Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong

Introduction: something has gone very wrong

1493 : the true importance of Christopher Columbus

The truth about the first Thanksgiving

Red eyes

"Gone with the wind" : the invisibility of racism in American history textbooks

John Brown and Abraham Lincoln : the invisibility of antiracism in American history textbooks

The land of opportunity

Watching Big Brother : what textbooks teach about the federal government

Down the memory hole : the disappearance of the recent past

Progress is our most important product

Why is history taught like this?

Afterword: the future lies ahead

and what to do about them.