d be rather disappointed with me if I did. But I think he’s encouraging all of us to start asking the right sorts of questions that make history important to know and engage with.
The chapter on 9/11 and Iraq/Afghanistan provoked a particularly visceral reaction for me because it is the living past for me. I was a freshman in college when 9/11 occurred and the events that followed are when I first learned that America is not the “international good guy” I was taught. I might have known something about this if I had been taught about Vietnam but I only ever touched it briefly in an English class. Not one history class in the late 90’s got past the end of WWII. This book would’ve been an invaluable resource for me then and it was still worth the time I spent on it now.
The chapter on 9/11 and Iraq/Afghanistan provoked a particularly visceral reaction for me because it is the living past for me. I was a freshman in college when 9/11 occurred and the events that followed are when I first learned that America is not the “international good guy” I was taught. I might have known something about this if I had been taught about Vietnam but I only ever touched it briefly in an English class. Not one history class in the late 90’s got past the end of WWII. This book would’ve been an invaluable resource for me then and it was still worth the time I spent on it now.