Teaching What Really Happened: How To Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks & Get Students Excited About Doing History, by James W. Loewen. New York: Teachers College Press, 2010, 248 pp., $21.95, paperback.
James Loewen's Teaching What Really Happened: How To Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks & Get Students Excited About Doing History showcases the author's command on race, its social and economical implications, and its long-term impacts on the interpretation and presentation of United States history. As the title suggests, Loewen's most-emphasized recommendation to educators and students is to rely not on a single textbook. Instead he insists that drawing on information presented …