Lies My Teacher Told Me

understand this new outbreak of “chaos,” however, because not one recent book even mentions Congo/Zaire. Nor does any textbook, ...

Why leave our involvement open to question? Historians know that the CIA had earlier joined with ITT to try to defeat Allende in ...

shortsighted policy.^32 “Was it desirable to trade Mossadegh for the Ayatollah Khomeini?” asks the historian Charles Ameringer a ...

The answer to that question is no.” Among the dead three days later were four American pilots. When asked about Chile in his Sen ...

The sole piece of criminal government activity that most textbooks treat is the series of related scandals called Watergate. In ...

1816, “but our country, right or wrong!” Educators and textbook authors seem to want to inculcate the next generation into blind ...

displayed this bitter rejoinder: THERE’S A STREET IN ITTA BENA CALLED FREEDOM. THERE’S A TOWN IN MISSISSIPPI CALLED LIBERTY. THE ...

With the approval of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, he tapped the telephones of King’s associates, bugged King’s hotel room ...

1964 Democratic national convention in Atlantic City, the FBI tapped the phones of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and ...

taught, Tougaloo College, was a special target: at one point agents in Jackson even proposed to “neutralize” the entire college, ...

be a communist. Everyone in eastern Mississippi knew for weeks who had committed the murder and that the Neshoba County deputy s ...

The latest Pageant actually claims that the Kennedys—Jack and Robert— prodded SNCC and other civil rights groups to register bla ...

government courses found that about the only way the teachers suggested that individuals could influence local or national gover ...

wise and good government implies that the correct role for us citizens is to follow its leadership. Without pushing the point to ...

that the government determines everything anyway, so why bother, especially if its actions are usually so benign. Thus, our Amer ...

9. SEE NO EVIL CHOOSING NOT TO LOOK AT THE WAR IN VIETNAM If we do not speak of it, others will surely rewrite the script. Each ...

He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS^4 AS WE COLLEGE PROFESSORS get older, ...

coverage—nine pages—to the War of 1812 and the Vietnam War. One might argue, I suppose, that the War of 1812 was so much more im ...

Americans evacuating from a Saigon rooftop by helicopter while desperate Vietnamese try to climb aboard. Quang Duc, the first ...

This little girl, Kim Phuc, ran screaming down Highway 1, fleeing from an accidental napalm attack on her village by South Vietn ...