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James W. LoewenPublication Details
BookTouchstone trade pbk. edSimon & Schuster2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) E175.85 .L64 2007 DUE 11-30-08 New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. From the truth about Columbus’s historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "A Touchstone book."
- "Completely revised and updated"–Cover
- Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history
Contents
- Introduction: Something has gone very wrong
- Handicapped by history: the process of hero-making
- 1493: the true importance of Christopher Columbus
- Truth about the first Thanksgiving
- Red eyes
- "Gone with the wind": the invisibility of racism in American history textbooks - - John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: the invisibility of antiracism in American history textbooks
- Land of opportunity
- Watching big brother: what textbooks teach about the federal government
- See no evil: choosing not to look at the War in Vietnam
- Down the memory hole: the disappearance of the recent past
- Progress is our most important product
- Why is history taught like this?
- What is the result of teaching history like this?
- Afterword: The future lies ahead
- and what to do about them
ISBN
- 9780743296281
- 0743296281
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