Lies My Teacher Told Me, the Glossary
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James W. Loewen that critically examines twelve popular American high school history textbooks.[1]
Table of Contents
30 relations: A People's History of the United States, African-American history, Allyn & Bacon, Alternative facts, American Book Awards, American Educational Studies Association, Christopher Columbus, Commemorative plaque, D. C. Heath and Company, Eurocentrism, Harcourt (publisher), Hero, Historiography, History of the United States, Holt McDougal, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Howard Zinn, James W. Loewen, Jere T. Humphreys, Lies Across America, List of common misconceptions, McGraw Hill Education, Myth, Oliver Cox, Pearson Education, Prentice Hall, Scott Foresman, Secondary school, The American Pageant, The New Press.
- American Book Award-winning works
- Education controversies in the United States
- Eurocentrism
- History education
- Textbook controversies
- The New Press books
A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States is a 1980 nonfiction book (updated in 2003) by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. Lies My Teacher Told Me and a People's History of the United States are history books about the United States.
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African-American history
African-American history started with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Allyn & Bacon
Allyn & Bacon, founded in 1868, is a higher education textbook publisher in the areas of education, humanities and social sciences.
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Alternative facts
"Alternative facts" was a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance numbers of Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States.
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American Book Awards
The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement".
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American Educational Studies Association
The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) is an international learned society dedicated to research on education.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Commemorative plaque
A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker, historic marker, or historic plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, typically attached to a wall, stone, or other vertical surface, and bearing text or an image in relief, or both, to commemorate one or more persons, an event, a former use of the place, or some other thing.
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D. C. Heath and Company
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Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Western-centrism) refers to viewing the West as the center of world events or superior to all other cultures.
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Harcourt (publisher)
Harcourt was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.
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Hero
A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.
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Historiography
Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.
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History of the United States
The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC.
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Holt McDougal
Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in high schools.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.
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Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran.
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James W. Loewen
James William Loewen (February 6, 1942August 19, 2021) was an American sociologist, historian, and author.
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Jere T. Humphreys
Jere T. Humphreys (born March 26, 1949, Tennessee) is an American music scholar who applies historical, quantitative, philosophical, and sociological research methods to music education and arts business.
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Lies Across America
Lies Across America, a 1999 book by James Loewen, is a sequel to his 1995 work Lies My Teacher Told Me. Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America are historical revisionism and history books about the United States.
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List of common misconceptions
Each entry on this list of common misconceptions is worded as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated.
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McGraw Hill Education
McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
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Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
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Oliver Cox
Oliver Cromwell Cox (24 August 1901 – 4 September 1974) was a Trinidadian-American sociologist.
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Pearson Education
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.
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Prentice Hall
Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.
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Scott Foresman
Scott Foresman was an elementary educational publisher for PreK through Grade 6 in all subject areas.
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Secondary school
A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.
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The American Pageant
The American Pageant, initially published by Thomas A. Bailey in 1956, is an American high school history textbook often used for AP United States History, AICE American History as well as IB History of the Americas courses. Lies My Teacher Told Me and the American Pageant are 20th-century history books and history books about the United States.
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The New Press
The New Press is an independent non-profit public-interest book publisher established in 1992 by André SchiffrinReid, Calvin (December 2, 2013),, Publishers Weekly.
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See also
American Book Award-winning works
- A Brief History of Seven Killings
- A Different Mirror
- A Woman in Amber
- Beloved (novel)
- Black Athena
- Black Noise (book)
- Can't Stop Won't Stop (book)
- Cebu (novel)
- Ceremony (Silko novel)
- Dogeaters
- Eva Luna
- Fools Crow
- Griever: An American Monkey King in China
- Lakota Woman
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Love Medicine
- Marked by Fire
- Maus
- Miles: The Autobiography
- Native Speaker (novel)
- Obasan
- Praisesong for the Widow
- Reservation Blues
- Shell Shaker
- Slavery by Another Name
- The Chickencoop Chinaman
- The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co.
