Lies My Teacher Told Me

• Author : James W. Loewen
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 16 October 2007

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.

• Author : James W. Loewen
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 March 2023

Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important and successful American history books of our time. Now Rebecca Stefoff turns Loewen's beloved work into Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers. Beginning with pre-Columbian American history and then covering characters and events as diverse as Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen's lively, provocative telling of American history is a 'counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past' (

• Author : James Loewen
• Publisher : The New Press
• Release : 08 April 2008

Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions. What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls “an extremely convincing plea for truth in education.” In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen

• Author : James W. Loewen
• Publisher : The New Press
• Release : 23 April 2019

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction children's writer who adapted Howard Zinn's bestseller A

• Author : James W. Loewen
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 March 2023

Some myths don't die, and lies are still being told about Christopher Columbus: that he 'discovered' the Americas, that the land was sparsely populated by native people, that those people were primitive and that they submitted to Columbus's 'God-like' authority. Loewen disproves the myths about Columbus still enshrined in American textbooks with quotations from primary source material that sets the record straight. The poster and accompanying 48-page paperback book sum up the mistellings - and reveal the real story -

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 March 2023

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.

• Author : James W. Loewen
• Publisher : Teachers College Press
• Release : 07 September 2018

“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand

• Author : Clyde Wilson
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 January 2016

In this hard-hitting collection of 4 essays, Dr Wilson cuts straight to the chase: YOU WERE LIED TO! You were lied to about the nature, character, and cause of the American "Civil War," but that is just the start. The entire South-its people, culture, history, customs, both past and present-has been and continues to be lied about and demonized by the unholy trinity of the American establishment: Academia, Hollywood, and the Media. In the midst of the anti-South hysteria currently infecting

• Author : Everest Media,
• Publisher : Everest Media LLC
• Release : 20 March 2022

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Heroification is a process that makes people over into heroes. Through this process, our educational media turn flesh-and-blood individuals into pious, perfect creatures without conflicts, pain, credibility, or human interest. #2 Helen Keller was a radical socialist who joined the Socialist party in 1909. She had become a social radical even before she graduated from Radcliffe, and not because of any teachings available there. She became a Wobbly,

• Author : James W. Loewen
• Publisher : The New Press
• Release : 24 September 2019

A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called “jim-dandy pop history,” by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies

• Author : Milkyway Media
• Publisher : Milkyway Media
• Release : 28 April 2022

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Heroification is a process that makes people over into heroes. Through this process, our educational media turn fleshandblood individuals into pious, perfect creatures without conflicts, pain, credibility, or human interest. #2 Helen Keller was a radical socialist who joined the Socialist party in 1909. She had become a social radical even before she graduated from Radcliffe, and not because of any teachings available there. She became a Wobbly, a

• Author : Student World
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 28 May 2017

According to the author, he decided to have his present book "Lies My Teacher Told Me" published primarily because he wanted to have these twelve text books changed. Since the book obviously criticizes publisher, teachers, readers, and even government officials for failing in their responsibility of giving proper education to students, the book has remained controversial since its publication.

• Author : James W. Loewen
• Publisher : PM Press
• Release : 01 September 2020

Up a Creek, With a Paddle is an intimate and often humorous memoir by the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, who holds the distinction of being the best-selling living sociologist today. Rivers are good metaphors for life, and paddling for living. In this little book, Loewen skillfully makes these connections without sermonizing, resulting in nuggets of wisdom about how to live, how to act meaningfully, and perhaps how to die. Loewen also returns to his

• Author : James D. Kirylo
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 30 April 2020

Since its publication in 1968 Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed has maintained its relevance well into the 21st century. This book showcases the multitude of ways in which Freire's most celebrated work is being reinvented by contemporary, educators, activists, teachers, and researchers. The chapters cover topics such as: spirituality, teacher identity and education, critical race theory, post-truth, academic tenure, prison education, LGBTQ educators, critical pedagogy, posthumanism and indigenous education. There are also chapters which explore Freire's work in relation to

• Author : Sam Wineburg
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 17 September 2018

Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the internet always at our fingertips, what’s a teacher of history to do? Sam Wineburg has answers, beginning with this: