UPDATE: After reading the first 150 pages, now I just sorta have this book on my shelf and pick it up from time to time.This book is very good on a few levels ... It takes the textbook publishers to task for their weak glossing over of American history, and it emphasizes the use of primary docume...
This reviewer was born in Chicago – long known as one of the most racially segregated big cities in America -- and grew up in a sundown town – a working-class, industrial suburb west of Chicago. It was understood that no African-Americans were allowed to live in Franklin Park, even though hundre...
In Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me offers a graphic corrective to the Columbus story told in so many American classrooms. First published over fifteen years ago and long out-of-print, the poster and accompanying paperback book ...