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Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Language
English
Description
The story of America's past has been hijacked by liberal historians who describe a country built on racism, sexism, and greed. For the past forty years, these so-called intellectuals have defended their position by claiming to speak for the disenfranchised masses while undermining the truly great achievements of American's patriots, founders, and heroes. This book corrects those doctrinaire biases and reexamines American's discovery, founding and...
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students?an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond.Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Language
English
Description
This book began as an attempt to bring more life to the reading and learning of history. As practicing historians, we have been troubled by a growing disinterest in or even animosity toward the study of the past. How is it that when we and other historians have found so much that excites curiosity, other people find history irrelevant and boring? Perhaps, we thought, if lay readers and students understood better how historians go about their work...
7) Lies my teacher told me: everything American history textbooks get wrong : young readers' edition
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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.
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