lies my teacher told essay
James W. Loewen’s book Lies My Teacher Told Me certainly has an intriguing title. The subtitle also promises to captivate. What Loewen promises is to reveal age old secrets that have been kept from us in an effort to slur history. This point can be found accurate; from a certain point of view. In Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen shows how “heroification” has skewed American history so that the white male looks, in extreme layman term, “king shit”. I find Loewen’s proposal shocking. While admittedly much of history is in accurate and poorly represented, Loewen attempts to persuade readers to no longer believe anything they have learned in regards to history. Loewen does not go so far as to accuse instructors of these falsehoods, he does fairly place the blame on textbooks.