Rethinking Our Past: Recognizing Facts, Fictions, And Lies In American History

"This course is designed to enlighten and encourage you to consider the factual basis of many of our most-cherished yet glossed-over stories and the real-life characters who populate them. From archaeological misinformation to investigations into the nature of modern public policy, Professor Loewen challenges you to consider the history of what "was" rather than what has been told by standard teaching methods and textbooks"—Container.

Subject
historypolitics
Genre
historical fiction
Audience
adult

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