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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. Loewen describes the process of history as a pyramid, progressing through primary resources and secondary sources until it reaches doctoral historians that in turn write textbooks. This is where history takes a nose dive and instead of real research taking place, the same sugar coated stories are rehashed as if in a new and illuminating light.
Approximate Word count = 648
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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