This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes
shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students.
Lies My Teacher Told Me won the American Book Award and the Oliver
Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti- Racist Scholarship. Americans
have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book,
Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high
school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a
decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an
embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer
misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the
ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful
chapters, Loewen reveals that:
1) The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in
Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
2) Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as
slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth
3) Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white
supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the
Covenant of the League of Nations
4) The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts
From the truth about Columbus’s historic voyages to an honest evaluation
of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it
the vitality and relevance it truly possesses.
Unabridged.
Read by Nathaniel Parker.
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