Lies My Teacher Told Me

CHAPTER 6: JOHN BROWN AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE INVISIBILITY OF ANTIRACISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS 1 Frances FitzGerald, Am ...

Raid on Harpers Ferry,” in T. M. McCarthy and J. Stauffer, eds., Prophets of Protest (New York: New Press, 2006), 173-75; Jean L ...

19 John Spencer Bassett, A Short History of the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1923), 502. 20 The treatment of Harpers Ferr ...

superior socially, but argues that blacks should have equal rights. 28 Richard Current, The Lincoln Nobody Knows (Westport, CT: ...

Clarence Thomas, “The Modern Civil Rights Movement” (Winston-Salem, NC: The Tocqueville Forum, 4/18/1988); Garry Wills, Lincoln ...

50 Hugh L. Keenleyside, Canada and the United States (New York: Knopf, 1952), 115; Aptheker, Essays in the History of the Americ ...

56 Escott, After Secession, 198; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 833-35; Beals, War Within a War, 147. 57 Stavis, John Brown: ...

does so with intelligence. 61 David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 345; ...

71 William C. Harris, “A Reconsideration of the Mississippi Scalawag,” Journal of Mississippi History 37, no. 1 (2/1970): 11-13. ...

81 On Brown and Ho Chi Minh, see Truman Nelson, The Truman Nelson Reader (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989), 285 ...

CHAPTER 7: THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY 1 Abraham Lincoln quoted in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954), ...

Random House, 1990); Robert Heilbroner, “Lifting the Silent Depression,” New York Review of Books, 10/24/1991, 6; and Sylvia Nas ...

(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), 116. 17 Edward Pessen, The Log Cabin Myth (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984 ...

Democracy’s Half-Told Story (New York: American Federation of Teachers, 1989), 84-85; “Income Disparity Since World War II,” op ...

Thernstrom, The Other Bostonians (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973), Chapters 5, 9. 38 See Alan Macrobert, “The Unfairn ...

CHAPTER 8: WATCHING BIG BROTHER: WHAT TEXTBOOKS TEACH ABOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1 Said regarding the writing of the history o ...

educational in nature. 12 Interviews with high-level managers of multinational corporations in Larry Adelman’s video, Controllin ...

(Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1988), Chapter 1. 21 Lewis H. Lapham, America’s Century Series Transcript (San Francisco: ...

found Oliver Stone’s film JFK persuasive, even though the conspiracy it concocts seems to include Vice President Johnson, the Pe ...

Ameringer, U.S. Foreign Intelligence, 250, 268. 32 Ronald Kessler, Inside the CIA (New York: Pocket Books, 1992), 41; see also G ...