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"Textbooks Tell Lies, Teachers Told At UM"
By Jodi Rave (Missoulian)
BILLINGS GAZETTE
June 22, 2006
http://www.billingsgazett...tbooks.txt
"MISSOULA -- James Loewen believes he's the only man who has intensively read 12 high school textbooks on history. He calls it a "near-death experience."
That's because the books, he said, exclude scholarly research and borrow misinformation from older textbooks written during the nadir of racism 1890 to 1940 in the United States. Ultimately, students are taught myths, such as that American Indians sold Manhattan Island for $24.
Loewen, author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me," was a featured speaker this week at the Indian Education for All Institute at the University of Montana. More than 800,000 copies of his book have been sold, but when it was first published more than a decade ago, some teachers complained about the title. . . ."
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They're often boring as well
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By Jodi Rave (Missoulian)
BILLINGS GAZETTE
June 22, 2006
http://www.billingsgazett...tbooks.txt
"MISSOULA -- James Loewen believes he's the only man who has intensively read 12 high school textbooks on history. He calls it a "near-death experience."
That's because the books, he said, exclude scholarly research and borrow misinformation from older textbooks written during the nadir of racism 1890 to 1940 in the United States. Ultimately, students are taught myths, such as that American Indians sold Manhattan Island for $24.
Loewen, author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me," was a featured speaker this week at the Indian Education for All Institute at the University of Montana. More than 800,000 copies of his book have been sold, but when it was first published more than a decade ago, some teachers complained about the title. . . ."
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They're often boring as well

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