Compare And Contrast Lies My Teacher Told Me And The People History Of United States

From lies of History to reality

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have come to find out that the stories our teachers and historians tell us is different from what truly happened, so that we could feel good about ourselves and believed it had to happen and feel good that it happened. In Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen, and The People History of United States by Howard Zinn, this two authors have studied and compared the history that they know and what teachers teaches students. As Leowen says, “The stories that history textbooks tell are predictable, every

I have learn that in truth, The History of America is always full of important things that happened in which we do not know, but historian and teachers the important and interesting things out in order to please readers. As Loewen Says, “Conversely, textbooks seldom use the past to illuminate the present. They portray the past as a simple-minded morality play. “Be a good citizen” is the message that textbooks extract from the past. “You have a proud heritage. Be all that you can be. After all, look at what the United States has accomplished” (Loewen

“But from this from this text the thing the I found interesting that upon the arrival of Columbus that Indies welcome them with open arms giving them food, parrots, etc. but they were backstab at the very ends that destroy they whole decadence. The most important source that I receive was from ‘in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners’” (Discussion Board 2). And it is truly interesting that humans have not learn from the past, but instead people are growing more wild and becoming brutal killers and