Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong cover
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
ISBN: 0743296281
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Apocryphon · 2023-09-03 · Original thread
Plenty of opportunity to [for a book](https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/07...) or [two](https://www.amazon.com/Lies-Across-America-Historic-Sites/dp...)
scrapcode · 2014-11-08 · Original thread
The word "many" leads me to believe that this is the author's opinion without substance, and even with evidence at best ad populum.

I recently read "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by J. Loewen [1], and it hits on just this, being the "heroification" of American leaders. I wouldn't doubt that this is what was the popular teaching in K-12 US.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/074...

chimeracoder · 2012-12-31 · Original thread
> No independence, no civil war, nada.

To be honest, most schools that do cover those do an even worse job than not teaching anything at all.

If you're interested in filling in the gaps on your own:

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Know-About-History-Anniversary/dp... http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/074...