Audiobook James Loewen - Lies My Teacher Told Me & Lectures Rethinking our Past

Rethinking Our Past: Recognizing Facts Fictions, and Lies in American History - 7 Discs with 14 Lectures
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - 12 Discs Unabridged

http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Me/dp/1402579373/

From Publishers Weekly
Loewen's politically correct critique of 12 American history textbooks—including The American Pageant by Thomas A. Bailey and David M. Kennedy; and Triumph of the American Nation by Paul Lewis Todd and Merle Curti—is sure to please liberals and infuriate conservatives. In condemning the way history is taught, he indicts everyone involved in the enterprise: authors, publishers, adoption committees, parents and teachers. Loewen (Mississippi: Conflict and Change) argues that the bland, Eurocentric treatment of history bores most elementary and high school students, who also find it irrelevant to their lives. To make learning more compelling, Loewen urges authors, publishers and teachers to highlight the drama inherent in history by presenting students with different viewpoints and stressing that history is an ongoing process, not merely a collection of—often misleading—factoids. Readers interested in history, whether liberal or conservative, professional or layperson, will find food for thought here. Illustrate.


Rethinking Our Past: Recognizing Facts Fictions, and Lies in American History

http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/1402581947
http://www.rbfilm.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=scholar.show_course&course_id=48

Course Syllabus 14 lectures 7 discs
Lecture 1 Why Study the Past?

Lecture 2 Archaeology and Prehistory

Lecture 3 The Politics and History of Columbus

Lecture 4 Pilgrims

Lecture 5 Native American Societies and Cultures

Lecture 6 The Making and Use of the Constitution

Lecture 7 Slavery

Lecture 8 The Civil War

Lecture 9 The Civil War (Continued) and Reconstruction

Lecture 10 The Nadir of Race Relations

Lecture 11 The Nadir of Race Relations (Continued)

Lecture 12 United States Foreign Policy

Lecture 13 Capitalism and Social Class

Lecture 14 Doing History Yourself

You will get the most from this course by reading or listening to Professor Loewen’s book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Within that book are many facts about American (and world) history to which most people have simply never been exposed. Nationalist history by textbook authors and the descendants or biographers of the famous and infamous have given history students a very skewed vision of our true history—indeed, the true history of mankind.

This course is designed to enlighten and encourage you to consider the factual basis of many of our most-cherished yet glossed-over stories and the real-life characters who populate them. From archaeological misinformation to investigations into the nature of modern public policy, Professor Loewen challenges you to consider the history of what “was” rather than what has been told by standard teaching methods and textbooks.

This is history revealed. This is history as it was made, not as it is usually taught by well-meaning, but misdirected, teachers. Go back in time and recover what has been “lost.” The historical truth helps to make sense of our present circumstances as Americans and for our future as world citizens.