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English
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Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important--and successful--history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times in the summer of 2006. For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in his American Book Award-winning and bestselling Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation, Lies Across America looks at more than one hundred sites where history is told on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, museums, historic houses, forts, and ships. Loewen uses his investigation of these public versions of history, often literally...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Young readers' edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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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