Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

by James W. Loewen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162097469X
• ISBN13: 9781620974698
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended

This book, though it has a title that might offend some people, is a very important addition to any American's bookshelf. We need to know the ways our curriculum has omitted and reconstructed our history for the comfort of some, and specific ways that heroification, whether that's of founding fathers, presidents, or icons like Helen Keller (who was so much more than we were taught), are harmful. I can't recommend this higher.