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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
greypierce's review
4.0
A great book. Sets history straight, sort of. A great book for students interested in historical memory.
boopointeshoes's review
The author greatly misrepresents indigenous people and beliefs. FYI: Wasichu means he who takes the best for himself or he who is greedy. It’s an insult. It was not the indigenous people looking up to the colonizers admiring their things.
giro_revuescope's review
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
Valuable for the most part but the author's credulosity towards a few fringe ideas (like the racist Olmec stone head skull shape 'theory') is very unfortunate. He would have done better with a few co-authors, since ironically for his complaints about textbooks the publishing house editors were clearly not equipped to fact check.
tessalaree's review against another edition
4.5
I had a great time with this book - I think textbooks, or maybe just my teachers, were a bit better in more recent years when I went through school. But the book still hit several lies I was told, or know that others were. I think it's so important to be critical about education and revise inaccuracies like this.