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Examines the truths and myths surrounding the voyages of Columbus, presenting an alternative history intended to differ from that offered in many school textbooks.

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9781595589859 | 2 pap/pstr edition (New Pr, August 12, 2014), cover price $17.95
9781565840089 | New Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Examines the truths and myths surrounding the voyages of Columbus, presenting an alternative history intended to differ from that offered in many school textbooks.

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By James W. Loewen (editor) and Edward H. Sebesta (editor)

Hardcover:

9781604737882 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, September 15, 2010, cover price $25.00
9781223011363 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, September 15, 2010, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: In this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen continues to break silences and change our perspectives on U.S. history. Loewen takes history textbooks to task for their perpetuations of myth and their lack of awareness of today’s multicultural student audience (not to mention the astonishing number of “facts” they just get plain wrong)...read more

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9780807749920 | Teachers College Pr, October 30, 2009, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: In this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen continues to break silences and change our perspectives on U.

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A history of northern racial exclusion demonstrates the pervasiveness of racism throughout the entire United States, analyzing how 'sundown towns' in northern states participated in racially oppressive practices and victimized black citizens with frequently violent attacks well into the late twentieth century. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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9781565848870 | New Pr, August 25, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A narrative investigation of segregation practices in the northern sections of twentieth-century America reveals how racial exclusion and oppression persisted into the contemporary era, in an account that challenges modern beliefs about race and racism.

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9780743294485 | Touchstone Books, October 3, 2006, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A narrative investigation of segregation practices in the northern sections of twentieth-century America reveals how racial exclusion and oppression persisted into the contemporary era, in an account that challenges modern beliefs about race and racism.

Miscellaneous:

9781595586742 | New Pr, September 29, 2005, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: This national best-seller and American Book Award winner is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. James W. Loewen, a distinguished critic of history education, puts 12 popular textbooks under the microscope...read more

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9781402579370 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, December 30, 2003), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This national best-seller and American Book Award winner is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students.

Prebinding:

9780613706476 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $26.25 | About this edition: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history

The author brings together personal accounts, speeches, letters, and official documents to create a documentary alternative history of the United States, from Quaker accounts of the conscientous objector during the Civil War through the anti-corporate movement. Original.
By Nathaniel May (editor) and Clint Willis (editor)

Paperback:

9789990102673 | Pub Group West, November 1, 2003, cover price $0.02
9781560255055 | Da Capo Pr, October 27, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author brings together personal accounts, speeches, letters, and official documents to create a documentary alternative history of the United States, from Quaker accounts of the conscientous objector during the Civil War through the anti-corporate movement.

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Examines more than one hundred sites that promote incorrect interpretations of American history and raises questions about what Americans choose to commemorate. Originally published as Lies Across America. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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9781565843448 | New Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Examines more than one hundred sites that promote incorrect interpretations of history and raises questions about what Americans choose to commemorate

Paperback:

9780743296298 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, October 16, 2007), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Examines more than one hundred sites that promote incorrect interpretations of history and raises questions about what Americans choose to commemorate.
9780684870670 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, November 1, 2000), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Examines more than one hundred sites that promote incorrect interpretations of history and raises questions about what Americans choose to commemorate.

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Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Hardcover:

9781595583260 | Rev upd edition (New Pr, April 1, 2008), cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780743296281 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, October 16, 2007), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.
9780684818863 | Touchstone Books, September 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history
9789990036169 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1996, cover price $0.02

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A tenth-anniversary commemorative edition of the award-winning history of America begins with pre-Columbian history and covers a diverse range of events, from the Reconstruction and the life of Helen Keller to the first Thanksgiving and the Mai Lai massacre. Reissue. (view table of contents)

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9781565841000 | Reissue edition (New Pr, August 4, 1995), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history

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Provides a history of Chinese Americans living in the Mississippi Delta region.

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9780881333121 | 2 sub edition (Waveland Pr Inc, January 1, 1988), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Provides a history of Chinese Americans living in the Mississippi Delta region.

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A chronicle of Mississippi history that addresses the problems and issues that have plagued the state

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9780394710082 | Revised edition (Random House Inc, February 1, 1982), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A chronicle of Mississippi history that addresses the problems and issues that have plagued the state

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