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| | Description | In this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen continues to break silences and change our perspectives on U.S. history. Loewen takes history textbooks to task for their perpetuations of myth and their lack of awareness of today's multicultural student audience (not to mention the astonishing number of facts they just got plain wrong).
How did people get here? Why did Europe win? Why Did the South Secede? In Teaching What Really Happened, Loewen goes beyond the usual textbook-dominated viewpoints to illuminate a wealth of intriguing, often hidden facts about America's past. Calling for a new way to teach history, this book will help teachers move beyond traditional textbooks to tackle difficult but important topics like conflicts with Native Americans, slavery, and race relations. Throughout, Loewen shows time and again how teaching what really happened connects better with all kinds of students to get them excited about history. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | James W. Loewen | | Paperback: | 264 pages | | Publisher: | Teachers College Press | | Publication Date: | October 01, 2009 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0807749915 | | Product Length: | 8.18 inches | | Product Width: | 7.12 inches | | Product Height: | 0.57 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.81 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.9 inches | | Package Width: | 6.1 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 13 reviews |
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58 of 64 found the following review helpful:
 Must read for all new teachers Dec 06, 2009
By Ann M. Clark
"Kevin Clark"
Loewen proves again why traditional tesxtbook publishers hate him so much. His insights into the problems of teaching history are spot on. Reliance on a textbook is relying on a very limited and deficient weapon. The key is that a real teacher of history needs to be constantly reading, articles, books, editorials, et al, to provide their students with a true history education. History is the easiest subject to teach badly and the hardest subject to teach well. Take the time and do it well.
Kevin Clark
32 of 34 found the following review helpful:
One of the few books about how to teach history meaningfully. Aug 01, 2010
By Roman
Wow, some other reviewers have an ax to grind, but I am not sure why they pick on Mr. Loewen to do so. The book is a thoughtful (although sometimes polemic) presentation on why teachers should teach the process of how history is written as well and cover meaningful content. This is in contrast to the "laundry list" style of teaching that most history classes consist of. Loewen argues for more thoughtful and deliberate units that call for analysis and connections between concepts. He asks teachers to ask "Why am I teaching this?" in order for them to be able to communicate to students the significance of the material they are studying.
I did not see any "America hate" in the book. What I see is a passion for history and a call for meaningful and thoughtful history education.
21 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Required Reading Aug 16, 2010
By J-Dog
This is an amazing book that provides a lot of creative solutions to common problems in the diversity of education. For example, he offers the idea of having students study secondary sources about the same topic, but written in different eras, and compare them as a way to learn that history is a reflection of the time in which it is written.
This book is also very informative, whether the topic is problems in archaeology or problems in race relations, I learned a lot.
The final thing I want to say is this book is a very easy, very fast read. The text looks dense, but I assure you, it is only an illusion.
32 of 40 found the following review helpful:
 old sources & funky history Feb 17, 2011
By Constant Reader
This book is partly an attack on how history is taught at the high school level and partly a rewriting/explanation of the six areas that teachers get wrong most often. Both are problematic, although his main point-- that bad textbooks are boring-- is indisputable. (His constant mentioning of his own previous book as the antidote certainly made it clear what he thought a good one looks like!) I'll admit I was surprised at the statistics on how few high school teachers had taken history classes, until I looked in the footnotes and found the number was from 20 years ago-- they've changed the standards since then, actually. Eventually I found myself reading with one finger in the back so I could see how old & outdated his information was, point by point, although I appreciate that there were footnotes at all.
Some of his points seem well-argued, others are odd (his argument that you should not teach anything you don't understand, for instance-- he doesn't teach the Progressive Era, apparently-- why wouldn't you go learn about it if it's your job to teach history?), and still others are just silly-- I have a PhD, and, while I love to see my students learn about history, they don't immediately know more than me when they start learning (if they did, I'd want my money back from my grad school!)
The part of secession was interesting, and there he quotes to back up his argument, but the facts start getting very funky toward the end of this book. The final chapter presents an argument for a periodization of American history that features "The Nadir," supposedly the low-point of race relations, dating from 1890-1940. Loewen's constant conflation of "race" and "African-American" is on full display here-- Japanese-Americans hit their nadir after this period, for instance, while Native Americans preceded it (something Loewen clearly knows, but doesn't engage with). His explanation of why "the Nadir" happened is so oversimplified as to be bizarre (for example, we didn't take over Hawaii because, as racists, we tjust hought we could "govern better than brown people," we also did it due to a combination of economic interests related to sugarcane and to provide a naval base closer to an expanding imperial Japan). And where does teaching the Nadir leave teachers who want to talk about African-American service in WWI, or the Harlem Renaissance, or the rise of LULAC...? I understand the reviewers reading this who have been turned off by the politics, but, as a historian, I was turned off by the bad history.
By all means, teachers saddled with lousy textbooks should find ways to engage students-- and I think, to their credit, the vast majority of them try. This book, however, doesn't offer a solid alternative, although readers may find some of it thought-provoking (it would help to have enough historical background to separate out the good from the false information, however).
7 of 9 found the following review helpful:
A most important sequel to "Lies My Teacher Told Me" Oct 24, 2010
By Charles E. Reitz
James Loewen's scholarship and philosophical perspective liberate his history-writing from the WASP mono-cultural perspective that has distorted learning in the U.S. for generations. A model for critical pedagogy and multicultural reform of curriculum.
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