Every October, the United States officially celebrates Columbus Day. Yet the story of Columbus is shrouded in myth and falsehoods, on display in the textbooks American kids are assigned. Sociologist and educator James Loewen, who died recently, set out to challenge that myth-making in his book Lies My Teacher Told Me, providing a salutary antidote to official history making and teaching.

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