However, white students also "hate history," and consider it "'the most irrelevant' of twenty-one subjects commonly taught in high school" (p. Loewen cites studies whose results reveal that "African American, Native American, and Latino students view history with a special dislike." They make only slightly lower grades than white students in high school mathematics, but much lower grades in history. He asserts that "history is the only field in which the more courses students take, the stupider they become" (p. Along the way, he indicts the authors and publishers of these textbooks for what he sees as the sorry state of American history education in the nation's high schools. Through his sometimes light-in-tone but unusually hard-hitting narrative, the author provides information and insights that all Americans would do well to consider, especially those without college-level training or the equivalent in American history. Loewen describes his survey of twelve high school American history textbooks published between 19, inclusively.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.
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