Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national
bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its
conflict, drama, and complexity
Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and
successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two
million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver
Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now
Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction children’s writer who
adapted Howard Zinn’s bestseller A People’s History of the United
States for young readers, makes Loewen’s beloved work available to
younger students.
Essential reading in
our age of fake news and slippery, sloppy history, Lies My Teacher
Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition cuts through the mindless
optimism and outright lies found in most textbooks that are often not
even really written by their “authors.” Loewen is, as historian
Carol Kammen has said, the history teacher we all should have had.
Beginning with pre-Columbian history and then covering characters and
events as diverse as the first Thanksgiving, Helen Keller, the My Lai
massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen’s lively, provocative
telling of American history is a “counter-textbook that retells the
story of the American past” (The Nation).
This streamlined
young readers’ edition is rich in vivid details and quotations from
primary sources that poke holes in the textbook versions of history
and help students develop a deeper understanding of our world. Lies
My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition brings this classic
text to a new generation of readers (and their parents and teachers)
who will welcome and value its honesty, its humor, and its integrity.