Lies My Teacher Told Me about Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong

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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 tellings and reveal the real story in 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, 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. Download Lies My Teacher Told Me about Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong Author James W. Loewen – kino-fada.fr I like history There was a good deal of facts in the book that were eye opening I don t dispute those facts In fact I looked up in Wikipedia and verified a great many of them Which leads me to my disagreement with the author There was definitely a political slant to the book Ok I like to hear both sides of the story In fact, that was one of his points, that history is a debatethat it is set of facts Then he throws a lot, and I mean a lot of facts Sort of defeating his own I like history There was a good deal of facts in the book that were eye opening I don t dispute those facts In fact I look...I liked the premise of the book but hated the author s tone It s eye opening and embarrassing I m intrigued enough to read upon the topic.The whole time I read this book, I could only think of the recent February 2015 movement by Oklahoma lawmakers that banned certain AP history courses because they didn t teach American exceptionalism If there were ever a case of needing a book in American classrooms, this is it and Oklahoma just proved it I feel this book should most certainly be required for ALL history teachers and probably for all Oklahoma lawmakers The fact that, according to the book, so many teachers of history Th...While a good portion of it becoming common knowledge, this book does an excellent job at surveying popular American History textbooks and compares the prevalence of certain topics which the author considers under appreciated or mis taught in schools While I didn t agree with the author in the imp...The books we learned history from were watered down, and in many cases, plain inaccurate It s like many times the history in the books is a history as the author wishes it was.All that said, I enjoyed this book, as it made me think about finding outabout a lot of histori...Eye opening basically explains digging deeper and not believing everything you read are told.Good book if you get past all of the author s ranting First 9 chapters were pretty good Once he got into Textbook publishing and what not it felt like a 100 page rant It was tough to power through tho...A mind blowing must read in your lifetime It will definitely make you uneasy But you need itGood book Worth the read A little heavy on political agenda I liked 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus much better.Filled with real history and extremely informative It is a bit over kill , but very important.

Lies My Teacher Told Me about Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong
  • English
  • 17 September 2019
  • Paperback
  • 48 pages
  • 1565840089
  • James W. Loewen
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me about Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong