Ebook {Epub PDF} Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen

James W. Loewen is the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America. He is a regular contributor to the History Channel's History magazine and is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont/5().  · Lies Across America: What American Historic Sites Get Wrong. Lies Across America.: James W. Loewen. Simon and Schuster, - Education - /5(10). In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Aug. 20, James W. Loewen, a sociologist and civil rights champion who took high school teachers and textbook publishers to task for distorting American history, particularly the struggle of. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including.

Lies Across America -What Our Historical Sites Get Wrong, by James W. Loewen, published in , is the sequel to Lies My Teacher Told Me. In it, Loewen takes up from the historical distortions he revealed in the first book and shows how these distortions have manifested themselves in the “landscape” in the form of monuments and markers placed at historic sites. In Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen describes how people in the United States get a distorted understanding of their past in their high school years. Unfortunately, when they leave school, their miseducation continues. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong shows how our shrines of public history suffer from the same kinds of omissions, distortions, and outright falsehoods that Lies My Teacher Told. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships.