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A review by neladon
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
"The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history."
Lies My Teacher Told Me is a startling look into how American history is taught or rather manipulated into an overbearing white eurocentric view and bleached of meaning and context. Loewen highlights how history textbooks present bland and disconnected series of events that ultimately do little to bridge how the past lays the foundation and shapes our future and how damaging this "education" is for students and for society at large.
This book blew me away and I think it is definitely one that everyone should read. Even nearly 30 years from its first publication it speaks volumes.
Lies My Teacher Told Me is a startling look into how American history is taught or rather manipulated into an overbearing white eurocentric view and bleached of meaning and context. Loewen highlights how history textbooks present bland and disconnected series of events that ultimately do little to bridge how the past lays the foundation and shapes our future and how damaging this "education" is for students and for society at large.
This book blew me away and I think it is definitely one that everyone should read. Even nearly 30 years from its first publication it speaks volumes.