We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.
Don’t actually do this. Causing Change with Lies My Teacher Told Me Use Lies My Teacher Told Me to Promote Better History K-12 students have read the book and then asked so many questions of their teachers and pointed out so many mistakes in their textbooks that their teachers have been forced to get their …
Using Lies My Teacher Told Me In the College Classroom Lies My Teacher Told Me can be used in courses in education, sociology, history, English, philosophy, religion, and more. Prof. Stephen Berrey moderates “Teaching with Lies My Teacher Told Me,” a discussion list for professors who have used the book. We invite professors to tell what use …
Resources for Teaching History Creatively Here is a typical table from the US. Census for Indiana. Students may need a little help understanding it, but they can learn a lot from so doing. Help them find the overall population of “Negroes” in Indiana, compared to “Others.” What seems to be happening? Where are the African …
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Using Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened One high school U.S. history teacher in CA became well-known (and popular) because on the first day of class, he held up the huge textbook his district had chosen from the state-approved list and said, “Here is the textbook the State of CA mandates …
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James W. Loewen (1942-2021) We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began. For more on his life and work: James W. Loewen, Who Challenged How History Is Taught, Dies at 79, The New York Times HNN Honors James W. Loewen, 1942-2021, History News Network James W. …
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Q. What Did Students Say About Lies? Students took matters into their own hands after the first edition of Lies came out in 1995. I heard from some of them. A fourteen-year-old in South Dakota wrote to tell me what she thought of Lies My Teacher Told Me and another of my books, Lies Across America. “These are EXCELLENT books,” she …
Q. How Did People React to Lies After It Came Out? From the first day, readers made Lies My Teacher Told Me a success. As far as I can tell, it is the bestselling book by a living sociologist. A lot of people have written to tell me what they thought of it. A woman from Utah …
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Q. Does Lies Attack Teachers? Sadly, a few teachers rejected Lies My Teacher Told Me without reading it. The title made them think that I am a teacher basher. Yet the book never bashes teachers. I have great respect for teachers, from kindergarten through high school. Many work in crowded classrooms for eight hours a day—and on …
Q. What is Lies About? Lies My Teacher Told Me is about two things. One is American history. The other is the way young people are taught American history. I wrote Lies My Teacher Told Me because I believed that although Americans take great interest in their past, they were bored by the history courses they took in …
Introduction to Lies Across America In What Ways Were We Warped? When I was a boy on our annual summer vacation trips, the family car seemed to stop at every historic marker and monument. Maybe yours did too. Dad thought it was “good for us,” and I suppose in a way it was. Little did …