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History lessons how textbooks from around the world portray U.S. history

History Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004--including a full front-page review in the Washington Post Book World and features on NPR's Talk of the Nation and the History Channel--this book gives us a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed. Heralded as "timely and important" (History News Network) and "shocking and fascinating" (New York Times), History Lessons includes selections fro.

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  • "A glimpse into how the world views American history is offered in a study that presents a wide range of conflicting takes on events from textbooks in which many are the only authorized source of American history in their respective countries."
  • "History Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004--including a full front-page review in the Washington Post Book World and features on NPR's Talk of the Nation and the History Channel--this book gives us a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed. Heralded as "timely and important" (History News Network) and "shocking and fascinating" (New York Times), History Lessons includes selections fro."@en

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  • "Textbooks"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en

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  • "History lessons : how textbooks from around the world portray U.S. history"