The Question and Answer section for Lies My Teacher Told Me is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Loewen believed that spending so much energy on Columbus validates his place in American history rather than re-examining it.
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Thomas Jefferson: Let the philosophical observer commence a journey from the savages of the Rocky Mountains eastwards towards our seacoast. These he would observe in the earliest stage of association, living under no law but that of...
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The treatment of Brown, like the treatment of slavery and Reconstruction, has changed in American history textbooks. From 1890 to about 1970, John Brown was insane. Before 1890 he was perfectly sane, and after 1970 he has slowly...
