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04429aam a2200445 i 4500 001 67C7A536A7E711EB98937C0F4BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210428010042 008 180713s2018 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018033738 020 $a 0807759481 020 $a 9780807759486 035 $a (OCoLC)1048660047 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d HRM $d YDX $d AU@ $d OCLCO $d PUL $d OCL $d TLE $d OCL $d NIU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E175.85 $b .L65 2018 082 00 $a 973 $2 23 100 1 $a Loewen, James W. $e author. 245 10 $a Teaching what really happened : $b how to avoid the tyranny of textbooks and get students excited about doing history / $c James W. Loewen. 250 $a Second edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Teachers College Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xvi, 272 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Multicultural education series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : history as weapon -- A lesson from Mississippi -- A lesson from Vermont -- Why history is important to students -- Why history is important to society -- 1. The tyranny of coverage: -- Forests, trees, and twigs -- Winnowing trees -- Deep thinking -- Relevance to the present -- Skills -- Getting the principal on board -- Coping with reasons to teach "as usual" -- You are not alone -- Brining students along -- 2. Expecting excellence: -- Student characteristics affect teacher expectations -- "Standardized" tests affect teacher expectations -- Statistical processes cause cultural bias in "standardized" tests -- Internalizing expectations -- Teachers can create their own expectations -- 3. Historiography: -- A tale of two eras -- The civil rights movement, cognitive dissonance, and historiography -- Studying bad history -- Other ways to teach historiography -- 4. Doing history: -- Doing history to critique history -- Writing a paper -- Bringing families in -- Local history -- Getting started -- Final product -- Using the product -- 5. Truth: -- Background of the problem -- Separating matters of fact from matters of opinion -- Five tests to assess credibility -- 6. How and when do people get here? -- A crash course on archeological issues -- Presentism -- Today's religions and yesterday's history -- Conclusions about presentism -- Chronological ethnocentrism -- Primitive to civilized -- Costs of chronological ethnocentrism -- 7. Why did Europe win? -- The important questions -- Looking around the world -- Explaining civilization -- Making the Earth round -- Why did Columbus win? -- The Columbian exchange -- Ideological results of Europe's victory -- Cultural diffusion and syncretism continue -- 8. The $24 myth: -- Deconstructing the $24 myth -- A more accurate story -- Functions of the fable -- Overt racism? -- Additional considerations -- 9. Slavery: -- Relevance to the present -- Hold a meta-conversation -- Slavery and racism -- Four key problems of slave life -- Additional problems in teaching the history of slavery -- 10. The Confederacy: -- Teachers vote -- Teaching against the State's Rights myth -- Critiquing textbooks -- Our Confederate landscape -- Genesis of the problem -- 11. The Nadir: -- Contemporary relevance -- Onset of the Nadir -- Historical causes of antiracist idealism -- Historical causes of the Nadir of race relations -- Students can reveal the Nadir themselves -- During the Nadir, whites became white -- End of the Nadir -- Implications for today -- Afterword : still more ways to teach history. 651 0 $a United States $x History $v Textbooks. 651 0 $a United States $x Study and teaching. $x Study and teaching. 651 0 $a United States $x Historiography. 650 7 $a Historiography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958221 650 7 $a Education. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00902499 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Textbooks. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423863 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Loewen, James W. $t Teaching what really happened. $b Second Edition. $d New York : Teachers College Press, [2018] $z 9780807777312 $w (DLC) 2018038140 830 0 $a Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.) 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20210428013852.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=67C7A536A7E711EB98937C0F4BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search