- The House on Mango Street
- The Light People
- The Moor's Account
- The Orchardist
- The Salt Eaters
- The Signifying Monkey
- The Year of the Dragon (play)
- This Bridge Called My Back
- Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
- Underworld (novel)
Education controversies in the United States
- Élan School
- 1911 Brigham Young University modernism controversy
- 2016–17 California textbook controversy over South Asian topics
- 2023 United States Congress hearing on antisemitism
- Anti-LGBT curriculum laws in the United States
- Anti-evolution legislation
- Antisemitism and higher education in the United States
- BSCS Science Learning
- Biscuit Fire publication controversy
- California textbook controversy over Hindu history
- Columbia Unbecoming controversy
- Cooper Union financial crisis and tuition protests
- Creation and evolution in public education in the United States
- Death of Max Benson
- Educational Research Analysts
- Hendren v. Campbell
- Higher education bubble in the United States
- Isaac Royall Jr.
- Kanawha County Textbook War
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Man: A Course of Study
- Munger Hall
- Of Pandas and People
- Political views of American academics
- Seclusion and restraint practices in the U.S. education system
- Slavery at American colleges and universities
- Steven Salaita hiring controversy
- T.M. Landry College Preparatory
- Teach the Controversy
- The Revisionaries
- Township High School District 211 transgender student locker room access controversies
- Trump University
- Willoughby v. Stever
- Wright v. Houston Independent School District
Eurocentrism
- Ancient Egyptian race controversy
- Ashkenormativity
- Barbary Coast
- Civilizing mission
- Eastern world
- Eurocentrism
- Far East
- Holocaust uniqueness debate
- Imperial feminism
- Levantinization
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Middle East
- Near East
- Orientalism
- The Crest of the Peacock
- The White Man's Burden
History education
- A Chart of Biography
- A History of the Modern World
- A New Chart of History
- Applied history
- Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Chronographer
- Creighton Lecture
- European History Network
- History, Classics and Archaeology Subject Centre
- International Summer University Kassel
- International Winter University Kassel
- Joseph Priestley and education
- Lectures on History and General Policy
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Multaka
- National History Day
- Popular history
- Teaching of Welsh history
- Teachinghistory.org
- The Concord Review
- Toller Lecture
Textbook controversies
- 2016–17 California textbook controversy over South Asian topics
- Alberta (Education) v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright)
- BSCS Science Learning
- Bias in curricula
- California textbook controversy over Hindu history
- Creation and evolution in public education
- Creation and evolution in public education in the United States
- Denial of Kurds by Turkey
- Educational Research Analysts
- Hamas–UNRWA Holocaust dispute
- Hendren v. Campbell
- Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education
- Japanese history textbook controversies
- Kanawha County Textbook War
- Karnataka textbook controversy
- Korean history textbook controversies
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
- NCERT textbook controversies
- Of Pandas and People
- Pakistani textbooks controversy
- Saffronisation
- Samacheer Kalvi
- Saudi Arabian textbook controversy
- Teach the Controversy
- Textbook controversies (disambiguation)
- Textbooks in Israel
- Textbooks in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- The Murder of History
- The Revisionaries
- Turkish textbook controversies
- Willoughby v. Stever
- Wright v. Houston Independent School District
The New Press books
- A New Leaf (book)
- American Power and the New Mandarins
- By the Sea (novel)
- Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan's Art
- Chokehold: Policing Black Men
- Dr. Seuss Goes to War
- Hell Is a Very Small Place
- Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Literature from the "Axis of Evil"
- Lower Ed
- Mouths of Rain
- October (novel)
- Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology
- Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy
- Slave Old Man
- Strangers in Their Own Land
- The Devil in Dover
- The Empire Strikes Out
- The New Jim Crow
- The Pinochet File
- The Withdrawal
- Thick: And Other Essays
- Understanding Power
- Usual Cruelty
- Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me
Also known as Lies My Teacher Taught Me, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong.