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American History
The title, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, is a quite shocking. To most students, textbooks are the "bibles" of that study, whether it is science or history. To think that a writer would knowingly put false statements in his book is almost unthinkable. After reading James W. Loewen's book, I now think otherwise. He points out many details that the standard textbook either forgot or got wrong. In this report, I will review chapters 2 and 4, and analyze them to see if the author proved his thesis. I will also compare his writings to the material I learned in my textbook. We all honor Christopher Columbus on his birthday, October 12. And why not. He did discover America. Didn't he? Not according to Loewen, who asserts that many people and civilizations reached America before Columbus. He also offers another version of the Spanish conquest and Columbus. How do we know that other civilizations were there before Columbus? There are a number of reasons. Henry the Navigator, who is supposed to have gotten his ideas from the Egyptians and Phoenicians, taught Columbus. This supports the conclusion that if the Egyptians and Phoenicians did give information to Henry, then they must have been to America themselves and passed on information to them. Take, for example, the Romans. There have been repeated cases of Roman coins being found in the Americas, producing the theory that Roman boats had reached the Americas. There are also maps that were found in Turkey, dated 1513, and are reported to have been based on maps from Alexander the Great's library, which have sketches of the coastline of South America and Antarctica. Also, two Indians became major curiosities in 60 B.C because they had been shipwrecked. This bit of information tells us that perhaps the Indians were beginning to make their own explorations. And let us not forget the Vikings. Textbooks minimize their role ... Please login to view comments from other users.
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