Lies My Teacher Told Me

photograph showed B-52s and bombs from below and gave no sense of any damage on the ground. Thus, there remained huge room for i ...

as an American photographer and television crew looked on. This photograph helped persuade many Americans that their side was no ...

ran in Life magazine, seared the massacre into the nation’s consciousness and still affects our culture.^11 Most Hollywood movie ...

includes twenty-one illustrations of the war, only one—the monk immolating himself—comes from my list of seven. Not one of twent ...

“Over one hundred and fifty honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in So ...

The only photograph of troops in Triumph of the American Nation shows them happily surrounding President Johnson when he visited ...

Muhammad Ali, then heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Ali refused induction into the military, for which his title was st ...

was an enemy. The Vietnamese woman selling soft drinks by the roadside might be a Viet Cong ally, counting government soldiers a ...

What was the war like before the United States entered it? How did we change it? How did the war change the United States? Why d ...

restore France’s colonial position in Indochina.”^24 Perhaps the seeds of America’s tragic involvement with Vietnam were sown at ...

books appear to raise moral issues but veer away. For example, Challenge of Freedom asks, “Why did the United States use so much ...

Tonkin Gulf incident, especially since the second attack on Maddox, upon which “our increased involvement in Vietnam” was predic ...

10. DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE RECENT PAST We see things not as they are but as we are. —ANAÏS NIN Patriotis ...

dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of t ...

took part, whether a sporting event or the Iraq War. We read partly in a spirit of criticism, assessing what the authors got wro ...

trial of Bill Clinton will likely offend half the community. An increasing proportion of Americans believe the Iraq War to be a ...

certainty with which they declaim on events in the zamani. As well, textbooks are tertiary sources, supposed to be based on seco ...

science who disproved the flat-earth notion and opened a new hemisphere to progress. This nineteenth-century Columbus appealed t ...

authors themselves lived through the events, they were exposed to a wealth of information from television, journalism, and conve ...

descriptions, though.) What about the “why” question, which today’s students do need to contemplate? In its teacher’s edition, H ...