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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 1565843444 (1-56584-344-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong'Book summary:Little seems to delight historian James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, more than picking apart the cherished myths of American history. Few Americans study history after high school--instead, Loewen writes, they turn to novels and Oliver Stone movies to learn about the past. And they turn to the landscape, to roadside historical markers, guidebooks, museums, and tours of battlefields, childhood homes, and massacre sites. If you were to trust those sources, Loewen suggests, you would learn, erroneously, that the first airplane flight took place not at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, but at Pittsburg, Texas. "It must be true--an impressive-looking Texas state historical marker says so!" Loewen chortles.
In these entertaining pages, Loewen takes a region-by-region tour of the United States, pointing out historical oddments as he travels. For example, a massacre of white pioneers by Indians commemorated in Almo, Idaho, never took place, Loewen continues; neither did many other such events. Indeed, he insists, "throughout the entire West between 1842 and 1859, of more than 400,000 pioneers crossing the plains, fewer than 400, or less than .1 percent, were killed by American Indians." And if you were to visit Helen Keller's Georgia birthplace, over which a Confederate flag flies, you would get the impression that Keller had been an unreconstructed daughter of the Old South, whereas she was in fact an early supporter of the NAACP. And so on.
After finishing Loewen's alternately angry and bemused exposé, readers will likely never trust a roadside historical marker or tour guide again--which may prompt them to turn to history books to check things out for themselves. As well they should. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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- Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong: ISBN 074329629X (0-7432-9629-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books - Lies Across America : What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong: ISBN 0684870673 (0-684-87067-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong: ISBN 1565843444 (1-56584-344-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong: ISBN 074329629X (0-7432-9629-X)
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Lies My Teacher Told Meby James W. LoewenISBN 0613706471 (0-613-70647-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me'Book summary:The national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award, thoroughly updated for the first time since its initial publication to include textbooks written since 2000 and featuring a new chapter on what textbooks get wrong about 9/11 and Iraq.
Since its initial publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell one 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" beginning with the pre-Columbian period and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre.
In this revised and updated edition, James Loewen surveys six new high school history textbooks written since the first edition of Lies was published. In his inimitable style, he adds material to each chapter noting where the new books have gotten more accurate and where they are still fatally flawed. Loewen also writes at length about the way these textbooks treat the 2001 terrorist attacks and our "response" in Iraq. In fact, while researching this new edition Loewen made the front page of the New York Times in 2006 when he discovered that publishers were passing off as original virtually identical passages on important recent events in a number of history books. And in yet another example of the failure of American history textbooks, he found that "celebrity" historians whose names appear as authors in some cases have never read, let alone written, the texts attributed to them. [via]More editions of Lies My Teacher Told Me:
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Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 1565840089 (1-56584-008-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong'Book summary:The American Book Award winner's long out-of-print, myth-busting poster book, sure to be of interest to the million-plus buyers of Lies My Teacher Told Me.
In Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me offers a graphic corrective to the Columbus story told in so many American classrooms. First published over fifteen years ago and long out-of-print, the poster and accompanying paperback book sum up the mis-tellingsand reveal the real storyin a graphically appealing and accessible format.
In vintage Loewen fashion, the poster juxtaposes short quotes from a range of high school textbooks currently in use today, with excerpts from primary sources that clearly show how textbooks have "lied" by knowingly substituting crowd-pleasing myths for grim and gruesome historical evidence.
In fact, these textbooks intentionally omitted every important detail that we do know about Columbus's fateful voyage to the Americas. Among countless other facts, Loewen demonstrates that Columbus and his men were far from the first to set foot in the "New World," and that the peoples he encountered there did not submit to the "god-like" authority of him and his crewmen, but rather to the deadly forms of smallpox and bubonic plague they brought with them from Europe.
In concise, deeply engaging prose, Loewen expands on these little-discussed facts, putting them in the larger context of a discussion of "truth" and revisionist history. Originally published as The Truth About Columbus. [via]More editions of Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong:
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 1565849469 (1-56584-946-9)
Hardcover, New Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'Book summary:A tenth anniversary commemorative hardcover edition of James w. Loewen's classic retelling of American history.
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 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 Mai 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.
This 10th anniversary edition features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author. [via]
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- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong: ISBN 1595583262 (1-59558-326-2)
Hardcover, New Pr - Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong: ISBN 156584100X (1-56584-100-X)
Hardcover, New Pr - Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong: ISBN 0743296281 (0-7432-9628-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books - Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong: ISBN 0684818868 (0-684-81886-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong: ISBN 1565849469 (1-56584-946-9)
Hardcover, New Press, The
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong: ISBN 1595583262 (1-59558-326-2)
The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and Whiteby James W. LoewenISBN 0881333123 (0-88133-312-3)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Mississippi:Conflict & Change: Conflict & Changeby James W. Loewen , Charles SallisISBN 0394709292 (0-394-70929-2)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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Mississippi: Conflict and Changeby James W. Loewen , Charles SallisISBN 0394710088 (0-394-71008-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Social Science in the Courtroom: Statistical Techniques and Research Methods for Winning Class-Action Suitsby James W. LoewenISBN 0669043109 (0-669-04310-9)
Hardcover, Lexington Books
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racismby James W. LoewenISBN 156584887X (1-56584-887-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racism'Book summary:No blacks allowed, especially after dark. This was the unwritten rule in a "sundown" town. In his trademark revelatory style, bestselling author James W. Loewen explores one of America's best-kept secrets as he unearths the making of sundown towns and discloses the fact that many white neighborhoods and suburbs are the result of years of racism and segregation. Anna, Illinois; Darien, Connecticut; and Cedar Key, Florida, are just a few examples of the thousands of all-white towns established between 1890 and 1968, many of which still exist today. White residents of these towns used any means possible -- including the law, harassment, race riots, and even murder -- to keep African Americans and other minority groups out.
Powerful and unprecedented, Sundown Towns tells the story of how these towns came into existence, what maintains them, and what to do about them. It also deepens our understanding of the role racism has played and continues to play in our society.
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We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American Historyby James W. Loewen , Clint WillisISBN 1560255056 (1-56025-505-6)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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