Comments | shadowsider: Highly Recomended.

shadowsider

Highly Recomended.

Dec 01, 2004 00:36

I am currently reading a book titled "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" by James W. Loewen ( Read more... )

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rialian November 30 2004, 21:51:23 UTC

===That is one I need to pick up.

===If you like that, might I suggest looking up Zinn?

shadowsider December 1 2004, 00:29:14 UTC

He's quoted on the cover, actually.. "Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book." - Howard Zinn.

irishblessing November 30 2004, 21:52:56 UTC

Then write to your schools and tell them this is how history should be taught.

Uhhuh. The state SC's schools are in? Suuuuure. I'll look for it, darlin'. It sounds interesting. But don't expect US schools to become *gasp* liberalish!

karaz June 9 2005, 18:45:36 UTC

I read this about a year or two ago, you're - right fantastic.

shadowsider June 25 2005, 05:58:04 UTC

As a Navajo, the idea that "American History" started at the earliest with Columbus - some books start with Jamestown - just left me with the worst of bad tastes in my mouth..

karaz June 27 2005, 01:33:36 UTC

You know, it's odd. By the time you get to grade 10 or so, you realize that the history books are warped and gloss over anything that would be a black mark on 'American History.' It's not until you get a great (foreign) professor in college that you find out just how much editing has been done. I read this book (and several others) on his rec. Very cool guy.