Lies My Teacher Told Me

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This paper reviews, discusses and analyzes the James Loewen's book, 'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'. According to the paper, this book is one author's attempt to get to the bottom of American history. The paper goes on to say that Loewen offers great insight to not only the faults in American history education but to the truths about American history. The paper reports from the personal perspective of the author.

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"At first glance, I thought this book would be awful to read. I thought that I do not need some Professor who knows everything to tell me I am uneducated in American history. But after reading this work, I came to realize the book is much more than that. It is a critique on so many factors in our society, which only one is the student's education. But it does not critique the American history student, and I felt this refreshing. If a student is not original in his or her thought, it was because he or she was not led towards originality. In truth, these problems are nobodies fault in particular and Loewen does not point fingers at me saying I am not a good history student or teacher. Rather he demonstrates the need and the process to be original in thought and interpretation and study of history and this resonated very strongly with me. "Some adults simply do not trust children to think," Loewen writes which means that it is not the students fault if he or she does not think originally about history (Loewen). Therefore it is in a student's power to correct the situation and within the adults power to help the student of American history to make progress. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Homepage of James Loewen. 25 Feb. 2007. <http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/ >.
• Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1995.

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