upcarta
  • Sign In
  • Sign Up
  • Explore
  • Search

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

  • Book
  • Aug 4, 1995
  • #History
James W. Loewen
@JamesWLoewen
(Author)
www.goodreads.com
Paperback
4.5/5 573 ratings
Paperback Audiobook Mass market paperback
See on Goodreads
3.96/5 58.4k ratings
3 Recommenders
3 Mentions
1 Ask
1 Collection
Unabridged, 9 audiocassettes, 14 hours 45 minutes _______________ This national best-seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taug... Show More

Unabridged, 9 audiocassettes, 14 hours 45 minutes
_______________
This national best-seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. Lies My Teacher Told Me won the American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship.

James W. Loewen, a sociology professor and distinguished critic of history education, puts 12 popular textbooks under the microscope-and what he discovers will surprise you. In his opinion, every one of these texts fails to make its subject interesting or memorable. Worse still is the proliferation of blind patriotism, mindless optimism and misinformation filling the pages.

From the truth about Christopher Columbus to the harsh reality of the Vietnam War, Loewen picks apart the lies we've been told. This audiobook, narrated by Brian Keeler (The Hurricane, "All My Children") will forever change your view of the past.

(From Goodreads)

Show Less

Number of Pages: 383

ISBN: 0684818868

ISBN-13: 9780684818863

Recommend
Post
Save
Complete
Collect
Mentions
See All
Alex Wieckowski @AlexAndBooks_ · Feb 21, 2022
  • Curated in 20 books that will help you understand the world and how we got here
Nuage Laboratoire @NuageLaboratoire · May 15, 2023
  • Post
text
Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1 · May 11, 2023
  • Answered to You have to suggest one book on American history to a friend. Which do you choose?
  • From Twitter
Absolutely fantastic. An awesome historian breaks down everything that was left out, wrong or broken with American high school history. You'll realize you don't know much about American history after reading it.
Collections
See All
  • Alex Wieckowski
    • Collection
    20 books that will help you understand the world and how we got here
    20 curations
Asks
See All
  • Anthony Pompliano
    • Ask
    You have to suggest one book on American history to a friend. Which do you choose?
    15 answers
  • upcarta ©2025
  • Home
  • About
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • @upcarta