Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. Loewen
β Scribed by Review by: Claire Keller and Stanley M. Burstein
- Book ID
- 124711288
- Publisher
- The Society for History Education
- Year
- 1996
- Weight
- 449 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-2745
- DOI
- 10.2307/494748
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