Friday, January 28, 2011
#295. Lies My Teacher Told Me
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (14 hours): James W. Loewen, a sociology professor and distinguished critic of history education, puts 12 popular textbooks under the microscope, and what he discovers will surprise you. In his opinion, every one of these texts fails to make its subject interesting or memorable. Worse still is the proliferation of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, and misinformation filling the pages.