Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Name: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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Rating: 4.6 (4807 reviews)
Author: James W. Loewen

by James W. Loewen

Nonfiction Historical Fiction

4.6 (4,807)

4.6 stars from 4,807 reviews. Top 52% of Nonfiction books we track.

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Perfect for you if...

You're curious why American history feels incomplete or sanitised and want to understand what's missing from the official narrative.
You teach history or work with students and suspect your textbooks are glossing over uncomfortable truths.
You've noticed adults around you lack historical context for current events and want to fill those gaps in your own knowledge.

Maybe not for you if...

You prefer to believe established institutions got the big picture right and aren't interested in revisionist takes on familiar events.
You're looking for a narrative-driven history book with storytelling that pulls you along, rather than a critical examination of how history is taught.
You want a feel-good account of American progress and aren't prepared for uncomfortable reexaminations of national heroes.

About this book

A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author. Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has sold nearly two million copies and won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Loewen began with a survey of twelve leading American history textbooks and developed a critique of how they present history. The new preface addresses how inadequate high school history courses contribute to adult Americans' political views, and discusses how academic historians have moved away from the concept of truth in pursuit of objectivity. The book examines American history from pre-Columbian times through recent events, covering topics including Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War. Loewen presents an alternative account of American history and critiques existing textbooks' treatment of these subjects.

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Currently around #12K in the Kindle store — a steady mid-list seller. Climbing the charts — 37% improvement recently.

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Currently 4.6★ from 4,807 reviews

Gaining approximately 19 new reviews per month. Rating has dipped slightly from 4.7 to 4.6.

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