I just finished the graphic novel version of *Lies my teacher told me*. I couldn't recommend it more. Every school should have some copies.
Here's a link for a place you can buy it that isn't Amazon: https://bookshop.org/p/books/lies-my-teacher-told-me-a-graphic-adaptation-james-w-loewen/20302331
James Loewen, Author Of 'Lies My Teacher Told Me,' Dies At 79
... Loewen told NPR ... in 2018 that he decided to write his first high school text about race and history when he asked a class of students at Tougaloo College, a historically Black university near Jackson, Miss., what they knew about Reconstruction.
"And what happened to me was an 'aha' experience, although you might better consider it an 'oh no' experience"... "Sixteen out of my 17 students said, 'Well, Reconstruction was the period right after the Civil War when Blacks took over the government of the Southern states, but they were too soon out of slavery, and so they screwed up and white folks had to take control again.' "
[T]here were "at least three direct lies in that sentence" ...
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1030442282/james-loewen-author-of-lies-my-teacher-told-me-dies-at-79
#obituary #JamesLoewen #LiesMyTeacherToldMe #History #Racism #Socialism #NativeAmericans #RacialJustice
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