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Dec 10, 2019 thus, the main idea loewen reveals in his book lies my teacher told me. Winner of the 1996 american book award and the oliver cromwell cox award for distinguished antiracist scholarship americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thoughtprovoking book, professor james loewen shows why. What passes for identity in america is a series of myths about ones heroic ancestors. Lies my teacher told me, everything your american history textbook got wrong author. American history lies in wrong myths, education 1995. Lies my teacher told me, and how american history can be. Everything your american history textbook got wrong paperback. Its a fine spring day here, and we are sitting with jim loewen, the author of lies my teacher told me.
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