Pros: Good, critical analysis of the fallicies found in American History textbooks. Cons: Mostly a Negative Book
Have you ever wondered why American History textbooks seem to portray the American experience in such an optimistic way? Did you wonder why high school history seemed to make Americans seem like heros, even when they did wrong? Did you often find...
Pros: Well written analysis of the errors and omissions in American school texts... Cons: ...that dwells a bit too much on sociology, but is a worthy read.
Revisionist history is an easy concept to grasp, but difficult to guard against. One need only watch Forest Gump or a friend who is a wiz at photo editing to quickly discover that even the most compelling physical evidence can be compromised. ...
Pros: A page-turner. Interesting ideas about the role of textbooks in history education. Cons: Thin use of primary sources. Single-sentence quotations presented as evidence.
For the purposes of this review, I would like to offer a new title to Professor Loewen's book: as a high school social studies teacher, I would re-title the work Lies I Have No Intention of Telling My Students. My own education in Social...
Pros: Very educational, easy to read, well researched Cons: Politically slanted, contradictory at times, preachy
Introduction
James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me is an unabashed assault on the pre-college history curriculum in the United States. Loewen examines 12 popular high school history textbooks and discusses how they present history:...
Pros: Interesting, entertaining, and well written. Cons: A little outdated as some things have changed since 1995.
The author says in his introduction to Lies My Teacher Told Me:
College teachers in most disciplines are happy when their students have significant exposure to the subject before college. Not teachers in history. History teachers in...
Pros: Interesting look at American History for those who like their truthfulness objective Cons: Not for the willfully ignorant
In trying to cram two and a quarter centuries into two high-school semesters, most American history textbooks (including my school's, I'm sad to report) resort to rote memorization of meaningless facts and trivia, all sugarcoated, Disney style....
Pros: Exposes major misonceptions/myths about history perpetuated in textbooks. Cons: Preachy to the point of ludicrous. Distracting political slant.
James Loewen's book is a very interesting read, partly because of what he does right as well as what he does poorly. It is certainly provocative, even in its title. The use of the word "lies" in the title immediately sets up Loewen's position as...
Pros: An Important Subject: Includes many examples of problems with history textbooks Cons: Many examples of political bias and misinformation detract heavily from the author's credibility.
Be careful with this one. The concept of this book is right on target, but the author tends to confuse historical fact with ideology thus leading the reader astray. The book is generally well written and highlights many examples in which history...
Pros: Provides a strong plea for an alternate, objective look at American history. Dispels myths Cons: Analectic method becomes tiresome near the end, note accessibility
Style and Contents Purpose Author Loewen mentions in the Introduction and again in the last chapter about the general apathy of high school students towards the subject of history. Citing the ability of history related secondary ...
Pros: a careful, well-reasoned analysis of inaccuracy in history textbooks Cons: one book to be read in the context of other books
Summary: Far from a hysterical work by a mob of bozos, Lies My Teacher Told Me is a careful, reasoned and important work exposing error in the American history textbooks our high school students read.
Pros: Emergency substitute for catbox liner... Cons: Hope Morris hasn't learned to read...
James Loewen is the king of revisionist historians banding together in hysterical mobs to tear down every last remnant of American myth and legend. Though his book is quite hysterical itself, Loewen goes one-up on himself by pointing to the increasing...
Pros: Easy to read, filled with a lot of great information Cons: too short!
I bought this book after continuing on for my Master's Degree in Social Studies, figuring that I may want to start getting some different viewpoints and a different variety of historical references. This book does, indeed, have a long list ...
Pros: Incredibly enlightening book. Cons: Tries to do too many things.
Americans turn out by the millions to make historical shows like "Roots" and "The Civil War" among the highest rated on television, yet American high school students routinely say history is their least favorite subject. Why? According to author James...
Pros: Well written; easy to read Cons: Preachy at points
The real value of James Loewen's books is that they force you to think critically about what you were taught in school. Perhaps you had teachers who were concerned about presenting a balanced, well researched view of history. For the rest of us, who...
Everyone knows, or should know that history is written by the winners, or benifactors, and I have only read two books in my life that have contridicted this way of teaching history. The first is "A Peoples History of the United States" and the...
Other - , Lies My Teacher Told Me This national best-seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. Lies My Te...
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