This episode continues our discussion of James Loewen’s bestselling book Lies My Teacher Told Me. We look at the reason he gives for why high school history textbooks are so bad, and we spend much of the episode talking about how high school history classes could be improved.

Show Notes

Link to the Popular Info piece cited at the top of the episode.

Great quote from the book: “But only about history and social studies do writers actually ask, ‘Can textbooks have scholarly integrity?’ Only in history is accuracy so political.” (pg. 333)

Credits

The podcast’s theme music was made by our youngest brother Tate.

Cover art by Arthur Santoro.

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