Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national
bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its
conflict, drama, and complexity
Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important--and
successful--history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million
copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox
Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff,
the acclaimed nonfiction children's writer who adapted Howard Zinn's
bestseller A People's History of the United States for young readers,
makes Loewen's beloved work available to younger students.
Essential reading in our age of fake news and slippery, sloppy history,
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition cuts through the
mindless optimism and outright lies found in most textbooks that are
often not even really written by their authors. Loewen is, as historian
Carol Kammen has said, the history teacher we all should have had.
Beginning with pre-Columbian history and then covering characters and
events as diverse as the first Thanksgiving, Helen Keller, the My Lai
massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen's lively, provocative telling
of American history is a counter-textbook that retells the story of the
American past (The Nation).
This streamlined young readers' edition is rich in vivid details and
quotations from primary sources that poke holes in the textbook versions
of history and help students develop a deeper understanding of our
world. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition brings this
classic text to a new generation of readers (and their parents and
teachers) who will welcome and value its honesty, its humor, and its
integrity.
