Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Since its first publication in 1995, <i>Lies My Teacher Told Me</i> has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and has sold over a million copies in its various editions.<br><br>What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> calls &quot;an extremely convincing plea for truth in education.&quot; In <i>Lies My Teacher Told Me</i>, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should - and could - be taught to American students.<br><br>This new edition also features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author.<br>