- Historiography, Racism in textbooks, Thanksgiving Day, Beeldvorming
Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and plot-driven.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- James W. Loewen
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 405
- Publisher
- JOVERS, Distributed by Norton, Hong zhuo wen hua
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Chinese, Spanish, English, Korean
- ISBN
- 9780613706476
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