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Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong James W. Loewen
Publisher: New Press, The

In class in a couple of weeks we're going to read Las Casas's book (The Destruction of the Indies), so I enjoyed this Oatmeal expose. Oct 14, 2009 - October 12, 2009 was Columbus Day, and it's kind of ironic for me because just the other day, maybe about a week ago, my 10 year old daughter came up to me and told me the most incredible story. Sep 7, 2010 - In his new book The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” About the “Lost Cause,” Loewen sets the historical record straight about a time in American history that is often invoked by conservatives today. In other words, the church was bent on teaching flat earth even though Christopher Columbus had demonstrated that the earth was a sphere. I used both The People's History by Zinn and Lies My Teacher Told Me with my juniors. I found the book seminal, eye-opening, life-changing. Oct 10, 2013 - It says something about our society that the comfortable myth of Christopher Columbus still holds greater sway over the American imagination than the troubling truth of Bartolomé de las Casas. Me quoting a source: “Here is my assessment of Christopher Columbus. Nearly 150 years after GUEST: James Loewen, sociologist and best-selling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong and Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. Jun 15, 2012 - Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Feb 19, 2012 - Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got WrongJames W. May 19, 2014 - In January of 2013, Gene Rosen, a man who had sheltered six children during the massacre, began receiving calls from people he didn't know accusing him of lying about what had happened that day…and of his being a . The sources of my evidence are as good as they get – primary journal entries from Columbus himself and from some of the crewman and priests who sailed with him. She told me I thought to myself, my goodness, for a 10 year old, you're waxing eloquent on Christopher Columbus. Note: The following are notes from the above book.