Was your high school history textbook telling the truth about America’s past? We’ll spend this hour with sociologist James W. Loewen, whose new book is “Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History” (Teachers College Press, 2009).
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