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Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Lies my teacher really told me

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:37:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author heidilr - I bought this book after continuing on for my Master's Degree in Social Studies, figuring that I may want to start getting some different viewpoints and a different variety of historical references. This book does, indeed, have a long list...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: What a load!

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:15:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author sfbcwizard - This book is entertaining and easy to read, however it also spoon feeds the same type of mis-information that it proposes to expose. It is slanted to the left, and reviewed only the 12 most vanilla textbooks that the author could find. His further...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Loewen Launches a Tirade against a New Kind of Antagonist, Your High School History Textbook

Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:09:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tripplec - Style and Contents Purpose Author Loewen mentions in the Introduction and again in the last chapter about the general apathy of high school students towards the subject of history. Citing the ability of history related secondary...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Helen Keller Was A Socialist and Christopher Columbus A Bad Guy

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:34:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Joubert - Revisionist history is an easy concept to grasp, but difficult to guard against. One need only watch Forest Gump or a friend who is a wiz at photo editing to quickly discover that even the most compelling physical evidence can be compromised...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Great Concept Spoiled by Author's Politics

Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:24:13 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shadyhawk35 - Be careful with this one. The concept of this book is right on target, but the author tends to confuse historical fact with ideology thus leading the reader astray. The book is generally well written and highlights many examples in which history...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Good, But Slanted Historical Criticism

Thu, 16 May 2002 01:46:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rooster3888 - Introduction

James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me is an unabashed assault on the pre-college history curriculum in the United States. Loewen examines 12 popular high school history textbooks and discusses how they present history:...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Should history bore the heck out of kids? Textbooks seem to think so.

Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:53:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author LilScamp - For the purposes of this review, I would like to offer a new title to Professor Loewen's book: as a high school social studies teacher, I would re-title the work Lies I Have No Intention of Telling My Students. My own education in Social...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Sex, Lies and American History

Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:25:10 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bloolight - James Loewen's book is a very interesting read, partly because of what he does right as well as what he does poorly. It is certainly provocative, even in its title. The use of the word "lies" in the title immediately sets up Loewen's position as...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Why History Isn't Boring

Fri, 6 Jul 2001 20:12:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author drose - Americans turn out by the millions to make historical shows like "Roots" and "The Civil War" among the highest rated on television, yet American high school students routinely say history is their least favorite subject. Why? According to author James...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Do American History Textbooks Teach Kids the Truth?

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:36:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Bryan_Carey - Have you ever wondered why American History textbooks seem to portray the American experience in such an optimistic way? Did you wonder why high school history seemed to make Americans seem like heros, even when they did wrong? Did you often find...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: American History Made Interesting

Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:01:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author difrentisgood - In trying to cram two and a quarter centuries into two high-school semesters, most American history textbooks (including my school's, I'm sad to report) resort to rote memorization of meaningless facts and trivia, all sugarcoated, Disney style...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Bad History My Textbook Taught Me

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:13:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author AdaDavis - The author says in his introduction to Lies My Teacher Told Me:

College teachers in most disciplines are happy when their students have significant exposure to the subject before college. Not teachers in history. History teachers in...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: A Cautionary Tale About Critical Thinking

Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:07:54 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jm1710 - The real value of James Loewen's books is that they force you to think critically about what you were taught in school. Perhaps you had teachers who were concerned about presenting a balanced, well researched view of history. For the rest of us, who...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Careful, Reasoned, Important

Sat, 17 Jun 2000 02:29:57 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jamesmcook - Summary: Far from a hysterical work by a mob of bozos, Lies My Teacher Told Me is a careful, reasoned and important work exposing error in the American history textbooks our high school students read.

Purpose of the...

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W Loewen 2001665749: Bozo On The Bus?

Wed, 10 May 2000 20:16:45 GMT
rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author lansky2000 - James Loewen is the king of revisionist historians banding together in hysterical mobs to tear down every last remnant of American myth and legend. Though his book is quite hysterical itself, Loewen goes one-up on himself by pointing to the increasing...