Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.

This book tackles the messy details, reclaims disregarded heroes, and sets the record straight. It also explains why July 4th isn't really Independence Day.

We tend to think of history as settled, set in stone, but American History Revised reveals a past that is filled with ironies, surprises, and misconceptions. Li

"A superior book. . . . Many readers will be surprised to see that today's arguments about history education follow the culture wars that go back to almost the

This book analyzes the common narrative residing in American History textbooks published in the first half of the 19th century. That story, what the author iden