Phoenix Book Club: "Lies My Teacher Told Me"

The Phoenix Book Club, Phoenixville Public Library’s virtual book discussion group for adults of all ages, will meet on Zoom Monday, July 13 at 7:00 PM. The group will discuss James W. Loewen’s award-winning, bestselling book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Loewen studies the biases of high school American history class. He begins by noting a strange problem: even though Americans love history (as evidenced by the popularity of historical novels and Hollywood movies), American students hate history classes. The source of the problem, he decides, is the history textbook itself: textbooks give a dull, culturally biased account of the past, often alienating readers (particularly Native Americans, African Americans, Latino, and female readers.

Physical copies of this title may be reserved at https://chesp.na.iiivega.com. Ebook and eAudiobook copies may be reserved at https://chester.overdrive.com. This event is free and open to the public and will be held online on Zoom. If you are not already on the Book Club's e-mail list, registration is required at https://ccls.libcal.com/calendar/Phoenixville/phoenix-book-club to receive the Zoom link. Email mpinto@ccls.org for more information.