Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history...
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Author: James W. Loewen
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong by Loewen, James W.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

BD$30.07

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

BD$30.07
Author: James W. Loewen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity

Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important--and successful--history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction children's writer who adapted Howard Zinn's bestseller A People's History of the United States for young readers, makes Loewen's beloved work available to younger students.

Essential reading in our age of fake news and slippery, sloppy history, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition cuts through the mindless optimism and outright lies found in most textbooks that are often not even really written by their authors. Loewen is, as historian Carol Kammen has said, the history teacher we all should have had. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and then covering characters and events as diverse as the first Thanksgiving, Helen Keller, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen's lively, provocative telling of American history is a counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past (The Nation).

This streamlined young readers' edition is rich in vivid details and quotations from primary sources that poke holes in the textbook versions of history and help students develop a deeper understanding of our world. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition brings this classic text to a new generation of readers (and their parents and teachers) who will welcome and value its honesty, its humor, and its integrity.



Author: James W. Loewen
Publisher: New Press
Published: 04/23/2019
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781620974698
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019
School Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 117
Booklist 05/01/2019 pg. 76

About the Author
James W. Loewen is the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, Sundown Towns, and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. He has won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Loewen is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, DC.

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