![]() In addition to criticism, he also provides remedies to make textbooks and teaching methods more useful and appealing to students. He points out that this homogenization alienates minorities and others by making history extremely uninteresting. ![]() It focuses on how these books omit certain events and gloss over others to mythologize American history. This should be standard reading for all adults and a study guide for high schoolers. ![]() ![]() ![]() T23:04:55-05:00 Professor James Loewen described how his recent book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, published by The New Press, resulted from two years of research at the Smithsonian Institution studying twelve popular high school history textbooks. Outstanding view into the whitewashing of our history. ![]()
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