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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:06 PM
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook...
Edited on Wed May-10-06 05:07 PM by Earth_First
Looking for a good book recommendation?
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KyuzoGator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:06 PM
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1. Uh, okay.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:07 PM
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2. They're going to have to release several new volumes
just to cover 2000-2008.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:12 PM
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3. "The People's History of the United States"
by Howard Zinn is a great book. I reference it quite a lot.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:14 PM
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6. Just bought that a few weeks ago. Haven't gotten to it yet, though.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:44 PM
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10. the best!
It is required reading for my boys when the are in High School.
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AllieB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:48 PM
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12. My sister turned me onto that book when I was in high school
she took a couple of courses with Howard Zinn at BU.
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:12 PM
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4. I LOVE that book!!!!!
:toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast:
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:12 PM
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5. I always told my students (undergrads & law ) every author has a bias.
And just because you read it in a textbook doesn't make it true. Always check out the background of the author.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:14 PM
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7. It's a good one.
I especially like the chapter on racism and anti-racism.
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simonm Donating Member (386 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:14 PM
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8. Interesting - Abraham Lincoln was racist
They never taught me that in school.


"But there are no villains, Loewen points out, in American history textbooks. No American has ever done anything wrong. Bad things just “happen.” In high school history there are slaves but no slaveholders, wars but no warmongers, crimes but no criminals. After all, it might confuse students to learn that Thomas Jefferson raped slave women, or that Abraham Lincoln often used the word “nigger.” Textbooks do a good job of covering up for American heroes, but in doing so they rob education of its greatest potential lesson: that in life, there are no easy answers."
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:47 PM
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11. As were many other abolitionists
It is rather ironic, isn't it?
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flakey_foont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-10-06 05:16 PM
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9. I have this book
great book! good companion to Howard Zinn's A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
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