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Teaching what really happened : how to avoid the tyranny of textbooks and get students excited about doing history / James W. Loewen.
Author
Loewen, James W.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Second edition.
Published/Created
New York : Teachers College Press, [2018]
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages)
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Subject(s)
United States
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History
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Textbooks
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United States
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History
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Study and teaching
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United States
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Historiography
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Series
Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
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Multicultural education series
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 14, 2018).
Contents
Introduction: History as weapon.
A lesson from Mississippi
A lesson from Vermont
Why history is important to students
Why history is important to society
The tyranny of coverage. Forests, trees, and twigs
Winnowing trees
Deep thinking
Relevance to the present
Skills
Getting the principal on board
Coping with reasons to teach "as usual"
You are not alone
Bringing students along
Expecting excellence. Student characteristics affect teacher expectations
"Standardized" tests affect teacher expectations
Statistical processes cause cultural bias in "standardized" tests
Internalizing expectations
Teachers can create their own expectations
Historiography. A tale of two eras
The civil rights movement, cognitive dissonance, and historiography
Studying bad history
Other ways to teach historiography
Doing History. Doing history to critique history
Writing a paper
Bringing families In
Local history
Getting started
Final product
Using the Product
Truth. Background of the problem
Separating matters of fact from matters of opinion
Five tests to assess credibility
How and when did people get here? A crash course on archaeological issues
Presentism
Today's religions and yesterday's history
Conclusions about presentism
Chronological ethnocentrism
Primitive to civilized
Costs of chronological ethnocentrism
Why did Europe win? The important questions
Looking around the world
Explaining civilization
Making the Earth round
Why did Columbus win?
The Columbian exchange
Ideological results of Europe's victory
Cultural diffusion and syncretism continue
The $24 myth. Deconstructing the $24 myth
A more accurate story
Functions of the fable
Overt racism?
Additional considerations
Slavery. Relevance to the present
Hold a meta-conversation
Slavery and racism
Four key problems of slave life
Additional problems in teaching the history of slavery
The Confederacy. Teachers vote
Teaching against the states' right myth
Critiquing textbooks
Our Confederate landscape
Genesis of the problem
The Nadir. Contemporary relevance
Onset of the Nadir
Historical causes of antiracist idealism
Historical causes of the Nadir of race relations
Students can reveal the Nadir themselves
During the Nadir, whites became white
End of the Nadir
Implications for today
Afterword: Still more ways to teach history.
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ISBN
9780807777312 ((electronic book))
0807777315 ((electronic book))
LCCN
2018038140
OCLC
1048657043
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