Lies My Teacher Told Me

44 O’Reilly, “Racial Matters,” 43, 126, 144, and 355; David J. Garrow, The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr. (New York: Penguin, 19 ...

55 O’Reilly, “Racial Matters,” 336-37. Division administrators toned down the Jackson agents, reminding them to focus on the Tou ...

67 Rubenstein, The Cunning of History, 80-82; Clarence Lusane, Pipe Dream Blues (Boston: South End Press, 1991), 4, 116-22, and ...

CHAPTER 9: SEE NO EVIL: CHOOSING NOT TO LOOK AT THE WAR IN VIETNAM 1 George Swiers, quoted in William Appleman Williams et al., ...

8 Pageant also includes a confusing image of an American punching a Vietnamese, probably to keep him off a helicopter evacuating ...

harming South Vietnam.These people said that there was not much sense in destroying the country to save it from communism.” 19 J ...

York: New Press, 1999), 404-7. 27 Karnow, Vietnam, 365-76. 28 Gallup poll, November 1986; Roper poll, 8/1984. 29 See Dick Cluste ...

CHAPTER 10: DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE RECENT PAST 1 Quoted by Daniel Barenboim, “Germans, Jews, and Music,” ...

Wilson’s Diplomacy: An International Symposium (Cambridge: Schenkman, 1973), 9. 9 Eric Foner provides a capsule account of the c ...

unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=815&blz=1. 21 R. Scott Appleby, “History in the Fundamentalist Imaginatio ...

31 David E. Sanger, “Bush Aide Says US, Not UN, Will Rebuild Iraq,” New York Times, 4/5/2003; “Houston: We Have a Problem,” Corp ...

CHAPTER 11: PROGRESS IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCT 1 Senator Albert J. Beveridge, speech in the U.S. Senate, January 9, 1900, Co ...

real ending, so the chapter simply stops after this last detail. 6 Thomas Jefferson quoted in Robert Nisbet, History of the Idea ...

leaders ridiculed the American position. 14 Donella H. Meadows, “A Look at the Future,” in Robin Clarke, ed., Notes for the Futu ...

Weise, “90% of the Ocean’s Edible Species May Be Gone By 2048, Study Finds,” USA Today, 11/3/2006; Juliet Eilperin, “U.S. Attemp ...

1982), 13. She also criticized textbooks for bias in favor of the limits-to- growth side of the debate, which I cannot confirm; ...

47 The Americans includes a two-page section, “The Conservation Controversy,” buried on pages 1122-23 in the midst of a two-page ...

clean and healthy as before giving birth.” (History of the Indies [New York: Harper and Row, 1971], 64). 57 “Harper’s Index,” Ha ...

CHAPTER 12: WHY IS HISTORY TAUGHT LIKE THIS? 1 Herbert Butterfield, quoted in Stephen Vaughn, ed., The Vital Past (Athens: Unive ...

sixteen high school history textbooks in Looking at History (Washington, D.C.: People for the American Way, 1986). “Most of the ...