Lies My Teacher Told Me

archetypes. Mircea Eliade has referred to “the inability of collective memory to retain historical events except insofar as it t ...

abandon his supply lines and attack Vicksburg from the south and east. Despite this roadside marker’s words, “the people” Grant’ ...

argumentation based on evidence. People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located ...

The teacher presents current statistics on high school seniors’ life chances, analyzed by race, sex, social class, and region—th ...

Whether dealing with bad textbooks, watching historical movies, or visiting museum exhibits, students—and the rest of us—must le ...

make transformed textbooks possible. In California, Texas, and other states, right-wing conservatives still influence textbook a ...

Hugh Trevor-Roper, the dean of British historians, has written, “A nation that has lost sight of its history, or is discouraged ...

NOTES INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION 1 Student, email via AOL.com, 1996. 2 Tomi Evans, email, 10/2005. 3 Via Erik Bailey, em ...

10 Please, before you quit, buy at least one book from the club! 11 Polite would be nice, though. INTRODUCTION: SOMETHING HAS GO ...

Institute, 2000); a study of 556 students at fifty-five elite colleges and universities commissioned by the American Council of ...

history texts during the last half century has resulted in history textbooks which are boring to students.” “Objections [to The ...

sellers and probably account for more than three-fourths of all American history textbook sales. ...

CHAPTER 1: HANDICAPPED BY HISTORY: THE PROCESS OF HERO-MAKING 1 James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers,” Saturday Review, 12/21/1963 ...

Response to War and Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968), Everett M. Dirksen, “Use of U.S. Armed Forces in Fore ...

51. 23 Ibid., 135-37. 24 Ibid., 138. 25 Lerone Bennett, Jr., Before the Mayflower (Baltimore: Penguin, 1966 [1962]), 292-94. Ben ...

FDR and the four gentlemen already on Mount Rushmore (Robert K. Murray and Tim Blessing, “The Presidential Performance Study,” J ...

CHAPTER 2: 1493: THE TRUE IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS 1 Kirkpatrick Sale, The Conquest of Paradise (New York: Alfred A. K ...

the aboriginal term, although confusion remains as to whether Haiti referred to the entire island or the highlands. See Las Casa ...

Tolstoy, “Paper Route,” Natural History, 6/1991, 6- 14; and Feats and Wisdom of the Ancients (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1990), ...

Sertima, They Came Before Columbus; Arthur E. Morgan, Nowhere Was Somewhere (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 19 ...