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At last The long-awaited graphic version of the multi-million copy bestselling corrective to American history myths--adapted by the famed National Book Award-winning artist behind John Lewis's March trilogy Since its first publication in the 1990s, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the mos... Read More about Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation

"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."--Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a... Read More about Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important--and successful--history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, ... Read More about Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

"Powerful and important . . . an instant classic." --The Washington Post Book World The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, ... Read More about Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award-winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history."--Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the aut... Read More about Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself." --Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, wit... Read More about Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong