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Lies My Teacher Told Me James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me By James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen


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Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation by James W. Loewen

At last! The long-awaited graphic version of the multi-million copy bestselling corrective to American history mythsadapted by the famed National Book Awardwinning artist behind John Lewiss March trilogy

Since its first publication in the 1990s, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important and successfuland belovedhistory books of our time. As the late Howard Zinn said, Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. Having sold well over 2 million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and numerous other commendations and prizes and was even heralded on the front page of the New York Times long after its first publication.

Now, the brilliant and award-winning artist Nate Powellthe first cartoonist ever to win a National Book Awardhas adapted Loewens classic work into a graphic edition that perfectly captures both Loewens text and the irreverent spirit of his work. Eye-popping illustrations bring to life the true history chronicled in Lies My Teacher Told Me, and ample text boxes and callouts ensure nothing is lost in translation. The book is perfect for those making their first foray past the shroud of history textbooks, and it will also be beloved by those who had their worldviews changed by the original.

Lies My Teacher Told Me Reviews

Praise for Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation:
"Powells characteristically fluid art lends new depth. . . . Long a favorite of radical educators, Loewens original text receives the vital and accessible adaptation it deserves."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"This new iteration cleverly demonstrates Loewens key concepts while vividly bringing the content to life."
Booklist

James Loewens classicLies My Teacher Told Meis an essential title in the pantheon of books that challenge commonly held racist historical assumptions about the past. This new graphic adaption will inspire even more readers, young and old, to interrogate these false narratives. Nate Powells wonderful illustrations capture Loewens sly humor and reverence for truth-telling and will entertain even as they inspire and teach."
Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Awardwinning author ofStamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America

"This updated version ofLies My Teacher Told MeNEEDS to be in every history classroom and incorporated into teacher education programs and coursework. Nate Powells captivating artwork adds depth and emotion that will help readers connect to our true, shared history in ways that prose alone cannot."
Tim Smyth, social studies teacher and author of the Eisner-nominatedTeaching with Comics and Graphic Novels

"Thank God for Nate Powellhis beautiful illustrations kept me rapt all through this groundbreaking work of history. No matter what you think you know about the story of America, theres something in this book that will blow your mind. Dive in!"
Adam Conover, comedian and host ofAdam Ruins EverythingandFactually with Adam Conover

"From fables of noble presidents and benevolent governments to falsehoods about classless and colorblind societies,Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptationreveals the deception of so many American history textbooks and provokes kids to ask, Why are they hiding the truth?"
Jesse Hagopian, teacher and co-editor ofTeaching for Black Lives

"Countless people have told me how their lives were changed by reading the originalLies My Teacher Told Meincluding many inspired to become U.S. history teachers themselves. With Nate Powells skillful adaptation and creative illustrations, readers can see detailed examples of how, to quote Loewen, history textbooks are anti-citizenship manuals, handbooks for acquiescence. This book will get young people asking the right questions and looking beyond textbooks for answers."
Deborah Menkart, executive director of Teaching for Change and co-director of the Zinn Education Project

"Nate Powells emotive graphics add a vital new dimension to James Loewens razor-sharp critique of our nations textbooks. This collaboration will reach those with the most to gain: students still spoon-fed with constrained narratives masquerading as history."
Ray Raphael, author ofA Peoples History of the American RevolutionandFounding Myths

"James Loewens history of our country is everything most textbooks are not: critical, idea-rich, anti-racist, class-consciousand funny. Loewens irreverent storytelling comes to life in Nate Powells action-packed adaptation of Loewens classicLies My Teacher Told Me. This volume is especially welcome at a moment when truthful history is under attack."
Bill Bigelow, curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools and co-director of Zinn Education Project

About James W. Loewen

James W. Loewen (19422021) was the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, Sundown Towns, and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers Edition (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. He won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.


Nate Powell is the first cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award, for civil rights icon John Lewiss March trilogy. Powells work has won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens selections, and two Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist selections. Powell has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBCs The Rachel Maddow Show, CNN, PBS, and Free Speech TV. The co-author, with James W. Loewen, of Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation (The New Press), he lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Additional information

NGR9781620977033
9781620977033
1620977036
Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation by James W. Loewen
New
Hardback
The New Press
2024-05-30
256
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