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

4.0

I’ve never been a fan of history, but this book changed that. Here, history is presented as a series of cause and effect events with painful honesty. You know it’s honest, because there are mad reviewers crying bias over objective facts. Books like these are important and necessary. How is humankind meant to improve and grow if we can’t be honest? Even after reading about all the atrocities committed by “the greatest nation on earth” I’m left feeling hopeful. Hopeful because throughout history people have continued to rise up and fight for what they believe in. History is proof of the resilience of the human spirit and it goes to show what we could be capable of if we all got on the same page (a page that didn’t involve mass genocide and imperialism).