{"product_id":"9780807771242","title":"Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong\u003c\/em\u003e, Loewen goes beyond the usual textbook-dominated curriculum to illuminate a wealth of intriguing, often hidden facts about America’s past. Calling for a new way to teach history, this book offers teachers specific ideas for how to get students excited about history, how to get them to DO history, and how to help them read critically. It will specifically help teachers tackle difficult but important topics like the American Indian experience, slavery, and race relations. Throughout, Loewen shows how “teaching what really happened” not only connects better with all kinds of students, it better prepares those students to be tomorrow’s citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook features:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA refreshingly candid assessment of the pitfalls and potential of American history education.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdeas from teachers across the country who are empowering students with the real story of America’s history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStrategies for teaching historiography and incorporating project-oriented, self-learning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpecific chapters dedicated to the five content topics usually taught particularly badly in today’s schools.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames W. Loewen \u003c\/strong\u003eis the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Lies Across America\u003c\/em\u003e. He taught race relations for twenty years at the University of Vermont and gives workshops for teacher groups around the United States. He has been an expert witness in more than 50 civil rights, voting rights, and employment cases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“James Loewen's new book should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country. It is not only a devastating critique of how our nation's history has been taught in our schools, but also a wonderful guide to how the teaching of history can open up minds, excite the imagination, and educate a new generation dedicated to making this a better world.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eHoward Zinn, \u003c\/strong\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eA People’s History of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Loewen’s candid and revealing descriptions of institutional racism in U.S. society and in textbooks are not presented to make students cynical or disempowered, but to help them acquire the knowledge, skills, and commitments needed to attain agency and to act to create a better world.”\u003cbr\u003e—From the Series Foreword by \u003cstrong\u003eJames A. Banks,\u003c\/strong\u003e Director of the Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington, Seattle; Past President of the the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• James Loewen, recipient of the 2012 “Spirit of America Award” from the National Council for the Social Studies\u003cbr\u003e• James Loewen, recipient of the 2012 “Cox-Johnson-Frazier Major Award” from the American Sociological Association \u003cbr\u003e• ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Finalist in Education, 2010\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Teachers College Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107325690096,"sku":"9780807771242","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807771242_p0.jpg?v=1763739508","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807771242","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}