ChoralScholar
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Thu Apr-02-09 12:21 AM
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| 17. I've read "Lies My Teacher Told Me" |
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And gave my copy to our Social Studies chairperson at my last school.
It is a great book.
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| -The Distortion of U.S. History |
Time for change |
Apr-01-09 05:41 PM |
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I've used "Lies My Teacher Told Me," as a teaching tool. |
Fire1 |
Apr-01-09 05:50 PM |
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That's great to hear that you're using it |
Time for change |
Apr-01-09 07:04 PM |
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We used it in intermediate social studies and had great fun |
Fire1 |
Apr-01-09 07:56 PM |
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... |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
Apr-01-09 05:56 PM |
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"no single historical event" |
Beam Me Up |
Apr-01-09 07:39 PM |
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We know |
BeFree |
Apr-01-09 08:08 PM |
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It already has. |
Beam Me Up |
Apr-01-09 08:20 PM |
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Good point |
BeFree |
Apr-01-09 08:34 PM |
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Perhaps you're right about that |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 09:26 AM |
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It's been said that both parties love this country. |
Wapsie B |
Apr-01-09 07:45 PM |
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goper love of our nation, reminds me of a phrase, I heard off base |
Uncle Joe |
Apr-01-09 07:54 PM |
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It's too late now. |
Beam Me Up |
Apr-01-09 07:57 PM |
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That's an important distinction |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 01:39 PM |
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Wow I just read the whole darn thing |
zeemike |
Apr-01-09 08:13 PM |
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Thank you -- The JFK assassination is a seminal event in American history IMO |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 05:32 AM |
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And actually I was one of them |
zeemike |
Apr-02-09 07:49 AM |
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Seems to me there was a story here that talked about a group of conservative fundies |
Wapsie B |
Apr-01-09 09:11 PM |
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"Lies My Teacher Told Me" |
pnorman |
Apr-01-09 09:48 PM |
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I think you'll be glad that you did. |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 05:42 PM |
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The fact is a lot of history is biasedly told by the winners |
ShadowLiberal |
Apr-01-09 10:44 PM |
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That is certainly true |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 10:48 AM |
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"Lies My Teacher Told Me" is a great book |
hendo |
Apr-01-09 11:15 PM |
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I've read "Lies My Teacher Told Me" |
ChoralScholar |
Apr-02-09 12:21 AM |
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Expanding on CIA lies. |
reprehensor |
Apr-02-09 06:02 AM |
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There are several CIAs, and several "Secret Governments". There is no conspiracy, just a |
leveymg |
Apr-02-09 11:19 AM |
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I don't think we can assume that just because they had a lot of stuff hanging over JFK that |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 05:48 PM |
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I'm fing confused here |
pnutbutr |
Apr-02-09 06:15 AM |
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It's about both. You don't see a relationship? |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 06:58 AM |
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I'd be worried |
pnutbutr |
Apr-02-09 07:10 AM |
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But history is currently grossly misrepresented in our schools |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 07:33 AM |
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maybe |
pnutbutr |
Apr-02-09 07:44 AM |
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That is really the problem in education...low expectations. |
zeemike |
Apr-02-09 08:05 AM |
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The point of the post being though that the "basics" taught in primary and secondary school.. |
Fumesucker |
Apr-02-09 07:39 AM |
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I've never read it |
pnutbutr |
Apr-02-09 07:45 AM |
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From an Amazon customer review.. |
Fumesucker |
Apr-02-09 08:10 AM |
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um |
pnutbutr |
Apr-02-09 08:20 AM |
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It was easier than typing it all out.. |
Fumesucker |
Apr-02-09 08:47 AM |
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pretty much |
pnutbutr |
Apr-02-09 08:54 AM |
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Try reading, probably one of the most important history books ever written. |
Dr.Phool |
Apr-02-09 04:41 PM |
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I wasn't aware that |
pnutbutr |
Apr-03-09 11:32 AM |
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The Civil War wasn't about slavery... |
crimsonblue |
Apr-02-09 01:59 PM |
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Large blunt object to pound square peg into round hole |
nolabels |
Apr-03-09 11:22 AM |
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The war was organized carnage. |
crimsonblue |
Apr-03-09 01:19 PM |
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Perhaps my understanding of what defines the word known as "War" is confused |
nolabels |
Apr-03-09 03:18 PM |
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no shit |
pnutbutr |
Apr-03-09 11:27 AM |
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Excellent post and discussion. K&R. |
trof |
Apr-02-09 06:42 AM |
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Howard Zinn: A People's History Of The United States |
Echo In Light |
Apr-02-09 06:49 AM |
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Important book-and it's available in children form! "A Young People's History of the U.S" |
mod mom |
Apr-02-09 08:11 AM |
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I read that book many years ago, and it gave me a great deal to think about |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 02:55 PM |
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A hypothetical post Q&A may unfortunately pan out like FOX "news" vs Mother Jones |
Echo In Light |
Apr-02-09 04:52 PM |
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Ooops, sorry, I just posted above about Zinn's book. |
Dr.Phool |
Apr-02-09 04:43 PM |
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Two-tiered educational system as proposed by the Hoover Institute |
underpants |
Apr-02-09 07:13 AM |
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This is a great post. |
snake in the grass |
Apr-02-09 08:14 AM |
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Thank you -- I think you'll be glad that you ordered them. |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 05:50 PM |
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K&R! The omission of our recent history |
juno jones |
Apr-02-09 08:25 AM |
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The Kennedy assassination is but one example of the malignant altering of facts. |
Larry Ogg |
Apr-02-09 11:56 AM |
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Well, that makes as much sense as anything else I've read on this subject |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 04:27 PM |
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I agree… It’s like the old saying, “You can’t fight City Hall…” |
Larry Ogg |
Apr-02-09 08:44 PM |
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Yes, I liked your metaphor about the PTB |
Time for change |
Apr-03-09 08:12 PM |
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What's taking so long for the digitized dictabelt . . . |
mistertrickster |
Apr-02-09 12:14 PM |
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I don't know |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 04:54 PM |
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If I'm not mistaken there was a story here way in the murky past |
Wapsie B |
Apr-02-09 03:13 PM |
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It was a couple in Texas. Heavily funded by the Coors Foundation and others. |
Dr.Phool |
Apr-02-09 04:50 PM |
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One of our local H.S.s here in NoVA is using Howard Zinn's "A Peoples History of the United States" |
ShortnFiery |
Apr-02-09 04:55 PM |
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That's great to hear |
Time for change |
Apr-02-09 05:13 PM |
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Yes, the people complaining did NOT have H.S. students enrolled within this course. |
ShortnFiery |
Apr-02-09 06:06 PM |
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Holy crap! |
Wapsie B |
Apr-02-09 05:17 PM |
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Zinn called his opponents "anti-American, narrow-minded and censorial." |
ShortnFiery |
Apr-02-09 06:10 PM |
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Teaching yor child more than one version of history. |
No.23 |
Apr-03-09 11:39 AM |
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