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Everything You've Been Taught is Wrong (Portable Professor)

James W. Loewen

3.8/5 ( ratings)

PORTABLE PROFESSOR
TM
is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.

The study of the past is supposed to help us make sense of our place in history and inform the choices we make every day. But what if the lessons we were taught in American History class were not true? In this eye-opening and provocative series of lectures, renowned historian James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, unravels the fact from the fiction, the unvarnished truths from the convenient myths, and explains the reasons American history has so often been distorted.

COURSE LECTURES

Why Study the Past?
Archaeology and Prehistory
The Politics and History of Columbus
Pilgrims
Native American Societies and Cultures
The Making and Use of the Constitution
Slavery
The Civil War
The Civil War and Reconstruction
The Nadir of Race Relations
The Nadir of Race Relations
United States Foreign Policy
Capitalism and Social Class
Doing History Yourself

James W. Loewen holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University and has been a lecturer on the subject of race relations for a quarter century. He is the author of numerous books, including Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong and the best-selling Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, which won the American Book Award, the AESA Critics' Choice Award, and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Ant-Racist Scholarship, and upon which this course is based.

Format: Audio CD

Publisher: Barnes and Noble

Release: May 12, 2005

ISBN: 0760770328

ISBN 13: 9780760770320

Everything You've Been Taught is Wrong (Portable Professor)

James W. Loewen

3.8/5 ( ratings)

PORTABLE PROFESSOR
TM
is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.

The study of the past is supposed to help us make sense of our place in history and inform the choices we make every day. But what if the lessons we were taught in American History class were not true? In this eye-opening and provocative series of lectures, renowned historian James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, unravels the fact from the fiction, the unvarnished truths from the convenient myths, and explains the reasons American history has so often been distorted.

COURSE LECTURES

Why Study the Past?
Archaeology and Prehistory
The Politics and History of Columbus
Pilgrims
Native American Societies and Cultures
The Making and Use of the Constitution
Slavery
The Civil War
The Civil War and Reconstruction
The Nadir of Race Relations
The Nadir of Race Relations
United States Foreign Policy
Capitalism and Social Class
Doing History Yourself

James W. Loewen holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University and has been a lecturer on the subject of race relations for a quarter century. He is the author of numerous books, including Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong and the best-selling Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, which won the American Book Award, the AESA Critics' Choice Award, and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Ant-Racist Scholarship, and upon which this course is based.

Format: Audio CD

Publisher: Barnes and Noble

Release: May 12, 2005

ISBN: 0760770328

ISBN 13: 9780760770320

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