It is regarded as one of the most important products of humanity’s activity. Teachers can also encourage their students to critique their textbooks” (Loewen 359).Ĭhapter 11 of the book deals with the discussion of progress. “Then students are challenged to discuss events and processes in the past that cause these differences. Loewen states that these differences give the students the opportunity to analyze the facts themselves and find out the reasons of such differences. The author tells that different textbooks may provide with the different facts which cover the same period of time: “Indeed their attention to the recent past reflects their authors’ intention of making history relevant to current events and issues” (Loewen 412).
Thus, the chapter 10 deals with the information about the differences in historical facts presented in many textbooks.
So, it is necessary to outline the most essential interesting issues covered in the chapters 10-13. Moreover, according to the recent studies the minor part of the students who do well in math and other precise sciences and subjects constantly fail American history. After all, presented the collide of Native population with Europeans, relationships between Europeans, a rebellion and the organizing of a republic, a gory civil war and several world wars, the clashes in Korea and Vietnam, a lot of years of racial and prejudiced pressures, the history of America is intrinsically impressive. James Loewen, the professor of sociology tries to find out why American history is, for the most part of school and college students, the most detested and least unforgettable subject. This book is a kind of the author’s reflection about American history and the reasons why students and pupils do not like this subject. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Needless to say that the works related to the psychology are extremely interesting. English literature is presented by numerous writers and poets, which present their pieces of work on different topics and of various styles.
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