false \ 1327043 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182778083m/1327043.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182778083m/1327043.jpg 296662 13 15653 1992 Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong total:4983|5:1492|4:2107|3:1094|2:230|1:60| 4983 19690 9319 699 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 5 18 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 07 07:25:41 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 30 12:32:36 -0800 2008
Almost everyone knew the world was round before 1492...more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 1 20 false Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 11:15:06 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 08:11:32 -0800 2008
“Lies My Teacher Told Me” is for anyone who has ever fallen asleep in history class."

Mr. Loewen’s premise is that history textbooks have been presented to portray a sla...more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 2 16 false Fri Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Aug 01 14:09:35 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 14:10:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 4 5 false Fri May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jan 31 06:42:11 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 04:47:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 3 5 false Wed Aug 22 18:24:38 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 06:36:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 2 4 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 09:36:35 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 09:52:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 4 2 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 19:55:53 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 22:52:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 1 7 false Tue Dec 16 03:00:15 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 03:01:42 -0800 2008 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 4 2 false Sat Apr 07 13:14:38 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 07 13:25:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 5 2 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jul 10 11:56:44 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 00:10:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 1 3 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Oct 11 18:20:16 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 18:34:31 -0700 2007
i think the author has a great overall point. especially since my mom is navajo and was raised as a baby in tuba city, az. but c'mon. does anyone out there still believe the shite printed during the cold war anyway?

some of the examples in the book...more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 2 3 false Sun May 11 19:07:44 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 12 22:14:43 -0800 2009 who writes the history books... but this book is a great example of what goes wrong when non-historians try to write history. Everything in this book is taken out of context - and is therefore at best skewed and at wors...more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 5 2 false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 13:41:03 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 08:36:25 -0700 2009
But more importantly, and far more int...more...]]> 414048 0743296281 9780743296281 267 63 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592390m/414048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414048.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 5 2 false Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 26 08:25:51 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 07 04:59:51 -0800 2008
1. That it is not weird that I hated history/social studies in high school, but now find it interesting.

2. That textbook "authors" can't be bothered to do their own research, so all the textbooks tell the same apocryphal stories (Ge...more...]]> 414048 0743296281 9780743296281 267 63 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592390m/414048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414048.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 3 1 false Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 18:08:05 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 18:17:37 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 4 1 false Mon Oct 01 09:56:18 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 09:56:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 13508 156584100X 9781565841000 141 24 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226127334m/13508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13508.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 2 1 false Wed Nov 07 12:13:16 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 02 12:09:01 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 07 12:13:05 -0800 2007
I've read (and enjoyed) some pretty dry non-fiction in my time, but I found this a bit o...more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 4 1 false Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 02 20:54:41 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 09:05:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 296662 0684818868 9780684818863 4462 586 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395m/296662.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_American_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 5 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 13:30:57 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 13:30:57 -0700 2007 more...]]> 13508 156584100X 9781565841000 141 24 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226127334m/13508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13508.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me_Everything_Your_History_Textbook_Got_Wrong 5 1 false Mon Oct 01 10:27:54 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 17:52:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1327043