Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong (Young Readers')

基本信息

作者: James W. Loewen

Hardback: 256頁

出版社: The New Press (2019年4月23日)

語種: 英語

ISBN: 9781620974698                                                

產品尺寸及重量: 148 x 223 x 30 (mm) | 460g

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

詹姆斯·洛温發現，美國課堂上使用的教科書都充斥着錯誤的信息和短視的見解。本書針對這一現象寫作而成，它改變了我們與美國曆史的關係。在書中，洛温詳細剖析了美國現行的歷史教科書，並對教科書中的謊言進行了細緻入微的分析，展示了歷史的生動性與複雜性。

他從前哥倫布時代着筆，涉獵重建、海倫·凱勒、第一個感恩節、梅萊大屠殺等多種人物與事件，對現有的教科書提出了令人大開眼界的批評，對美國曆史進行了令人着迷的重述，指出了美國曆史應該如何以及能夠如何向美國學生講授。他指出愛國主義是謊言的主要温牀，為了宣揚愛國主義，美國中學歷史教科書不惜“肢解”歷史，英雄化歷史人物，如哥倫布、傑斐遜、帕特里克·亨利、海倫·凱勒、威爾遜、林肯，等等。洛温痛心地指出，愛國主義無助於培養學生的獨立思考能力。

Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction children’s writer who adapted Howard Zinn’s bestseller A People’s History of the United States for young readers, makes Loewen’s beloved work available to younger students.

Essential reading in our age of fake news and slippery, sloppy history, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition cuts through the mindless optimism and outright lies found in most textbooks that are often not even really written by their “authors.” Loewen is, as historian Carol Kammen has said, the history teacher we all should have had. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and then covering characters and events as diverse as the first Thanksgiving, Helen Keller, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen’s lively, provocative telling of American history is a “counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past” (The Nation).

This streamlined young readers’ edition is rich in vivid details and quotations from primary sources that poke holes in the textbook versions of history and help students develop a deeper understanding of our world. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition brings this classic text to a new generation of readers (and their parents and teachers) who will welcome and value its honesty, its humor, and its integrity.

作者簡介

詹姆斯·洛温:美國著名學者，佛蒙特大學社會學退休教授，現居華盛頓。

詹姆斯·洛温的其他著作有: 《謊言遍佈美國:我們的歷史景點中的錯誤》 《老師告訴我的關於克里斯托弗·哥倫布的謊言》 《密西西比華人:夾在黑人與白人之間》 《密西西比:衝突與變革》[與查爾斯·薩里斯(Charles Sallis)等合著] 《重新思考我們的過去:識別美國曆史中的事實、虛構與謊言》 《審判席上的社會科學》《日落之鎮:美國種族主義的隱祕向度》等。

James W. Loewen is the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, Sundown Towns, and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. He has won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Loewen is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, DC.