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Bezig met laden... Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation (editie 2024)door James W. Loewen (Auteur), Nate Powell (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. James W. Loewen and Nate Powell’s Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbooks Got Wrong adapts Loewen’s earlier texts about the poor presentation of American history in textbooks found throughout America’s public schools. Powell – best known for working with John Lewis in his three-volume graphic memoir, March – illustrated and adapted the book following a conversation with Loewen and states that it should be read as a companion to Loewen’s other texts (p. 263). They follow the most significant myths in U.S. history, from Christopher Columbus to the First Thanksgiving, Native American history to the Civil War and abolition, social class and government power to the recent past. Critical to their arguments are the simple yet regularly overlooked theses that “ideas actually matter” (p. 135), “events of one period might cause events later in history” (p. 202), progress narratives primarily serve to get textbooks adopted by schools rather than to effectively convey history (p. 239), and history textbook writers take into account social mores far more than any other subject (p. 247). All of this serves to turn students off to the study of history and misrepresent documented facts in order to serve those in power. Loewen and Powell want their readers to appreciate history and see it as a living field worthy of serious investigation. This book is a critical text for anyone teaching history and for those who found themselves disappointed with their textbooks. ( ) This graphic non-fiction work seems meant to provide an introduction to many stories in the history of the United States that have been elided, ignored, or mistold by American high school history textbooks. Since it's only pointing out omissions and giving a very light gloss on what students could be taught, it's really only enough to start one's interest in these historical events and people—it would have benefited from the bibliographies and "further readings" that are apparently present in the original book by James W. Loewen, which this adapts (and which I haven't read). Without having read the original, I really appreciated the visual element of the storytelling here. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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