daacrown.blogg.se - James w loewen

America: Pathways to the Present ( Prentice Hall, 2005).

The Americans ( McDougal Littell, 2007).

The American Journey ( Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2000).

The American Pageant ( Houghton Mifflin, 2006).

In the second edition, Loewen added a newer edition of The American Pageant and five additional textbooks:

The United States: A History of the Republic ( Prentice Hall, 1991).

Triumph of the American Nation ( Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986).

Life and Liberty ( Scott, Foresman, 1984).

Land of Promise ( Scott, Foresman, 1983).

Discovering American History ( Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974).

The Challenge of Freedom ( Glencoe, 1990).

The American Way ( Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979).

American History ( Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982).

American Adventures ( Steck-Vaughn, 1987).

The American Adventure ( Allyn & Bacon, 1975).

The twelve textbooks Loewen examined for the first edition are: Loewen asserts that the muting of past clashes and tragedies makes history boring to students, especially groups excluded from the positive histories. Rather than highlighting both the positives and negatives of historical figures, Loewen claims textbooks cause students to perceive these figures through a single lens. He proposes that when American history textbooks elevate American historical figures to the status of heroes, they unintentionally give students the impression that these figures are super-humans who live in the irretrievable past. He further criticizes the texts for a tendency to avoid controversy and for their "bland" and simplistic style. 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 America's commerce in slavery. In addition to his critique of the dominant historical themes presented in high school textbooks, Loewen presents themes from history that he believes should be presented in high school textbooks. In the book, Loewen concludes that the textbook authors propagate false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of American history. Loewen in 1995 and critically examines twelve popular American high school history textbooks. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong was written by James W. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong