James W. Loewen

eBook, ePUB

Lies My Teacher Told Me (eBook, ePUB)

Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Beschreibung

"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."
-Howard Zinn

A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author

Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important-and successful-history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times.

For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems, and calls out academic historians for abandoning the concept of truth in a misguided effort to be "objective."

What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should-and could-be taught to American students.

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Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

James W. Loewen has won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. He is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, DC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781620974551
• Artikelnr.: 56799806

Rezensionen

Praise for Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation:

"Lies My Teacher Told Me is a particularly essential book in this time of Trump's reascendancy, when education art historical pedagogy is threatened by the far right and Project 2025."
-Hyperallergic

"In this adaptation, Powell uses sophisticated graphic storytelling to bring the words to life. . . . The result is a fascinating retelling of American history that takes a critical look at the standard narratives, both specific and general, and shows how the misperception of the past affects the present. . . . It's both fascinating and empowering."
-School Library Journal

"Powell's visual depth beautifully adds visceral

layers to Loewen's efforts to undercut scholastic elisions. . . . In cleverly dissecting and debunking what was taught for decades, Loewen's stories collectively serve as an illuminating textbook in their own right."
-The Washington Post

"There are something like 1500 individual panels in Lies My Teacher Told Me . . . [Powell] does a marvelous job of synthesizing Loewen's concepts into a new work that delves into the many ways that history textbooks have long failed our students."
-Comic Book Resources

"The most important graphic novel of 2024."
-Comics Are Dope

"Powell's characteristically fluid art lends new depth. . . . Long a favorite of radical educators, Loewen's original text receives the vital and accessible adaptation it deserves."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"This new iteration cleverly demonstrates Loewen's key concepts while vividly bringing the content to life."
-Booklist

James Loewen's classic Lies My Teacher Told Me is an essential title in the pantheon of books that challenge commonly held racist historical assumptions about the past. This new graphic adaption will inspire even more readers, young and old, to interrogate these false narratives. Nate Powell's wonderful illustrations capture Loewen's sly humor and reverence for truth-telling and will entertain even as they inspire and teach."
-Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America

"This updated version of Lies My Teacher Told Me NEEDS to be in every history classroom and incorporated into teacher education programs and coursework. Nate Powell's captivating artwork adds depth and emotion that will help readers connect to our true, shared history in ways that prose alone cannot."
-Tim Smyth, social studies teacher and author of the Eisner-nominated Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels

"Thank God for Nate Powell-his beautiful illustrations kept me rapt all through this groundbreaking work of history. No matter what you think you know about the story of America, there's something in this book that will blow your mind. Dive in!"
-Adam Conover, comedian and host of Adam Ruins Everything and Factually with Adam Conover

"From fables of noble presidents and benevolent governments to falsehoods about classless and colorblind societies Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation reveals the deception of so many American history textbooks and provokes kids to ask, 'Why are they hiding the truth?'"
-Jesse Hagopian, teacher and co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives

"Countless people have told me how their lives were changed by reading the original Lies My Teacher Told Me-including many inspired to become U.S. history teachers themselves. With Nate Powell's skillful adaptation and creative illustrations, readers can see detailed examples of how, to quote Loewen, 'history textbooks are anti-citizenship manuals, handbooks for acquiescence.' This book will get young people asking the right questions and looking beyond textbooks for answers."
-Deborah Menkart, executive director of Teaching for Change and co-director of the Zinn Education Project

"Nate Powell's emotive graphics add a vital new dimension to James Loewen's razor-sharp critique of our nation's textbooks. This collaboration will reach those with the most to gain: students still spoon-fed with constrained narratives masquerading as history."
-Ray Raphael, author of A People's History of the American Revolution and Founding Myths

"James Loewen's history of our country is everything most textbooks are not: critical, idea-rich, anti-racist, class-conscious-and funny. Loewen's irreverent storytelling comes to life in Nate Powell's action-packed adaptation of Loewen's classic Lies My Teacher Told Me. This volume is especially welcome at a moment when truthful history is under attack."
-Bill Bigelow, curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools and co-director of Zinn Education Project