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Q. Have History Textbooks Gotten Any Better Since the Latest Version of Lies My Teacher Told Me? I don’t know. I doubt it. But I haven’t read new textbooks since I wrote the 2007 edition of Lies. For years I’ve been saying that I would never review a third batch. “Nothing could get me to read another …
Readers’ and Critics’ Capsule Responses toLies My Teacher Told Me Lies My Teacher Told Me is an extremely convincing plea for truth in education.” — San Francisco Chronicle “I loved your book and plan to strongly recommend it to all of my colleagues.” — Thomas Corwin, 30-year veteran HS history teacher “This book takes up where …
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Preface to Lies My Teacher Told Me In two ways the web has made things worse. First, it has jeopardized the finances of newspapers. When retailers found they could reach potential customers more cheaply online, many decreased advertising in newspapers. The country’s largest online store, Amazon, rarely advertises in print. At the same time, subscription …
Introduction to Lies My Teacher Told Me “It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.” — Felix Okoye “Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.” — James Loewen “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, …
Book Description 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 …
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Best-Selling Book by a Living (as of 2020) Sociologist! High school students hate history. When they list their favorite subjects, history always comes in last. They consider it the most irrelevant of 21 school subjects; bo-o-o-oring is the adjective most often applied. James Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian Institute surveying twelve leading high …
Teaching with Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching what Really Happened This is a moderated discussion list for teachers and professors who have used any of these books in class. Many teachers have shared with Loewen how they assign students chapters or shorter passages from LMTTM and ask them to then assess their textbooks …
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Works Inspired or Influenced by Lies My Teacher Told Me Lies My Teacher Told Me sparked at least one pop song. Let us know if you know of other songs, novels, poems, art, etc., that seem to have been influenced in part by Lies My Teacher Told Me. Lies My Teacher Told Me inspired a …
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Media Stories, Reviews, and Comments aboutLies My Teacher Told Me Surely the most helpful quotation about Lies My Teacher Told Me is this one: “Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book.” — Howard Zinn, author, A People’s History of the United States. Shortly after Lies My Teacher Told Me first …