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There is an option on our website to order and pick up a book at the store. In lies my teacher told me, loewen criticizes modern american high school history textbooks for containing incorrect information about people and events such as christopher columbus, the lies and inaccuracies in the history books regarding the dealings between the europeans and the native americans, and their often deceptive and inaccurate teachings told about americas commerce in slavery. These historians are not speaking from knowledge or evidence, they are merely expressing the current fashion in historical interpretation. The book won the american book award in 1996 as well as several other awards. He is a regular contributor to the history channels history. Lies my teacher told me was recently republished, so i reached out to loewen to talk about what has changed. Thats a good hook, but unfortunately once the hook gets you the place it pulls you into is slightly different than what you might expect. Find the quotes you need in james loewens lies my teacher told me, sortable by theme, character, or chapter. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an american book award and the oliver cromwell cox award for distinguished antiracist scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the new york times. Lies you never told me hardcover lies you never told me hardcover. You are teaching the book instead of teaching history, using the book. Americans have lost touch with their history, and in lies my teacher told me professor james loewen shows why.
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