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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong by James W. Loewen
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challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
This book is very important at a time when the Christian Right is actively trying to ban discussion and study of racial and queer issues in schools. I have a master’s in history, so I knew most of the content the author discussed. History was my favorite subject in high school, and I thought my teachers did a pretty good job. Even so, if not for my advanced study, I think I would struggle a lot more to understand trends and cause and effect.
I felt that the author wasn’t very good at discussing class issues, even though he clearly cared about them. It’s frustrating that he describes capitalism in such an uninformed way, defining it as people making products people want. Given the rest of the intense research in the book, that part felt weak.
I felt that the author wasn’t very good at discussing class issues, even though he clearly cared about them. It’s frustrating that he describes capitalism in such an uninformed way, defining it as people making products people want. Given the rest of the intense research in the book, that part felt weak.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Classism
Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Suicide, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
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