Lies my Teacher Told me : : Everything Your American History Textbook got Wrong
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"A Touchstone book."
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.
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Great Book submitted by Avliss on July 31, 2014, 8:01pm I'd recommend this book to anyone who has sat through a U.S. History class and wondered why they had to. It does a wonderful job of not only criticising the textbooks found in History classes, but also giving the reader new information (or at least correcting faulty information). It also really helped me view history not as a progression of absolute facts that are not to be questioned, but as a "wibbly-wobbly" subject with tons of controversy and lots of debate, which I find fascinating.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
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9780743296281
0743296281
SUBJECTS
Indians of North America in textbooks.
Thanksgiving Day in textbooks.
Racism in textbooks.
United States -- History -- Textbooks.
United States -- Historiography.